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▄ ▀███▄ Leon Thomas - Blues and the Soulful Truth (1973) ░▄▓██▀ ▄
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▐▓███▀░ DATE.RiPPED...: Oct-04-2004 ▀████▌
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▐▓██▌▄█▀ TRACKS........: 08 ▀█▄▐███▌
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█ 01 Lets Go Down to Lucy 04:24 █
█ 02 L.O.V.E. 02:53 █
█ 03 Gypsy Queen 10:18 █
█ 04 Love Each Other 03:14 █
█ 05 Shape Your Mind to Die 05:20 █
█ 06 Boom Boom Boom 04:51 █
█ 07 China Doll 05:05 █
█ 08 C.C. Rider 06:22 █
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▓ The late Leon Thomas was a vocalist who has proven to ▓
▓ be influential among jazz and blues saxophonists, ▓
▓ guitarists, and pianists, who've admitted their debt ▓
▓ to his innovation. However, though there are many ▓
▓ jazz and blues vocalists who have benefited from his ▓
▓ style as well, he is seldom acknowledged for his ▓
▓ highly original ù and idiosyncratic ù contribution to ▓
▓ them. One can only speculate as to why, though ▓
▓ Thomas' full-throated style which employed everything ▓
▓ from yodels and Joe Turner-ish growls and shouts may ▓
▓ have been too wide for anyone to grasp in its ▓
▓ entirety without overtly sounding as if they were ▓
▓ aping him. At the time of this reissue (2001), the ▓
▓ only other Leon Thomas titles available under his own ▓
▓ leadership were a European best-of collection and the ▓
▓ inferior live album (badly edited), Sunrise on Gold ▓
▓ Mountain. Blues and the Soulful Truth is among the ▓
▓ artist's most enduring performances, either as a ▓
▓ leader or sideman. There is his trademark, ▓
▓ otherworldly modal improvisation on Gabor Szabo's ▓
▓ exotica classic "Gypsy Queen," the deep, greasy ▓
▓ gutbucket, funky blues of "Let's Go Down to Lucy" and ▓
▓ "L-O-V-E," and the traditional tune "C.C. Rider" ù ▓
▓ though Thomas' arrangement is anything but ù among a ▓
▓ lengthy, eight-song set. Perhaps the most revealing ▓
▓ examples of his singularity is his ability to ▓
▓ interpret a song like John Lee Hooker's "Boom, Boom" ▓
▓ as funky, jazzed-out, angular R&B ù enabled mightily ▓
▓ by the saxophone stylings of Pee Wee Ellis and the ▓
▓ criminally under-appreciated pianism of Neal Creque ▓
▓ and the wild violin of John Blair ù after coming out ▓
▓ of a pop-oriented soul tune such as "Love Each ▓
▓ Other," written with a groove prevalent among ▓
▓ commercial jazz and R&B recordings of the time, both ▓
▓ sounding sincere, authentic, and completely full of ▓
▓ the singer's presence. Indeed, on the aforementioned ▓
▓ "Gypsy Queen" or his own "Shape Your Mind to Die," ▓
▓ Thomas inhabits his material fully, as if nobody ever ▓
▓ had ever sung or heard these songs and would ever ▓
▓ sing them again. Also, the production innovation and ▓
▓ percussive touches many of these tunes have yet to be ▓
▓ repeated (Pharoah Sanders, Thomas' previous employer ▓
▓ who introduced the singer to the world, adopted some ▓
▓ of the artist's percussive techniques permanently), ▓
▓ like the firecrackers raining against Airto Moreira's ▓
▓ drums and Larry Coryell's ethereal guitar riffs, or ▓
▓ the use of a "prepared" vibraphone and coat hangers ▓
▓ in "China Doll," as they slip against the singer's ▓
▓ wail and moan, and the elegant stick and brushwork of ▓
▓ Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. In sum, Blues and the ▓
▓ Soulful Truth (Which does echo Oliver Nelson's Blues ▓
▓ and the Abstract Truth in vision as well as title), ▓
▓ is a tour through the depth and dimension of Thomas' ▓
▓ mind-blowing abilities as a singer in a wide range of ▓
▓ African American musical traditions, proving at the ▓
▓ time, and now again, that he was far more than a free ▓
▓ jazz singer. Indeed, the artist not only was a ▓
▓ stylist of originality, but a composer, arranger, ▓
▓ ethnomusicologist, and a singer of startling beauty ▓
▓ and power ù no matter the song. This album is a ▓
▓ singular achievement, even among the fine recordings ▓
▓ in Thomas' own catalogue, and should be considered ▓
▓ first by those curious enough to look into his work ù ▓
▓ you won't be disappointed no matter what you find, ▓
▓ but this one will take you places you never ▓
▓ anticipated going. ▓
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▓ "still diggin" ▓
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