Sunday follows a country slide guitar bluesing all over a gospel rhyme about 'people walkin round the church so proud and still singin..' and so on sung in a rap styled verse before the belting out of Sunday in that spirit of a new day. These type of observation songs were popular in the wake of the Beatles in the mid 60s such as Pleasant Sunday Morning describing the characters and scenes around them and the oddness in the normalcy. But it's the funkified groove created by the slide guitar's chicken pickin note lines that fire up the track between the singer's slick bars.
Sunday 18 March 2018
Blue Mink (1972) Sunday - LOST 70s GEMS
Here are some Gems from British novelty act and quite excellent early 70s Bubblegum Soul outfit, Blue Mink's 1972's A Time of Change; think the Fifth Dimension or a really pop friendly Sly and Family Stone. John Brown's Down is memorable for it's brusque, fat fuzz toned guitar strikes in this gurning attempt at reggae with forced Caribbean delivery. One Smart Fellow a slow build of a sample ready, funky afro drum beat and sliding blues guitar licks played with some James Brown Eddie Hazel feel. Eventually plummeting organs and some soulful dual vocals singin a nursery rhyme about One Smart Fellow, three Smart fellows etc like 'Green Sally up and Green Sally down. Lift and Squat, gotta tear the ground'
Sunday follows a country slide guitar bluesing all over a gospel rhyme about 'people walkin round the church so proud and still singin..' and so on sung in a rap styled verse before the belting out of Sunday in that spirit of a new day. These type of observation songs were popular in the wake of the Beatles in the mid 60s such as Pleasant Sunday Morning describing the characters and scenes around them and the oddness in the normalcy. But it's the funkified groove created by the slide guitar's chicken pickin note lines that fire up the track between the singer's slick bars.
Sunday follows a country slide guitar bluesing all over a gospel rhyme about 'people walkin round the church so proud and still singin..' and so on sung in a rap styled verse before the belting out of Sunday in that spirit of a new day. These type of observation songs were popular in the wake of the Beatles in the mid 60s such as Pleasant Sunday Morning describing the characters and scenes around them and the oddness in the normalcy. But it's the funkified groove created by the slide guitar's chicken pickin note lines that fire up the track between the singer's slick bars.
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