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Love Overdue

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James first album after his release fromjail on the small label Scotti Bros, didn't look very promising. Especially after missing the mark on his last few albums. After a spin through Love Over Due however, it is clear the Godfather wants his soul back.This is James Brown delivering it as he should. Old flavor horns, the Bitter Sweets singing back up and drawing James' running comments, scratchy guitars and best of all... quality songs and FUN. 1991 was a tough year for music and this is at least as good as anything released that year. It is James' best in quite a while."Show Me" and "Teardrops on Your Letter"should become live show classics like the beautiful "Georgia-lina" from Universal Jams has become. And J.B.'s live show is still as powerful asas anyone could hope for. Love Over Due is a strong, self assured group of songs that sound fresh for the time yet recall most of what everyone liked about James Brown in the first place. Buy it.

Excellent international delivery service makes James Brown's out-of-print CD more valuable, especially it's hard to be found in Taiwan.

[Review of Cassette].
You won't find many JB albums better than this one - even compilations! There are seven top-40 quality tracks (producing, arranging, mixing at an optimum) - the eighth is an excellent rendition of Hank Ballard's ballad "Teardrops On Your Letter", which mades a perfect B-side for *any* of the remaining tracks.
It appears that a number of these tunes were composed during Brown's late '80s to early '90s incarceration. There's really no "best" one, but "Later For Dancing", though maybe 40 seconds too long, is memorable at the first first verse, someaht disco-retro, if you will; and one of his best duets. "It's Time To Love" is a latin-beat with good lyrics; it appears that it is the one trcak to become a concert set piece - memorably performed live on The Tonight Show.
"Dance, Dance, Dance, To The Funk" is what you might call "typical James Brown", a dance floor natural, with the two-neat repeated riff to make 'em get up offa that thing and shake well midnight.
"Show Me" is another terrific track - has some '50s feel; the echo-effect (the word "before" boomeranging) is unusual but very "hooky". Talk about a missed oppportunity for Top Pop!
I believe "The Payback", his greatest of the '70s, also had eight tunes, but remember, that was a double-album. "Love Over-Due" is by far his best of the '90s (and '80s!).
In 1991, JB should have collected *two* Grammies: of course we watched him receive one as co-writer of the liner notes to the "Star-Time" boxed set. After the commercial, we should have been able to watch him come back (as in the cape-routine) to win an additional one for the subject of this review.