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As the monkey pointed out when Night Owls released their first post Versions LP single, Cramp Your Style, the L.A. funky reggae supergroup certainly aren’t resting on their laurels after their first set of covers. And the second single finds them going deeper than ever, rebooting The Flamingos dreamy 1959 doo-wop cut I Only Have Eyes For You inna sweetly
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NIGHT OWLS: I Only Have Eyes For You (feat. CHRIS DOWD & TIPPA LEE) b/w Live And Let Live (feat. MILES TACKETT)(Vinyl 7″)
JUNGLE FIRE feat. JAMIE ALLENSWORTH: Together/ Movin On
In the first of two big F Spot Records 45 drops this week comes this scorcher from L.A. tropical funk commandos Jungle Fire featuring Together and Movin’ On. The former was originally just a digital single put out in support of the Black Lives Matter and provides a pretty faithful take on Ray Barretto’s 1973 original albeit with Jamie Allensworth giving the vocals an American soul
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THE WHITE BLINDS: Cal High
I’ve said it before, but sometimes the releases land in the monkey’s digital inbox so thick and fast there isn’t time to keep up – and that’s after the ones that got binned because they weren’t MB material! Such a time is autumn and one release that got overlooked in the deluge is hot new single Cal High from The White Blinds. Like fellow organ trios such as the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and
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NIGHT OWLS: Versions LP
Rating: Now then, if you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground regarding all things funky reggae in the last year or two, you can’t fail to have happened across L.A. supergroup Night Owls, consisting of musicians from L.A. reggae outfit The Lions and Roger Rivas of the same city’s Aggrolites along with a revolving cast of singers including – deep breath – The Lions’ very own
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NIGHT OWLS: You Got To Be A Man / Gimme Little Sign (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: Night Owls’ run of covers shows no signs of abating as the Lions and Aggrolites-featuring supergroup comes correct once more with new 45 You Got To Be A Man b/w Gimme Little Sign. The former finds the band give the retro reggae makeover treatment to Helene Smith’s funk original – a path once also trodden by The Caroloregians. But while the ‘Regians kept
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NIGHT OWLS: Groovin’ (Vinyl 7″)
No sleep for L.A.-based, retro-reggae supergroup Night Owls who are back already following August’s Gossip single with new 45 Groovin’. As is their wont, the band have flipped an old soul classic – in this case, Groovin’ (though the Wu-Tang-sampled Willie Mitchell version rather than The Young Rascals’ original) into something rather more early reggae in style. Jungle Fire’s Jamie
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NIGHT OWLS: Gossip / Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: L.A. label F-Spot hit the spot dead centre with the monkey’s most anticipated 45 of the summer – Night Owls’ Gossip b/w Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get. Night Owls is a super-group formed from assorted members of California reggae band The Lions along with The Aggrolites’ Roger Rivas and the two tracks are, of course, covers of Cyril Neville’s Meters-backed bomb
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