Consumer Guide Album

Clarence Reid: On the Job [Alston, 1976]
Reid's strongest LP to date isn't quite strong enough. Except for "Sleep With Me," which peaks with its title, the second side works various imaginative Southern-soul grooves, climaxing with "Nappy-Haired Cowboy" (who's shot down by Reid, the nappy-haired sheriff). And it's too bad Wilson Pickett isn't singing "Come On With It" or "Baptize Me." But he's not. B