Junior Parker - Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Parker

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Rythm & Blues , Funk Soul Groove

Sortie : 1971

By Andrew Male  from http://www.mojo4music.com



Herman Parker Jr. was born at the heart of the blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1932. He died tragically young, from a brain tumour in 1971. In between, he produced some of the most soulful
blues of the ’50s and ’60s. Mentored by Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin’ Wolf and talent-spotted by Ike Turner, Parker started out as Little Junior who, with The Blue Flames cut the riotous
Feelin’ Good and the eerie Mystery Train for Sun Records. Parker’s downhome late-’50s sides for Duke brought him success but when he moved away from hard blues he lost his audience. As a result,
most scholars tend to write off Parker’s later, more soulful sound. This is a shame as his final recordings contain some of the most warm-heated sunshine soul of the period. Cratediggers rate
this album (alt. titled Outside Man in its Capitol incarnation) because of Sonny Lester’s clear production, and in-the-pocket groove from Jimmy McGriff’s soul-jazz combo and Parker’s three
Beatles tracks – Taxman, Tomorrow Never Knows and Lady Madonna – where the singer’s good-hearted character cuts through the clichés, even going so far as to blanche at the meanness of George
Harrison’s lyrics on Taxman (“Oh, this is awful!”). Also worth tracking down is Parker’s glorious cover of Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away from the same period; an epic spoken-word reworking
of the Willie Nelson country classic that deserves to sit alongside such other soul overhauls of white radio standards as Isaac Hayes’ By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Bobby Womack’s cover of The
Carpenters’ Close To You.



Tracklist :

01 - Love Ain’t Nothin’ But a Business Goin’ On

02 - The Outside Man

03 - Darling Depend on Me

04 - Taxman

05 - Rivers Invitation

06 - I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone

07 - Just to Hold My Hand

08 - You Know I Love You

09 - Lady Madonna

10 - Tomorrow Never Knows