I return while MM & TM take a summer sojourn… :)

DEL JONES’ POSITIVE VIBES - Court Is Closed - USA 1972

Wholly wooly jaywhozhefatfunkprowess! This monster slab should be playing in any and every house-n-haus across the world’s whorls for a few weeks straight. Nothing seems to be able to touch the infinite layers of sheer power and insouciance that this recording provides. In many senses, this is the truly hopping end of the spectrum that has to be called simply, and unequivocally, incomparable. Even I, who slather usually with a poised dagger for a tongue when it comes to these things of writ and gush.. well, I am at a loss to say more than the most banal remarks along the lines of: this album, in toto, jams hard and fast throughout, maintaining a cheerful outlook and forward-thinking slant alongside tracks that barrel along and pummel every head-bopping, toe-tapping, body-movin’, and the cerebral “I can’t believe this is happening..” senses you got. Must needs hear the revered psych mix of this! The soul version is something to sop up nice and tight up on your hot biscuits like gravy. Also, not only does this thing cook like Emeril on steroids, live on Iron Chef with 5 arms, there is a rocking element that cannot be overlooked, structure, indescribable heft, intelligence and infectiousness are the main salient traits of this magnificently beating and heaving with hot-breathing beast.

Outcome:

A fookin’ M-U-S-T for everyone!
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::13/15 - Stone-Cold Classic::