1992’s A Walkin’ Thing is the last of three albums the great American organist Shirley Scott recorded for Candid
Where their real strength lies is not in instrumental virtuosity or song (although many of the tunes here are sturdy enough) but rather in feel: they capture an indistinct past where guitars are an enduring virtue
with the bent notes… [it] started me on my path
but rather a means of escape and access to the wider world– all the love and action that was waiting beyond the laying low and hunkering down that was required in order to survive in their new and changing world
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Tunji Oyelana A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79 LP Pink Vinyl Limited To 1000 Copies 1992’s A Walkin’ Thing isDuring the golden age of Nigerian music in the 1970s, Tunji Oyelana elevated the realm of pop music by infusing it with the poetic storytelling of Yoruba folklore, blending the fashionable sounds of highlife, afrobeat, afrorock, funk, calypso, juju and reggae and transforming them into something timelessly unique. Tunji's first records came out in 1969 but it wasn't until two years later that the first record credited to Tunji Oyelana & The Benders,