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4.5
Terry Manning was an engineer and producer who worked with a lot of Stax artists: Issac Hayes, the Staple Singers and much later, Lenny Kravitz.This is a solo album he put out on Enterprise, a Stax sub label, in 1970.Home Sweet Home is not soul or funk, but contains a lot of great, radically altered Beatles covers and other rock pieces. Check how Manning turns Beatle-Georges "Savoy Truffle" from a rock quick chestnut into a long psych jam essay. Manning knows what he is doing: at no point to the Fab covers become the pretentious art stabs so many other bands careened to when going to the holy grail.The non-Beatle tracks here also work as psych jams, phase shifted and flanged as you may expect on an album like this in '70, but the playing is always in the pocket, and what could be an indulgent disaster turns into charming covers; for all the effects, Manning never forgets the songs.This is not a classic, but collectors of the forgotten from this era will want to impress their friends with Home Sweet Home
