Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Boscoe
Boscoe
(Kingdom Of Chad, 1973; reissued by Numero Group, 2007)
It came from the South Side of Chicago. And it was baaaaad, reckons MOJO messageboarder.
There's little else that can deliver the goods like the crosscurrent betwixt soul, jazz and poetry. Toss in some warm funk if you like. It's a spot where you are free to be human for a while, if nothing else. Within this essential third stream Boscoe was born, like some meeting of souls between Sweet Sweetback's era Earth Wind & Fire, Les Stances A Sophie Art Ensemble Of Chicago and The Watts Prophets, ushering forth in total obscurity an album whose fruits have only recently reached a fraction of the audience it deserves thanks to the kind diggers at Numero Group. Starting off with the cautionary Writin' On The Wall, - bearing the warning, "if you can't read the writin' on the wall, goddamn you, goddamn us all!" - they heat up with the slow funk syncopation of He Keeps You (down, that is... he is The Man after all). Full flight velocity groove is attained in We Ain't Free and there's a great tender ballad, I'm What You Need, that's full of some of the most soulful tag team vocals that've ever fed my ears. Totally connecting, emotional, powerful jazz soul (as opposed to soul jazz). Thank God for Numero Group, or we'd have never gotten hip to its trip.
Scorpiomoon
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 31/08/2010
Further Listening
Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble – On The Beach (Zulu, 1967)
The Watts Prophets – Things Gonna Get Greater: The Watts Prophets 1969-1971 (Water, 2005)
Melvin Van Peebles – Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Stax, 1971)
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Good one, ScoMo.
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