Classic New Orleans rhythm and blues, same cloth as Lee Dorsey and Ernie K Doe, before funk got a hold.

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‘So it is that Honest Jon’s has (again) unearthed an episode of black music history in Britain: these are tough cuts — in no way easy listening, but absolutely essential’ (**** The Observer).

A Hamlet moment two hours long.

The bees-knees in heart-broken, close-harmony, symphonic soul; up there with the very best of The Delfonics, The Stylistics and co. Nearly all ballads, with Billy Brown’s falsetto in devastating form, though that’s Harry Ray leading their all-time-classic To You With Love — as sampled by Dilla at the end of Donuts — in all the straight-up glory of its original setting.