Mel Brown - Chicken Fat (Verve By Request Series) [LP]

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Guitarist Mel Brown's 1967 Impulse! Debut is possibly the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. His clean blues picking style - honed while playing in John Lee Hooker's and T-Bone Walker's bands - marinates funkily with the swinging soul-jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins. The title track and the simmering lament of "I'm Goin' to Jackson" standout. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes.