Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces – Go Ahead And Burn @ 192 kbps (feel free to post link if you got better bitrate)
Release: 2004; R.P.M. Records (unsafe: tunes originally released on Chess)
First noticed him on the MRC tapes (as Bobby Moore & the Soul Finders) so did a little digging and this is what came up. Highly recommended.
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Everything that Moore recorded for Chess is on this 24-track compilation, including all 12 songs from 1966’s Searching for My Love (his sole LP), both sides of four non-LP 1966-1970 singles, and four cuts (two from 1968 and two from 1970) that had only appeared previously on a Japanese LP. It’s decent, but only adequate, period mid- to late-’60s Southern club soul by a sax/organ/guitar-paced combo, the sound of a band that came up with one excellent song (the hit ballad “Searching for My Love”) and never scrounged up anything else to match it. There’s an assortment of romantic ballads with echoes of the doo wop era, slightly generic uptempo instrumentals (somewhat in the style of Junior Walker) by Moore (who in fact was the group’s saxophonist, not the singer, as the vocal chores fell to Chico Jenkins), and straightforward dance tunes (like “The Hamburger Song,” with its nonsensical rapping). Occasionally the quality rises to the slightly above average, as on the brooding, tempo-switching “When I Get This Feeling,” the “Searching for My Love” follow-up “Try My Love Again,” and the sizzling “Go Ahead and Burn” (which has an uncharacteristic jazz hipster feel to the beat and half-chanted lyrics). Much of the material was recorded in Muscle Shoals, and accordingly there’s a Southern feel in some respects, though tempered by more northerly pop-soul influences than much soul cut in the Deepp South during the period. ( amg )