Paul King - Winds Of Change (1970-1995)

The man who would be king

With a basic pulse hinged on a pot pourri of home-made percussion devices, the raggedly carefree joie de vivre that Mungo Jerry worked up in metropolitan boozers proved just as effective in the charts. Containing many rare and hitherto-unissued items, including some from pre-Mungo outfits The Tramps and The Good Earth, King's collection lifts off with his chief contributions to the Mungo oeuvre (of which, the mordant Sad-Eyed Joe is notable) then settles down to an almost entirely self-penned career trajectory of projects that, if chiefly short-lived, remained true to Mungo’s original quasi-skiffle vision. 

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Castle | CMQDD 1237

Reviewed by Alan Clayson
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