James Taylor Quartet – Don’t Mess With Mr T
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James Taylor’s trademark howling Hammond sound is featured to fine effect on his new Dome album, Don’t Mess With Mr T: James Taylor Quartet Plays Motown, a storming set of Motown covers featuring guest lead vocalists Omar, Hil St Soul, and Donna Gardier
This 12-tune collection kicks off with an explosive version of Barrett Strong’s Money (That’s What I Want). The rest of the album certainly builds from its opener, with the funky vibe continuing through Marvin Gaye’s Got To Give It U,; Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours), Shorty Long’s Function At The Junction, Jimmy Mack, Machine Gun, Ashford and Simpson’s You’re All I Need To Get By, Jr Walker’s Cleo’s Mood , and Don’t Mess With Mr T, a Marvin Gaye tune written for the blaxploitation movie, Trouble Man.
Album highlights include After The Dance on which Omar, the father of nu-classic British soul, lends his immense vocal talents; Come See About Me, featuring Donna Gardier, one of the UK’s most soulful voices; and Smokey Robinson’s You Beat Me To The Punch, with the magnificent Hil St Soul, a regular on the US Billboard R&B charts, providing inspiring vocals.
Audio Samples >
Function At The Junction
Cleo’s Mood
You Beat Me To The Punch
Track Listing >
1.Money (That’s What I Want)
2.Got To Give It Up
3.Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
4.Function At The Junction
5.After The Dance – feat Omar
6.Jimmy Mack
7.Machine Gun
8.Come See About Me – feat Donna Gardier
9.Cleo’s Mood
10.You Beat Me To The Punch – feat Hil St Soul
11.You’re All I Need To Get By
12.Don’t Mess With Mr T
