SYL JOHNSON - Dresses Too Short LP Indie fully untethered from peer influence

fully untethered from peer influence

His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation like he summarized it himself in a 2004 interview for „Al Ahram Weekly“: “[

and the remaining musicians

and like Coltrane's A Love Supreme (1965)

SYL JOHNSON - Dresses Too Short LP Indie fully untethered from peer influenceSyl Johnsons first LP hit stores in the summer of 1969. True to its era, it wasnt so much an album as a collection of singles. The four non single tracks (Soul Drippin, Fox Hunting On The Weekend, Same Kind Of Thing, and Ive Got The Real Thingnone of them a throwaway) were outtakes tacked on to capitalize on the expanding long player market. Prolific designer and photographer Jerry Griffith shot the cover on a South Michigan Avenue buildings balcony.