VOL № C077 — October 2023
...Into a Real Thing
David Porter
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…Into a Real Thing is the first record David Porter produced by himself, and it sounds like an important checkpoint in the invention of progressive R&B as a genre, an album that bent the space-time continuum around R&B and willed it into something new altogether. It’s in conversation with Isaac Hayes’ own output of the era — Hot Buttered Soul especially — but where Hayes blew up the R&B form by throwing a bomb into it, helping create funk in the process, Porter worked more firmly in R&B’s space to build something new from within. …Into a Real Thing is a six-song powerhouse that manages to cram an 11-minute cover of a garage rock hit by the guy who’d later write Hulk Hogan’s entrance song alongside gut-bucket ballads with intricate string arr...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 \Hang On Sloopy\ \\ |
| 2 \Ooo-Wee Girl\ \\ |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Too Real To Live A Lie |
| 2 Grocery Man |
| 3 I Don't Wanna Cry |
| 4 Thirty Days |
