Catching a Trick on the Street
This has been an engaging enough musical diversion today,
the instrumentals of JJ Johnson providing generic disco-funk and latenight lounge-jazz
that aurally tricks us into sensing the visual street and other scenes you’d imagine
if not having seen the film. I have no recollection that I have.
Bobby Womack provides his unique brand of grizzled soul’n’funk
with tracks like Quicksand, Do It Right
and Hang on in There, but his other
two contributions grace the whole with real class, the acoustic guitar layered If You Don’t Want My Love, his voice crackling
in emotion, and the wonderful title track that epitomises the supercool disco sound
of this time, a memorably sweet chorus carried upwards with its soul-strings,
wrapped in funk beats.
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