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Genre: Highlife, Afrobeat
From: Accra, Ghana
LP: De Frank Professionals (1976)
An absolute monster of a jam. This is easily in my top five favorite songs ever. Those drums! That organ tone! That little swinging guitar lick! This was compiled on ‘Afro-beat Airways: Ghana & Togo 1972-1978’ by the label Analog Africa. The self-titled record this came from, however, remains maddeningly out of print.
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