Willie Mitchell - The Many Moods of Willie Mitchell

The 1970 follow-up to Soul Bag was for the most part a further step away from where Willie Mitchell had been for the past decade. The sound on Many Moods is darker, funkier, greasier, and grittier. It's almost sloppy, which gives the record an immediacy virtually nothing he recorded before or since could claim. From the slippery late-night feel of "Breaking Point," with its gorgeous guitar and organ harmonics, to the endgame of "Something Nice," which is far more sexy than nice with its intricately structured horn and guitar lines weaving in and out of one another, the effect was the same: intoxicating groove science. Read More