Successful R & B album of the Clash drummer

The Clash is now connects at first not necessarily R & B black characters, but you think about the album London Calling or on one or the other number on Sandinista then no longer affects this association so obscure. But no later than at Rock The Casbah is a clear that there is a latent R & B musicians were infected within the band of that song at that time also composed, namely drummer Topper Headon.

After his expulsion from the band, it took a few years until he was again in control, but in 1986 then appeared Headons first and so far also the only solo album, on which he indulged his love of R & B violently and extremely successful. Of course, no one wanted to listen to what at that time in the UK from the R & B retro sound that has this album; From today's perspective we must say that this album is far better aged, as eg. the complete output of Big Audio Dynamite.

Noteworthy here: apart from the Booker T. & The MGs cover Time Is Tight (which comes here much more groovy than on the Calsh version of Black Market Clash) originate all tracks from Headon himself and sound yet as you would from a Black Artist of Stax or Motown added to the late 60s. This also applies to the reggae-influenced track Dancin, of a abolut Soul Excessive feeling spread despite the Jamaican rhythm. As a singer committed Headon for this album the soul singer Jimmy Helms whose voice stands in the tradition of shouters like Edwin Starr, or Wilson Pickett.

The funky and revamped with brass opener Leave It To Luck can also be good from Tower Of Power imagine Ill Give You Everything sounds like a Northern Soul dance tracks and even this disc would then probably can super score with mods.

Dance bar, excellently arranged (no trace of 80s sound rubbish!) And composed awarded is Waking Up an album on the Headon itself can be proud of 30 years later still. What a pity that there is no longer came, but after the disk went down commercially like a stone, had probably Mercury no longer interested in further output of you have to say it sometimes excellent ex-Clash drummer.

Whoever gets this disc on any flea market or at a thrift store in the fingers, which should necessarily strike more than a few euros will he for not have to shell out (on CD the part appeared only briefly once in the early 00s years in an obscure Universal series, which could be ordered via Internet Direct).