My, but this is some funky stuff. It's got sublime horns, dirty guitar, screams (as James Brown once inquired, "Can I scream, brother?"), and it was produced by Curtis Mayfield-- 'nuff said. Check out the picture--the muu-muu, the Picture Cook Book. So awesome. I love the references in "Mighty Mighty"--red beans & rice, oxtail, Thunderbird, etc. James Thomas Ramey, aka Baby Huey, hailed from Richmond, Indiana (see, it isn't just the land of Larry Bird and John Mellencamp). Unfortunately, he was a rock 'n roll casualty, in 1970, at the tender age of 26. "I'm big Baby Huey, and I'm 400 pounds of soul. I'm like fried chicken, girls, I'm finger-lickin' good." Mmm-hmm.
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