The Undisputed Truth cover

The Undisputed Truth

Released

The second album released in 1971 by The Undisputed Truth featuring their first big hit, the brooding ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes,’ a song perfectly in tune with early seventies paranoid Nixon-era America. Likewise, their near eleven minute take on ‘Ball Of Confusion’ with its effects-laden vocals and fuzz guitar wig outs all sitting on a simple, solid three note bassline has a dark and introspective feel to it. The band also turn in a clutch of cover versions and hippie-soul including an edgy take on ‘Aquarius’ and they even manage to find the melancholy within the cheery ‘California Soul.’ 

Harold Heath

Recommended by

Suggestions
Innervisions cover

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder
Look Out for #1 cover

Look Out for #1

The Brothers Johnson
1999 cover

1999

Prince
Harvest for the World cover

Harvest for the World

The Isley Brothers
My World cover

My World

Lee Fields & the Expressions
Come to My Garden cover

Come to My Garden

Minnie Riperton
Puzzle People cover

Puzzle People

The Temptations
Say Blow by Blow Backwards cover

Say Blow by Blow Backwards

Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns