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Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Love Jones (1980) [1996, Remastered Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 30 Apr 2017 18:01:59

From 1974 through 1980, Johnny "Guitar" Watson was on a tear no one, including George Clinton or Bootsy Collins, could equal. While the P-Funk machine began to run out of steam by 1978 - with the exception of the Brides of Funkenstein - Watson kept churning out the weird, kinky funk well into the era of Rick James. Love Jones, his last fine record for quite awhile, had all the trademarks in place: the choppy, heavily reverbed and wah-wahed guitar that had made Watson a blues sensation, the sci-fi keyboards, the handclap that Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards ripped off for Chic, the expandable horn section that intertwined with the guitar riffs, and the punched up basic basslines that kept the funk a simple but ultimately moving thing. It's true that some of the crazy lyrics that graced Ain't That a Bitch had given way to chanted clichés by this time, but it hardly mattered since Watson was making music for discos and clubs, and not for radio play any longer. He got hip to the fact that if you wanted to break a record you had to get a club DJ to play the hell out of it. Here, the standouts are "Booty Ooty," the truly weird and wonderful "Goin' Up in Smoke," "Telephone Bill," and the hilarious - and extremely funky - "Lone Ranger." This may have been the last real winner in Watson's catalog for a long time, but there is plenty of magic still present in these grooves.

~Review by Thom Jurek

Release of the album: 1980 [LP DJM Records, Cat.# DJM-31, USA]
Release of this CD: 1996, February, 26 [CD Sequel Records (UK), Cat.# NEM CD 779 / UPC: 5023224077929]
℗© 1980 Wilma Records.
This reissue ℗© 1996 Sequel Records.
Original sound recordings produced by Wilma Records under exclusive license to Castle Communications Plc.
Made in England

Credits:

Arranged By, Written-By – Johnny Guitar Watson
Art Direction [Agi] – Mike Doud
Co-producer [Production Assistance] – Emry Thomas
Coordinator [Album Coordination] – Tasha Watson
Design – Mary Francis
Engineer – Dennis Moody, Frank Nadasdy, Roger Dollarhide, Romie Lovrich
Photography – Tom Gibson
Producer – Johnny Guitar Watson

Tracklist:

01. Booty Ooty (05:27)
02. Love Jones (04:47)
03. Going Up In Smoke (05:31)
04. Close Encounters (06:38)
05. Asante Sana (01:51)
06. Telephone Bill (04:45)
07. Lone Ranger (06:33)
08. Jet Plane (03:42)
09. Children Of The Universe (05:07)

EAC log

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EAC extraction logfile from 10. March 2010, 20:17

Johnny Guitar Watson / Love Jones

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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.20 dB -14.15 dB 5:27 01-Booty Ooty
DR12 -0.59 dB -15.26 dB 4:47 02-Love Jones
DR12 -2.03 dB -15.88 dB 5:31 03-Going Up In Smoke
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DR14 -1.04 dB -18.14 dB 3:43 08-Jet Plane
DR13 -0.26 dB -15.96 dB 5:08 09-Children Of The Universe
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Official DR value: DR13

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