SOUL SEARCHERS funk LP “Salt of the Earth” SUSSEX orig ‘74 NICE

$

40

Artist:  SOUL SEARCHERS             

Title:  “Salt of the Earth”

Label:  SUSSEX  ~  # SRA 8030.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is brown with black text. 

Year:  1974

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NM-/NEAR MINT (play grade) with 100% of original gloss.  Side One has a light hairline mark across tracks 2 & 3 that does not affect playback.  Side Two is NEAR MINT, as clean as can be found.  Labels are clean.  The fidelity is simply amazing! 

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG+ with signs of wear and handling, but still quite presentable.   Minor ring wear is noticeable on both front and reverse.  Opening edge has tiny cut-out notch at the top, and small bump toward the bottom.  There is also some moderate shelf wear along the seams and at the corners.  No writing,splits, stickers, or other issues.  Overall, a very acceptable jacket to accompany the superb disc. 

Track Listing: 

Side One: 

• I Rolled It You Hold It
• Blow Your Whistle
• Close to You
• Funk to the Folks

Side Two:

• Ain’t It Heavy
• Windsong
• Ashley’s Roachclip
• We Share
• If It Ain’t Funky 

Review:

“The second Soul Searchers LP expands the band's music into deep and dark new dimensions.  While boasting an even funkier street-smart approach than the previous We the People, Salt of the Earth achieves new levels of jazz-inspired sophistication as well.  The much-sampled "Ashley's Roachclip" and "I Rolled It, You Hold It" are brilliant evocations of mind-warping psychedelia, but the group also slows down and gets straight with a shimmering reading of the classic Bacharach/David love song "Close to You."  Between those two extremes lurk angular yet soulful grooves with all the widescreen power of contemporaries like Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool & the Gang, but with a structural complexity all their own.”

(courtesy Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com.)

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