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艺人

Junior Walker

语种

英语

厂牌

Motown

发行时间

1965年02月14日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Andrew Hamilton

Junior Walker's debut remains highly explosive decades after it first detonated. The seductive &Cleo's Mood& and the syncopated &Cleo's Back& reveal a musical, funky fascination with a fickle chick name Cleo. On &Shotgun& an opening gun blast grabs your attention. Junior's gritty vocal alternates leads with his torrid tenor sax play. He kicks it up another notch on &Shake and Fingerpop.& The screeching sax and the opening lyrics are hookers: put on your wig, woman; we're going out to shake and fingerpop. The swaying &Do the Boomerang& finds Walker relaxed and shadowed by All Star Willie Woods on vocals. The biggest surprise: Holland-Dozier-Holland's &I'm a Road Runner&; on paper, the collaboration seems ridiculous, but in the studio the combo created industrial-strength soul. An uncredited baritone sax player plays soulful low riffs countering Junior's sharper, more emphatic sax squeals. With so much going on, &Shoot Your Shot& got overlooked by many, and that's too bad; it's a dancer, with instructions, featuring Walker's tenor blowing on top an organ flavored rhythm bed. Only his greatest-hits compilations and Road Runner reign supreme over this scorcher.