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| George Jackson issued just two singles for Fame Records as he worked for them primarily as a songwriter He did however record more than 100 tracks for the company building up a stockpile of material that could be considered suitable for other artists This collection of 24 cuts all but one previously unreleased is the first of several projected volumes intended to gleam recordings Jackson left behind for the Kent Ace storehouse of Precise dates for the tracks are not given in the otherwise comprehensive annotation but at a guess they were almost certainly done in the late 1960s with some perhaps leaking over into the early 70s at the latest Viewed clinically listening to this disc you can understand both why Fame wanted Jackson as a songwriter and why he wasn t particularly pushed as an artist in his own right Jackson wrote well enough to keep around in case he came up with songs that could be hits as indeed he did for Wilson Pickett Clarence Carter and the Osmonds At times the tunes slightly recall the late- 60s work of soul star Tyrone Davis But most of these songs were on the rather ordinarily decent side than the outstanding one - perhaps things that could adequately fill out albums in many cases Likewise he was a decent singer but not a great one That makes this something of more interest to very serious Southern soul collectors than even the typical more-serious-than-average soul fan but that doesn t mean it s without its strengths Jackson takes a lighter vocal approach than many Southern soul singers and perhaps because it was realized most of these efforts were demos of sorts the arrangements are also a little more casual and stripped-down than the typical Fame product The end results are less overwrought in an interesting and pleasing way than many late- 60s Southern soul records that try so hard to get their pleas over To some listeners the basic approach will have its drawbacks - when he goes into sections that see |
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