Songwriter, producer and musician Willie Henderson worked with the likes of Jackie Wilson, Donny Hathaway and Barbara Acklin and he also put out this excellent funk album in 1970. A collection of instrumental and semi-instrumental soul/funk tracks, aside from a questionable cover of The Archies’ ‘Sugar Sugar’ this is all solid gold. A rock-solid funky rhythm section, chicken-scratch guitar, triumphant brass and a live feel, with plenty of sax soloing from Henderson, it’s not the stripped back, efficient funk of the JBs or The Meters, it’s a more big-band, jubilant, soulful take on the genre. 

– Harold Heath