True Confessions / Suzie (Vinyl 7") hextom-test

True Confessions / Suzie (Vinyl 7") hextom-test

Best known for the hit single Woke Up This Morning

It's got that full bodied production of this golden era - layering strings seamlessly with a busty brass section and a flute line that even the most hardened can't help but smile at

Tambourine Man

edgy rock and funk

and rodgers and hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous

On this wonderful effort with pianist Oscar Peterson

Now who gunna diss him

house and funk - it's a DIY

these 11 deeply personal

Featured here are serious funk and rocksteady tunes from the likes of The Skatalites and Johnny Osbourne through to Jamaican jazz from masters such as Tommy McCook and Byron Lee

and (on three of the seven numbers) Zakir Hussain on tabla

' where the singer drives home the ultimate cliche of "I was just doing my job / Working overtime