Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – Soul Food
Rex Garvin (ctr) and the Mighty Cravers
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Greetings all
We’ve all made it to the end of another week, so raise your glass and dig (the music, that is).
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The tune I bring you to close out the week is an early one from the catalog of one of my all-time favorite soul groups, Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers.
Mr Garvin and his fellow cats were in fact responsible for one of my soulful Top 5, that being ‘I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor)’, one of the mightiest of all soul 45s, and a record guaranteed to get me shaking like a tomato aspic.
Today’s selection hails from nineteen and sixty three, when Rex was waxing heaters for the Keynote label.
While it is not the relentless head-banger that ‘I Gotta Go Now’ is, it is still quite groovy, mainly because it is a fine addition to the long list of “soul food” records.
That is in fact entitled ‘Soul Food’ only shortens the distance between two point, that being the space between the internet and your hungry ears.
While Rex engages in a somewhat reckless rhyme scheme – matching up ‘potato salad’ and ‘drive me mad’ – the buffet he lays out is a tasty one indeed.
You can file this one on the big bridge between R&B and pure soul (leaning in the later direction), and I assure you that were you to drop this for a room full of well lubricated dancers your efforts would be rewarded with flights of terpsichorean madness.
I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Great write-up, Larry. You know, though, I hear some of that rock ‘n’ roll in the sound as well. Admittedly, labels can get kind of blurry.
Absolutely, especially in ’61-’63. I was thinking the other day about the division in the 60s between gospel influenced soul and stuff that reaches back to pure R&B and jump jazz.
Balance this against some of the stuff from the same period by the Impressions. Both “soul” but two distinct threads.
“Shakin’ like tomato aspic.” Nice!