Cruisin' (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & African

Cruisin' (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & AfricanINDIE ONLY LIMITED EDITION RELEASE ONLY 500 COPIES WITH OBI STRIP A Detroit resident, William Odell Hughes is a much loved street educated singer songwriter and music composer. As a regular passenger riding to work on the Detroit East Side bus route in the early eighties, he met jazz pianist Pamela Wise who also rode the bus to work every day and who he noticed was always reading music. Pamela told him about saxophonist, clarinetist, and producer

whose earliest production here dates from 1990

he and Trottier arranged the new songs at The Banff Centre in Banff

and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end

These days Ho Happy Day can be heard at numerous venues across the world and is a bigger floor-filler now than it was back in the 1970s

And anyone expecting the fevered psychosis that Cale let loose on later albums like Fear and Sabotage/Live is in for a surprise

Album of the Year 2015 Number 16

taken from the original stereo mastered and bolstered by four previously unissued bonus tracks and housed in a gatefold jacket

This is a strictly one-off vinyl pressing for RSD

caught the ears of Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen

Fela and Wilson Picket

is Dinger's blank canvas

often featuring his talented son Shuggie in the ranks