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Lowell Fulsom - Lovemaker (1978)

Track listing:
  1. When Things Go Wrong 3:27
  2. Love Her With A Feeling 2:54
  3. Your One Success Is On Me 4:06
  4. I Am Not Worried 2:57
  5. Lovemaker 3:14
  6. Bending Like A Willow Tree 3:15
  7. Get The Cash And Let The Credit Go 3:08
  8. My Mind Is Trying To Leave Me Too 4:23
  9. Price For Love [Bonus] 3:21
  10. All I Want Is For You To Love Me [Bonus] 3:08

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A bit later than some of Lowell Fulsom's funk work for Kent Records -- but a set that's almost more vintage overall! The album's recorded for the short-lived Big Town imprint -- a late 70s venue that took older R&B artists back to the sounds of a few decades before -- never too rootsy, thanks to the style of production -- but with less attempt to crossover to a contemporary audience than the artists might have used on another label.

There is a fair bit of heavy guitar in the 70s -- a kind of post-blues revival feel that comes on loud and clear, and which sounds especially great on the title track "Lovemaker", which almost has a funky "Tramp" groove at the bottom! Other cuts include "Bening Like A Willow Tree", "Get The Cash & Let The Credit Go", "My Mind Is Trying To Leave Me Too", "When Things Go Wrong", and "I Am Not Worried". CD features 2 bonus tracks -- "Price For Love" and "All I Want Is For You To Love Me".

Lovemaker is not the most exciting Lowell Fulson album by a long shot. But it's respectable soul-blues, and not as inappropriately polished as the usual late-'70s recordings by blues veterans. Actually, Fulson was more in the straight-ahead blues bag by this time than he had been on his mid- to late-'60s soul-influenced records, including a couple of revivals of "It Hurts Me Too" (retitled "When Things Go Wrong") and "Sittin' on Top of the World" (retitled "I Am Not Worried").

The accent is on good-natured, straightforward urbane blues, the backing less passionate than Fulson's vocals, the groove sticking mostly to the mid-tempo, getting into mild funk here and there, particularly on the title track. All of the tracks from Lovemaker are on the Ace CD compilation The Final Kent Years, which also includes his 1968 album Now!, a 1972 single, and three previously unissued cuts from around the time of the Now! sessions.

01. When Things Go Wrong
02. Love Her With A Feeling
03. Your One Success Is On Me
04. I Am Not Worried
05. Lovemaker
06. Bending Like A Willow Tree
07. Get The Cash And Let The Credit Go
08. My Mind Is trying To Leave Me Too
09. Price For Love [Bonus]
10 - All I Want Is For You To love Me [Bonus]