Parker, Junior: Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On LP

Next up in Mr Bongo's Groove Merchant Records reissue series is an outing for a much-loved and heavily sampled funk/soul/blues album by Junior Parker. Originally issued under the title "The Outside Man" on Capitol Records in 1970 with an alternative cover, this reissue replicates the Groove Merchant release titled "Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On", featuring the car cover released in 1971. The Mississippi-born, Memphis-based blues singer, harmonica player and songwriter Junior Parker (aka Little Junior Parker) had a stellar career in music. Since the early 1950s he released records on labels such as Duke, Mercury, United Artists Records and more. Sadly though, Parker died at the young age of 39 during surgery on November 18, 1971. "Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On" is drenched in Parker's trademark buttery vocals and soulful grooves, swaggering between smokey blues, raw funk outings and orchestrated soul ballads (with sublime arrangements by Horace Ott). Tracks from the album have been sampled by some of the biggest names out there, such as A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Shadow, and De La Soul.