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Marc Bolan- Marc Bolan Presents: THE SOUL SESSIONS- 2CD- 2015-
- Light Of Love/Easy Action Recordings Ltd.- 5060446070444- 400 grn
Marc Bolan’s atempts to establish and, in some ways, reinvent himself as a fount of seventies soul authenticity always fell some way short of capturing the public imagination. Both at the time, as he wrestled with his own commercial decline post-1973, and in more recent years (Edsel’s acclaimed reissue campaign in the 1990s), his work with Gloria Jones, her brother Richard Jones and Sister Pat Hall either went ignored (Jones’s Vixen album) or was left altogether unreleased. There was a minor hit for Bolan and Jones’s mawkish duet through “To Know You is To Love You,” and a spot of applause for his production of her take on “Dock of the Bay,” but mention Jones’s name to most people, and she was the creator of the original “Tainted Love,” long, long before. And even that was known only in Northern Soul circles, even after Soft Cell topped the charts with a cover of it. So, a two CD compilation of out-takes, broadcast versions, home recordings and masters should be of interest only to the most open-minded Bolan completists, right? Wrong. Lovingly curated in a manner that too few Bolan collections ever are, THE SOUL SESSIONS is an object lesson both in how seriously Bolan took his soul, and how good he was at creating it. Of course he was writer or cowriter of all but a handful of tracks, but he was also responsible for rearranging familiar Bolan boogies (“Get It On,” “Jitterbug Love,” “Sunken Rags,” “Sailors of the Highway”) to match all that his artists could bring to them. Gloria Jones’s voice, after all, was a thing of wonder, and Pat Hall wasn’t far behind (Richard Jones, less so, but he’s only here for four of the twenty-eight tracks), and though the gam rock faithful might raise an eyebrow, it was not difficult for either to mine the soulful roots in even Bolan’s classics. Hall’s breathily smooth “Get It On” oozes Philly purity, while her “When I Was a Child” i the best Three Degrees song that the trio never made. At the same time, Jones’s revamped “Tainted Love” packs all the playful energy you’d expect from Bolan, while Jones also gives “Go Now” a good run for its over-familiar money. In fact, it’s only when Bolan is trying too hard to be “relevant” that things get a little much - “Drive Me Crazy (Disco Lady)” was probably annoying before he even wrote it, and Jones’s impassioned squawking does not improve it one iota. If your love of Bolan ends at any time prior to the release of Tanx, THE SOUL SESSIONS probably won’t have you leaping around the room with excitement. But if his own efforts to embrace soul and R&B across his own compositions mean anything at all to you, this is a powerful, and much needed package. Great liners, too.
Each Disc Comes In A Individual Card Jacket And Housed In A Foldout Cardboard Sleeve Includes 28 Page Book.
Made In The UK.
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