It's a long game.

Me too! First Mercury Rev album is still my fave!

Very much so, although in this case the fact that it was originally an Aztec Camera song was enough to pique my interest!

Anyone who's into that will also understand how and why bands like Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong evolved. And then how the French scene started to produce it's own jazz with Sclavis, Texier, Humier, Portal and others. Great period in music, shame it all disappeared.

At your SCHOOL!?! I wish I'd gone to your school! This is magnificent btw. Thank you so much! x

VERY kind of you Tim! If you do indeed struggle, you hide it very well. x

I might go and look for him but I'm so comfortable here.

Same but with Mumbo!

Yes! It's perfect isn't it?!

Sometimes those records have a bit of magic to them that is really hard to explain. Another example is A Deh Pon Dem by The Soulettes (Rita Marley plus some Wailers I think) made out of The Miracles’ Choosey Beggar. There’s a tone - not melancholy, not sweet - that I don’t think we have a word for.

Nice write up! 👌

Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady.

The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here...

www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...

I’ll actually be in Liverpool on Thursday, at Waterstones, so you can even drop one off in person!

Absolutely. Do you still have my email?