Denise LaSalle
“A Man Sized Job” (Westbound) 1972
by Wax Poetics
Veteran Memphis trumpeter/bandleader Gene “Bowlegs” Miller had been playing on sides for Chess and Stax for almost a decade by the time he crafted this hard-driving, string-laced arrangement on Detroit’s Westbound in 1972. Bowlegs had previously served as an apprentice to Hi’s Willie Mitchell, arranging and co-producing some of the earlier Ann Peebles sides for the label. So don’t be surprised by this track’s frequent cross-border raids on Mitchell’s musical
