Anyone else surprised by this Lowell George cover?
from Robert Palmer . . . . . funk meister! Johnny and Mary was about as prosaic as he got wasn’t it!I mean Addicted to Love? Simply Irresistable !?
I suppose there was the cross over from Vinegar Joe with Elkie Brooks and her hubby but please they wouldn’t have covered Weed, Whites and Wine? Would they? Well he would as his first solo album was heavily influenced by the music of Little Feat and the funk fusion of the Meters, who acted as the backing band along with producer/guitarist Lowell George for his album!!!! WEIRD!
Remembering English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer ROBERT PALMER (19 Jan 1949 – 26 Sep 2003)
The career of blue-eyed soul singer Robert Palmer was a study in style versus substance. While the performer's earliest work won praise for its skillful assimilation of rock, R&B, and reggae sounds, his records typically sold poorly, and he achieved his greatest notoriety as an impeccably dressed lounge lizard.
By the mid-'80s, however, Palmer became a star, although his popularity owed less to the strength of his material than to his infamous music videos: taking their cue from the singer's suave presence, Palmer's clips established him as a dapper, suit-and-tie lady's man who performed his songs backed by a band comprised of leggy models, much to the delight of viewers who made him one of MTV's biggest success stories.
another in the occasional series of singles bought when they came out (this another ex-jukebox bargain bin find)