ICEBERG SLIM- REFLECTIONS

A fantastic album of bad-rapping spoken material from Iceberg Slim -- one of the hippest 70s sets of its type, and a great audio tribute to the man who wrote the books Pimp, Trick Baby, and Mama Black Widow! Slim reads his own work in a very laidback style, but one with a slinky, pimpish feel too -- kind of a relaxed version of the Lightning Rod mode, with similar themes delivered in rhyming prose. Backings are by the Rod Holloway Quartet -- who hit some great bluesy modes on the set -- vamping behind Slim's cool vocals, which themselves are recorded with a nicely pointed quality. Titles include "Mama Debt", "Durealla", "The Fall", and "Broadway Sam". Right up there with Watts Prophets, Last Poets, and Lightning Rod for sheer 70s hipness!