J.J. Barnes - Best of
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Artist: J.J. BarnesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Music Label: Connoisseur
Soundtracks:
- Baby Please Come Back Home
- Chains Of Love
- Forgive Me
- Now That I Got You Back
- Hold On To It
- Now She's Gone
- Sad Day A Coming
- I'll Keep Coming Back
- Our Love Is In The Pocket
- So Called Friends
- Now She's Gone
- Got To Get Rid Of You
- Snowflakes
- Sweet Sherry
- Help Me Help Me
- I Need A Change
- Welcome To The Club
Music reviews of Best of
Music Review: excellent
Rating: 4 Stars
The vast majority of Baby Come Back To Me, this JJ Barnes compilation, is Northern Soul. This music had neither the hard grit of Stax or the sweet pop sense of Motown. If you remember popular tracks like "Move On Up" by the Esquires or "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" by Tyrone Davis, this gives you a marker where JJ Barnes stood musically
And it is great music. Some strings, lots of vibraphones, melodic but not to sappy--open sounds. A few of these tracks fall just a little on the sugar side, but even these maintain a groove spine.
Then, in the middle of Baby Comes Back To Me, the most surreal thing happens. "So Called Friends." George Clinton somehow got hold of JJ around 1968 or 1969 and produced this track--some of the meanest, nastiest acid funk this side of Hendrix. I can't be sure but I think the back up here was soon to be Funkidelic troops. Either way, you have to get this if only for this track
Then like a tornado, "So Called Friends" is gone and its back to soulville. Is JJ winking? "Let's pretend I never got down into the psychedelic bada-s gutter."
Ok, sure. But we all know he did, and good as the rest of this elegant music is, I wish George had taken JJ slummin', just a few more times.
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