Mel Brown - Chicken Fat (Verve By Request Series)

Tracklist

Chicken Fat 4:11

Greasy Spoon 5:52

Home James 6:31

Anacrusis 2:30

Hobo Flats 2:16

Shanty 4:40

Sad But True 5:01

I'm Goin' To Jackson 4:23

Slalom 4:26

Notes: Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Guitarist Mel Brown's 1967 Impulse! Debut is possibly the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. His clean blues picking style - honed while playing in John Lee Hooker's and T-Bone Walker's bands - marinates funkily with the swinging soul-jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins. The title track and the simmering lament of "I'm Goin' to Jackson" standout. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes.