It is, too.
The great Chicagoan soul singer in full effect over two decades.
Geezers, this time, no groups or female singers. Old friends reinforced by series debuts from the likes of Herman Moore, Dan Brantley, Roy Lee Johnson and Anon, sticking close to the golden years, 1966-8.
Twenty-five tracks drawn from the golden era of Motown, 1961-1968: fifteen of them never released before.
Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Marv Johnson, The Temptations and The Four Tops will be familiar names, though the recordings here are rare; The Hit Pack, The Serenaders and Gino Parks will maybe ring a bell; Michael Thomas and Johnny Earl will require this introduction.
Capitol and Motown sides.
Basically covering 1962-65 — the Steal Away album, some sevens, and some ace unissued stuff, not least the Dan Penn composition Have You Done Got Over Me.
His last two albums for Ko Ko, from 1976 and ‘77, a kind of curtains for vintage Muscle Shoals soul.
A songwriting mainstay of FAME from 1968 to 1972 — monsters like Candi’s Evidence — George was also a very fine singer, unmannered, hurt, open. The first of several volumes.
Terrific southern soul from the guy who wrote a string of killers as staff at Goldwax, and for Candi Staton and Clarence Carter, at Fame. The Only Way Is Up is his song; and The Osmonds’ One Bad Apple.