Le label américain Numero Group retrace la carrière du musicien et producteur Lou Ragland sur trois disques. "I Travel Alone" se concentre essentiellement sur deux albums du chanteur guitariste s'illustrant essentiellement dans la northern soul et le funk: "Hot Chocolate" (1971) et "Understand Each Other" (1978). Le troisième disque est un enregistrement live ("Live From Agency"). Un livret très détaillé revient sur la carrière de cet artiste à la destinée atypique, qui fût roadie ou encore chauffeur pour les O'Jays et Don King avant de fonder le groupe Lou Ragland & the Bandmasters et de jouer avec des artistes comme Billy Ward & the Dominoes. Du bel ouvrage ! (AM)
- Lou RAGLAND
- HOT CHOCOLATE
- VOLCANIC ERUPTION
- Ulysses YOUNG Trombone
- Watson VAUGHN Trompette, Flugelhorn
- Pierre DEMUDD Trompette
- Rasoul CAREY Flûte, Saxophone
- Gus HAWKINS Saxophone, Flûte
- Tony ROBERSON Drums
- Herbert PRUITT Basse électrique
- James JOHNSON III Orgue
- Tom TICHAR Guitare
- Fred WHEATT Trombone
- Carlos MARTINEZ Percussion
- Joe JENKINS Percussion
- Dunn PEARSON Piano
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I travel alone
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2
Big wheel
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3
Red robin
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4
I've got something going for me
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5
Good for the gander
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6
We had true love (45 version)
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7
Ain't that a groove
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8
So dam funky
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9
Sexy moods of your mind
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10
Messin' with sly
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11
We had true love
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12
What you want to do
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13
What should i do
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14
I can't take it
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15
What the doctor prescribed
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Since you said you'd be mine
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2
Didn't mean to leave you
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3
Tend to your business
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4
Understand each other
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5
What happened to the feeling
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6
Since you said you'd be mine
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7
lovin' you Just for being you
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8
What should i do?
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9
It's got to change
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10
The next world
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11
Understand each other (instrumental)
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The World Is a Ghetto
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2
Could it be i'm falling in love
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3
Understand each other
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4
It ain't my fault
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5
Until i met you
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6
Spend my life loving you
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7
Brother louie
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8
Good for the gander