Its All About

Offering a heady brew of heavy blues and soul and being much loved by the underground in the late '60s, Spooky Tooth are ripe for rediscovery. Recorded at Olympic and produced by Jimmy Miller, their debut album, 'It's All About' today is like hearing a missing link: Powerful soul-tinged rock, suffused with an incredible sweetness, on their originals and judiciously selected covers. It contained a version of Bob Dylan's basement tape 'Too Much Of Nothing', a blistering take on the Nashville Teens 'Tobacco Road' and, of the originals, the Jimmy Miller-Gary Wright co-write 'It's About A Roundabout' could almost be northern soul with its driving beat. 'It's All About' is a lovely, often surprising, album to revisit.