Spooky Tooth – It's All About

This reissue of Spooky Tooth's debut album is a recreation of the original 1968 release on Island Records UK and has been pressed on heavyweight 180g vinyl. Formed from the group Art (vocalist Mike Harrison, guitarist Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Mike Kellie) who caught the attention of Chris Blackwell. He suggested adding London-based American keyboardist Gary Wright, and Spooky Tooth were born. Offering a heady brew of heavy blues and soul, Spooky Tooth were hugely popular on the underground in the late 60s, so they are now ripe for rediscovery.

Their debut album "It's All About", recorded at Olympic and produced by Jimmy Miller, is like a missing link: Powerful, soul-infused rock, imbued with an incredible sweetness, on their originals and carefully selected covers. The album was released in June 1968. It included a version of Bob Dylan's basement band Too Much Of Nothing, a brilliant recording of Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens and, of the originals, "It's About A" Roundabout, co-written by Jimmy Miller and Gary Wright, could almost pass for Northern Soul with its driving beat. "It's All About" is a beautiful, often surprising album that you should listen to again and again.