Tim – I Need Your Love
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Greetings all
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The record I bring you today is something that has been simmering in the crates for a long time.
I got my hands on ‘I Need Your Love’ by Tim (yes, just Tim…) way back in that multi-thousand record dump, courtesy of my father-in-law.
It’s one of those records that had to grow on me for a while before I really “got” it.
‘I Need Your Love’ has kind of a slow (dare I say, awkward) intro, but things get going pretty quickly, and build up a very nice head of steam.
The piano pushes the rhythm along, and if you slap on the heaphones and listen closely, the guitar is doing some interesting things.
I can tell you absolutely nothing about Tim himself, other than his last name would appear to be Smith, his voice sounds like a smoothed out Wilson Pickett, and that this is a Chicago 45.
Celtex was a label owned by Bill Lasley, which as far as I can tell only issued a few 45s in it’s short (just 1967?) existence, two by bluesman Mighty Joe Young and this 45 by Tim.
The song’s co-writer Vernon Taplin is better known by his stage name ‘Saxie Russell’, the man behind ‘Psychedelic Soul’ on Chicago’s Thomas label.
If you have any more information about Tim, please let me know in the comments.
I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
Holy Cow Larry! What a groovy record.