Party Jive You Can Live In
Black music’s gettin’ good again. Never was completely bad, but’s fallen a long way from the pinnacles of 65-8 when Motown and Stax were truly cooking and, f'rinstance, Stevie Wonder was serving up heartthrobbers like “I Was Made to Love Her” steada (still fine, but) earnest mellowtoned channels such as “He’s Misstra Know-It-All.”
Party Jive You Can Live In
JAMES BRQWN Soul Classics Vol. 2 (Poly dor)
THE JB's Doin' It To Death (People)
THE NEW BIRTH Birth Day , (RCA)
Black music’s gettin’ good again. Never was completely bad, but’s fallen a long way from the pinnacles of 65-8 when Motown and Stax were truly cooking and, f'rinstance, Stevie Wonder was serving up heartthrobbers like “I Was Made to Love Her” steada (still fine, but) earnest mellowtoned channels such as “He’s Misstra Know-It-All.” “Serious” white rock was a rotten influence on corporate black music, and when the black artists themselves (led by Slyand Stevie) demanded more artistic freedom from the cartels it just compounded the bushwah becuz if it wasn’t psychedelic shackles it was kozmo/ekologic lyrics and self-indulgence ran bubonic cross the land.