Seventies disco-funk is pretty easy to parody: get the wah-wah working over a funky groove-bass, bring in the strings and girlie-singing bits, add slivers of horns, and make sure the whole thing is pretty repetitious and slightly detached despite the "oh babyI want you" lyrics.
But as any good cook will tell you, the recipe is only the guide. Stewart knew the whole damn cookbook, if this long-out-of-print reissue is to be believed.
He makes "Fulton country line" one of the sexiest choruses you've ever heard and the other tracks on this mid 70s lost-in-the-ozone 38-minute album are Bump and Hustle Music, Get of Your Seats, Make Happy Music, Atlanta Get Down, Riding High and Disco Hop. Got the picture?
The multi-tasking composer, arranger, producer worked to a familiar recipe but was a gourmet chef in his sweaty, flavoursome kitchen. A reissue for 70s buffs, Venus Flytrap fans, tacky-taste people and DJs everywhere. Git down wit it.
