ブッカー・T&ザ・MG'sで活躍したギタリストが69年にリリースしたソロ名義でのファースト・アルバム。アーシーなギターやオルガンがよく歌うソウル・インスト集になっていて、"In The Midnight Hour"など自身の書いたソウル・ヒットも含め、後にMG'sでビートルズに挑むのも頷ける表題曲など、カヴァー中心に小気味良くファンキーな世界を聴かせる。ボートラも8曲収録!
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タワーレコード(2023/10/25)
After years of being a team player, Steve Cropper got to make a solo album for the label he helped put on the map, Stax Records (actually their Volt subsidiary). As you might figure, it turned out as an instrumental soul album, and a darn good one, too. It's a bona fide Telecaster-soaked dance workout, with Cropper turning in signature versions of "Land of a Thousand Dances," "99 1/2," (which features a particularly nasty period fuzz guitar), "Funky Broadway," "Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway," "In the Midnight Hour," and original instrumentals like "Crop Dustin'" and the closer "Rattlesnake." A solid and soulful little side project that holds up quite well years later. ~ Cub Koda
Rovi