Junior Parker - Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On (1970) [2007]

One of the funkiest albums ever from Junior Parker – a great little set that shows he had a lot more to offer than just the average bluesman! The album's got a nice little soul sound in the backings – tight rhythms from Horace Ott, who nicely avoids a lot of the cliches that the blues business was hitting at the time – in order to keep Junior in hip territory that's filled with breaking drums and heavy basslines! There's a few key crossover tracks here, plus some surprisingly sweeter numbers – and the album's a gem through and through – well-appreciated by new generations over the years, thanks to its diversity of tracks! Titles include a great break version of "Taxman" – plus two more Beatles numbers, "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Lady Madonna" – and the tracks "Outside Man", "Darling Depend On Me", "You Know I Love You", "River's Invitation", and "Just To Hold My Hand".

Tracks:

01 Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On 03:21
02 The Outside Man 03:15
03 Darling Depend On Me 03:45
04 Taxman 03:45
05 The River's Invitation 02:47
06 I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone 03:41
07 Just To Hold My Hand 03:53
08 You Know I Love You 03:39
09 Lady Madonna 02:15
10 Tomorrow Never Knows 03:25