Because the thing is, the Original Gravity roster isn’t a diverse assemblage of multiple retro acts at all. Surely that was a lost gem that has been re-discovered – after all – that really is Dennis Alcapone singing, right? Well, it is Dennis Alcapone singing but that too is actually a new cut.
You were nearly caught out by that recent rocksteady 45 though – weren’t you? You know – The Regulators/ Brentford Rd Soul Rebels one with Dennis Alacapone on the B-side.
You weren’t born yesterday were you? One ‘lost’ track maybe but there’s no way a label could put out a continuous string of them so, while this stuff might sound pretty damn authentic, it’s got to be new hasn’t it? You know the drill by now – Daptone pretty much pioneered it and others followed shortly after – find those people still doing it like people did it back in the day and gather them to you. Maybe soul man Floyd James and his band the GTs rings a bell? Perhaps you caught a vinyl 7″ from funky instrumentalist Melvin Craig, mod-fuzz act The Supersonics or the garage bluesy Labrats? Are those names and sounds from old nuggets re-discovered though – or examples of the ‘new stuff made to sound old’ game? The clues are there – ‘Melvin Craig’ recalls Melvin Sparks while ‘Floyd James’ pastiches Floyd Smith or Eddie Floyd. If you’ve been keeping your ear to Craig Charles’ Funk & Soul Show in the last year and bit, you’ll probably have heard any one of a string of dope 45s from Original Gravity Record‘s artists.
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