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All different, all great (or almost all!!)...

collegemoney | 12/29/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was the last of the "Doin' the Mod" comps I tried out, the reason being mainly that I didn't know many of the artists and didn't see most of their stuff out there at auctions for big prices. Well, what a mistake! The variety here is really too wide to throw any hat over. I'm not sure it's all any certain type of dance music, but what a marvellous collection of pure music, theme or not. What is fairly common throughout are some fabulous sawing saxaphones and keyboards driving,and I mean driving, the music along, a la Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames' stuff.

I'm glad Tawney Reed's "I've Got a Feelin" is at the end, otherwise I would never get past my multiple playings of it and never hear the other stuff. With increasing despair, Tawny naively interprets some pretty obvious signs that her love affair is on the rocks. Yep, Tawney, changed locks and phone numbers do usually spell the end.

Also noteworthy is Timebox's "Soul Sauce" instrumental with tinkling vibraphone (by the multi-talented Ollie Halsall I do believe), stand it next to any soul instrumental, Booker T and the MG's you name it. How this band didn't make a bigger splash is incomprehensible. And Tony Colton's smoky "Run Pony Rider" is as good as any of his more sought after items. And, the honking sax on "Nevertheless" I would compare favorably to one of my favorite tunes "Thunder and Lightning" by Audience (available on their CD "Lunch").

One perhaps minor complaint, I couldn't quite relate to Peter Jay's version of "Parchman Farm" -- a bit too light a treatment of this seminal blues standard. But, as I say, pretty minor all in all."