Leroy Brown’s killer detournement of Bobby Bland’s classic Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City, plus Clint Eastwood’s storming deejay excursion.
It’s a shame there’s no room for the stunning dub on the original Stagesound release of the Clint, but you can’t have everything.
It’s a must.

‘Oo-ooh, I’m burning…’
Slinky, sultry, in-the-pocket West Coast soul, from BG’s forgotten, late-seventies stint with Warners.
It shames the assignations in Lew Kirton’s classic Heaven in the Afternoon — out the same year — as routine, pedestrian sex.
Lovely, entwined piano and xylophone.
Composed by Mac Davis, who wrote In The Ghetto for Elvis. ‘I try to tell the truth and hope it rhymes.’
Killer.

Red felt tip marking on the B-side label. Click through for an image.

The Tenderness Trio was sisters Jussara and Jurema Silva, and their brother Robson.
From 1973, A Gira is dedicated to nature, spirituality and mindfulness, by way of a tribute to a Candomblé deity, with mesmerizing polyrhythms from the start, soaring vocals and beautiful playing. As the sisters put it — “It has the dancing, the expression, the lyrics and musical relaxation. Something very Brazilian.”
B/w a surprise version of Gato Barbieri’s Last Tango In Paris.
Ace.

Expert, breezy version of Grover Washington’s Loran’s Dance (as sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, on Push It Along). Lovely stuff.

The dub is a militant, clattering, tearaway, raw monster-slayer, with Johnny Clarke at the controls, for his own label. Total murder.