Artist: The Gene Dudley Group
Title: Saturday Shifting
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Wah Wah 45s
Genre: Funk / Soul
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 33:17
Total Size: 218 MB
The Gene Dudley Group represents an outpouring of deep soul and funk music from obscenely talented 27 year-old multi-instrumentalist, Gene Dudley.
The debut album, "Saturday Shifting", was recorded in a cupboard in Muswell Hill, North London, and features the man himself on trumpet, saxophone, drums, bass, guitar and piano. On a couple of occasions, though, Gene had to budge over to allow fellow musicians Ewan Whyte and Tom Jackson to fit in a play a solo or two, but other than that, everything you hear on this album comes from the mind, mouth, fingers and heart of Mr. Gene Dudley Esq.
Fans of labels like Truth & Soul and Daptone will relish these sonorous soulful offerings, but the influences on this album are wide ranging. Tracks like "When The Gorilla Get Grip' and "The New Lots Of Cooperstown" conjure up 60's spy soundtracks, but elsewhere there are afro-beat influences on "The Hilo Bay Halfway" and more easy, introspective moments on "Minnie" and "Do The Stanley Weinberger".
Just when you think you've got Gene Dudley's sound pinned down, the album culminates with a real game changer in the shaped of the brilliantly titled "Waxing Unwaxed Lemons", a quirky, electronic tinged nugget that should please many a dance floor.
01. The Gene Dudley Group - When the Gorilla Get Grip (3:22)
02. The Gene Dudley Group - The Hilo Bay Halfway (2:54)
03. The Gene Dudley Group - The New Lots of Cooperstown (3:25)
04. The Gene Dudley Group - At the Advice of Mr Weiß (3:36)
05. The Gene Dudley Group - Minnie (3:58)
06. The Gene Dudley Group - The Fawcett Negotiation (3:00)
07. The Gene Dudley Group - Learn to Jackpot / Teach to Jackpot (3:16)
08. The Gene Dudley Group - Do the Stanley Weinberger (3:55)
09. The Gene Dudley Group - Fontella's Welcome (2:32)
10. The Gene Dudley Group - Waxing Unwaxed Lemons (3:18)
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