Texas Twister returns

Johnny Copeland

EXAS TWISTER blows
blue; Hot Chocolate
checks in with a de-
cade of sweetness and
lightness.
Johnny Copeland — Flyin’
High, Polydor/PolyGram France
1992,

This is elemental big-beat blues.

The Texas Twister serves up
snake-fingered guitar with clean
and delibriate obrasing.

Vocally the Graiiuny-winning,
W.C. Handy Award-toting
bluesman ranks as the male
equivalent of Etta James.

The rolling thunder underpinn-
ing the proceedings cones
courtesy of The Uptown Horns.

Flyin’ High manages that in-
congruous trick of all fine blues

Michael Becker

RECORD REVIEW

guy on the other side of the
speakers is busy measuring his fife
in hard luck and misfortune.
There's plenty of jump as
Copeland pals Dr. John and
Buckwheat Zydeco sit in on this
session recorded in 1991 in New
York City.
Hot Chocolate ~- Every 1's A
Winner, EMI Records 1993.

Flyin’ High with new release

Those picking through the
dance-hall strata af 19708 pop will
find the period consistently laced
with accretions from this soul
band.

London-based protean
purveyars of socially conscious

dance music, Hot Chocolate broke

ground asa racially integrated
group with players rooted in Brit-
ish and Caribbean pop traditions.

The thythmic territory staked out
early by this band would tater be
explored to great effect by Boney
M,

While tunes like You Sexy
Thing, Girl Crazy and Disco
Queen push the right hedonistic
buttons, Brother Louie, a 1973 hit
for the band in England and a hit
tor Stories in the U.S,, squarely
addressed racial issues in frank
narrative form.

Cover-tune artist favorites, Hot

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Chocolate confections have been
rewrapped by a disparate bunch
~— April Wine, Suzi Quatro, Mary
Hopkin and most recently, Boot-
sauce (Every I's A Winner,

Every 1's A Winner includes
several songs that didn’t receive
much play in North America. The
disc covers a decade of output and
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JOHNNY COPELAND dedicates Flyin’ High to Stevie Ray Vaughn
und Willie Dixon among others.

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