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J.J. Barnes (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Connoisseur
• ASIN: B00004SV7I
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,804 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Baby Please Come Back Home

2. Chains Of Love

3. Forgive Me

4. Now That I Got You Back

5. Hold On To It

6. Now She's Gone

7. Sad Day A Coming

8. I'll Keep Coming Back

9. Our Love Is In The Pocket

10. So Called Friends

11. Now She's Gone

12. Got To Get Rid Of You

13. Snowflakes

14. Sweet Sherry

15. Help Me Help Me

16. I Need A Change

17. Welcome To The Club

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, August 1, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

The vast majority of Baby Come Back To Me, this JJ Barnes compilation, is Northern Soul. This music had neither the hard grit of Stax or the sweet pop sense of Motown. If you remember popular tracks like "Move On Up" by the Esquires or "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" by Tyrone Davis, this gives you a marker where JJ Barnes stood musically

And it is great music. Some strings, lots of vibraphones, melodic but not to sappy--open sounds. A few of these tracks fall just a little on the sugar side, but even these maintain a groove spine.

Then, in the middle of Baby Comes Back To Me, the most surreal thing happens. "So Called Friends." George Clinton somehow got hold of JJ around 1968 or 1969 and produced this track--some of the meanest, nastiest acid funk this side of Hendrix. I can't be sure but I think the back up here was soon to be Funkidelic troops. Either way, you have to get this if only for this track

Then like a tornado, "So Called Friends" is gone and its back to soulville. Is JJ winking? "Let's pretend I never got down into the psychedelic bada-s gutter."

Ok, sure. But we all know he did, and good as the rest of this elegant music is, I wish George had taken JJ slummin', just a few more times.