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The Sugarman 3
What The World Needs Now
A1
Rudy's Intervention
A2
Your Friendly Neighborhood Sugarman
A3
Got To Get Back To My Baby
A4
But It's Alright
A5
Witch's Boogaloo
A6
Brother T.
B1
What The World Needs Now
B2
Dirty Water
B3
Jealous Moon
B4
Mellow Meeting
B5
Love Went Away
The SUGARMAN 3
What The World Needs Now
Daptone US
t’s been a full decade since the last Sugarman Three album, and a lot’s happened in that time. Daptone has risen from an upstart label to spearhead an underground funk movement. Its flagship act, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, became a full-fledged success story, and Sugarman Three leader/saxophonist Neil Sugarman’s played with Amy Winehouse, Al Green and Jones’ Dap-Kings. This may account for the more relaxed vibe of What the World Needs Now compared with its 2002 predecessor Pure Cane Sugar. The revival mission’s already been accomplished, so the new disc doesn’t go out of its way to sound like a lost ‘70s funk nugget. The echo-drenched production of the earlier disc is gone, replaced by a no-frills live sound, and when they want some atmosphere, they bring in some friends to clap hands and shout in the background. Drummer Rudy Albin also sticks less tightly to the coiled-up funk backbeats he used to favor; allowing himself to open up and swing.
