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Melvin Sparks – Texas Twister

Melvin Sparks – Texas Twister

Melvin Sparks is one of those names that immediately come to mind when listening to funky Soul-Jazz. Whenever Mr. Sparks plays his guitar, there’s a lot of groove and funk in the mix. As a band member, you can experience his Funk guitar skills on the recordings of heavy weight bandleaders like Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson, Charles Kynard or Charles Earland. And, of course, on the albums under his own name – here, all of them from the 70s are hard to recommend.

‚Texas Twister’ is the highlight for me not only because of its rarity, because it was released on Eastbound. But also because of Mr. Sparks own compositions like ‘Whip! Whop!’ or ‘Texas Twister’ – pure Rare Groove with a lot of Soul and Blues. Not to forget: Idris Muhammad sets the beat – who wouldn’t want to groove to that?

 

Stefan Mohr

Stefan Mohr

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