ruth copeland

...this lightly tasty confection made up from the invictus joints ruth cut in the early 70's sure got a lot of grooves and styles hitting on all 4 burners...this hep young miss from merrie olde england got herself hooked up with the parliamentfunkadelic crew and knocked out two funk-folk-gospel-rock platters represented herein...the simple fact of seemingly covering too many styles undoubtedly stopped the discs from finding a willing audience, falling between too many stools she slipped through the cracks in public perception as the great unwashed would not handle a multi various stew like this, a kaleidoscopic overflow of assured penship and musicality...as for the more tuned in cats, funk heads wouldn't go for the quieter moments, folk fans if there were any left wouldn't know this from a hole in the ground and as for the dolt brained rockers, it's got to be said, one way or another like to put on blinkers when they got to figure out what it is they might be listening to...some nice screeching guitar from the 'delic crew, courtesy of eddie hazel on some tracks and a couple of glimmer twin tunes crop up to finish up the disc...it's a nice trip to long ago when artists were allowed to collide a few styles and moods, though it's pertinent to say that it may be needful to hear more than once before listening, and the racket box turned up for maximum enjoyment...2nd joint is probably the stronger as the noise button has been flicked to the right though both are agreeably fine and make for some elated late night grooving...