Listen/Download The Phinxs – Street Jam Pts 1&2

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Greetings all

Welcome to yet another week in the ongoing saga of wax (and wane).

The record I bring you today is something that has been simmering in my New Orleans crates for years, waiting for just the right opportunity to reveal its charms.

Back in the day, when my collection wasn’t quite as healthy as it is now I often cast my dragnet wide, seeing what I might dredge up by focusing on entire labels, cities etc.

As my record room can attest today, this method was especially fruitful in regard to both Philadelphia and the great city of New Orleans.

I had already gotten my hands on Eddie Bo’s ‘Hook and Sling’ and kept my eyes peeled for anything else that might turn up on the Scram label, named for its owner, seafood entrepreneur Al Scramuzza.

Over the years, I managed to find the good (Sonny Jones ‘Sissy Walk’) and the not so good (Ray Brackens ‘Do the Crawfish’), but the Phinxs ‘Street Jam’ was one of the most perplexing.

Basically a keyboard driven (piano and organ) R&B instro, with some horns, ‘Street Jam’ seems less like a stab at the charts than a representation of a tried and true stage jam committed to vinyl.

I have never been able to discover anything about the Phinxs (I’m assuming that the name was pronounced like ‘Finks’), other than the fact that ‘Street Jam’ was released in 1965 (only the second 45 on Scram) and the the band went on later that year to back singer Richie Matta on his 45 for the label.

If anyone has the skinny on the Phinxs, please drop me a line.

I hope you dig the tune,and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

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