it's all good…

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Another track brought to my attention by ck a few years ago: freshly back from a business trip to Los Angeles, he’d managed to squeeze a visit to some vinyl emporium to perform the ritual of the vinyl junkie, getting the fingertips dirty, diggin’ amongst the crates. The album Masterjam was amongst the booty he brought back over the pond and although this song is by no means the only decent track on what is a tidy Quincy Jones produced slab of West Coast disco/soul, it was the first track he played to me from it and is my favourite.

The pictures below are from the Any Love release on twelve that I recently got hold of, which has it spread across one side of vinyl in all it’s analogue glory. I really wish they had released a longer mix rather than just pressing up what was available on the album because as it fades out, it just starts to get going in my opinion, the phrases “There’s an ill wind blowin’, can’t you feel it blowin’?” and “Something’s going on tonight” repeated over each other. It just seems to be revving up, with the promise of the track going to another level. I wonder if Rufus, Chaka or Quincy thought the same and tried to find that way without sucess. More likely they were happy to leave as is – a cautionary song about living life in a fast lane without appreciating the view before the scenary changes.

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