Blood Brothers
“Black Is So Bad” (Turbo) 1972
by Wax Poetics
Four words say it all. The Blood Brothers make an eloquent case for lyrical simplicity with this driving number that finds the group frantically chanting the title with authoritative insistence over a rough hewn, funk track that sounds like a J.B.’s riff stuck on a run-out groove. The famed Lonnie Youngblood contributes the squawking sax licks.
