Totally bizarro boppin' Soul LP by Screamin' (I put A Spell On You) J Hawkins. This guy has been drenched in weirdness since the start of his career. I was very surprised to hear he might have been a tortured POW who killed his chief captor by taping a grenade in his mouth! YIKES!! Hawkins on the back cover looks more like Malcolm X rather than his usual Blacula self. The front cover is a great piece of Modern African style art, all this makes me think ... Black Panther Party?? Some say they don't like this Hawkins record, but I think it's great, in a time of political Soul, Hawkins keeps up, stays current ... and sits on his throne ... as the King of Shock!
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