Soul Heart Transplant: The Lamp Sessions

They’d eventually drop a couple LPs in the early-mid ’70s under the name Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign, but before that, the Ebony Rhythm Band was a house band for the Indy indie Lamp Records that had only a sole 1969 7” (“Soul Heart Transplant” / “Drugs Ain’t Cool”) under their own name. But an archival digging session came up with an LP’s worth of lively, mostly-instrumental organ-heavy sprawling soul gems, including covers of late ’60s standards like “Light My Fire” and “Ode to Billy Joe” that would have Booker T. & the M.G.’s sweating.