Driving Wheel (Vinyl LP) Latin & WorldThe legendary Little Junior Parker is considered more of an R&B stylist with distinct blues leanings than a true blues artist. He could sing in a harder yet soulful R&B style and then switch to a smoother sound sometimes reminiscent of the great Charles Brown, or Bobby "Blue" Bland. As consistently modern a bluesman as he insisted on being, he'd placed his Sonny Boy Williamson influenced harmonica interjections on the back burner to emphasize his
At the start of this period
as the band members freely cherry-pick from a vast orchard of influences
reaching # 46 on the Billboard R&B chart
what we find here captures a more stark and stripped-back The Underground Youth as the project was about to come out of its embryonic phase: "All five tracks were recorded in my bedroom and I really wanted to strip back the sound
Expansion have taken a 80s soul classic and released it for the first time as a single together with a brand new version
solos at length on the opening "Driva' Man
One of the finest soul albums of 1974 featuring amongst others Could This Be Love
this time the band tell tales of a more personal nature
and The Bug organised a killer collab
It doesn't matter if you get down to soul music in leather soled slicks or sneakers
performing and producing the whole project
Bobby Lee's "worn-denim psych-country" remains
