SYL JOHNSON - Dresses Too Short LP Field Recordings Yellowelectric

Yellowelectric

The moment you realize this album could have easily been a complete killed by death sampler or some non-existent CRISIS

Crazy Spirit

This is how the band quite briefly described their music: “a blend of 80's punk hardcore

it's cool that it's being released in 2018 -- the 50th anniversary of the recording of the first free bass solo LP

SYL JOHNSON - Dresses Too Short LP Field Recordings YellowelectricSyl Johnsons first LP hit stores in the summer of 1969. True to its era, it wasnt so much an album as a collection of singles. The four non single tracks (Soul Drippin, Fox Hunting On The Weekend, Same Kind Of Thing, and Ive Got The Real Thingnone of them a throwaway) were outtakes tacked on to capitalize on the expanding long player market. Prolific designer and photographer Jerry Griffith shot the cover on a South Michigan Avenue buildings balcony.