Freddie Robinson, Guitar and Vocals   “Off the Cuff” (1973)   Enterprise Records (Stax)   With Wilton Felder (Bass), Monk Higgins (Electric Piano also Producer, Arranger and Conductor), Joe Sample (Keyboards), Harold Mason (Drums), Red Holloway (Tenor Sax) and George Bohannon (Trombone).   Darlene Love adds to the backing vocals.   Art Direction by Ron Gorden, Artwork by Edwin Murrell

After playing blues guitar on Chess studio recordings with Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter, Robinson played in Jerry Butler’s band from 1963-67. He also worked with Syl Johnson and then moved to Los Angeles to be part of Ray Charles’ outfit.

(“Off the Cuff” was sampled by Ice T in “Pulse of the Rhyme”)

1. Off the cuff       2. Georgia on my mind       3. Could it be I’m falling in love       4. Smoking       5. Medicine man       6. River’s invitations       7. Changing dreams       8. Try it one time       9. You’re on my mind       10. You never ever miss away       11. I remember

(Also check out “The Coming Atlantis on World Pacific)

(41 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)

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Livio Romano   Columbia Records

(43 votes, average: 3.77 out of 5)

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Robo Arigo Sexy Thing Nigerian funk from 1982.   Check out Comb and Razor – a cool music site which has done posts on this and other rare grooves.

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(48 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5)

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The Spotnicks President Records EP

(111 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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Van Wood   “Intorno al Mondo”   Fonit Records (Italy)   (Special thanks to Ulf in Sweden)   Love it!

(44 votes, average: 2.86 out of 5)

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“So…Rindo Ze Fidelis”   Continental Records

(54 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

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This is a great, hard-to-find John Lee Hooker lp recorded in 1971 and released in 1973 on ABC. “Going Down” features rockers Van Morrison and Elvin Bishop, while the other numbers include great r&b and jazz session guys like John Klemmer, Cliff Coulter, Mel Brown, Don “sugarcane” Harris, etc. But the highlight for me is a the first song on the second side – Younger Stud

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The cover photo is by Al Kramer and designed by Ruby Mazur.

All I wore in the early 1970’s were high-top Converse like these.

(26 votes, average: 3.62 out of 5)

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Hector and the Mediators   Philips Records (France)     Get it?   The Mediators? – “working it out”? – the Mediators?

Check out the guy on the left and that cool guitar!

(66 votes, average: 4.30 out of 5)

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Freddie Robbinson   “The Coming Atlantis”   With Orchestration by Monk Higgins.   World Pacific Records.   Freddie cut his teeth with Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf on classic Chess recordings such as “Spoonful” and “Mean Ol’ Frisco” in the late fifties and early sixties before taking the spotlight on this, his first album as a leader in 1968.   This Lp was later reissued with the title “Black Fox”, one of the cuts included and heard here.

(50 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

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