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BEATS OF LOVE 

134. Gypsy Soul by Tommy Bolin

AFTER A pretty horrific week, I needed to hear some warm, mellow, soothing grooves. This, in turn, always makes me nostalgic as I recollect my own golden era.

I'd successfully stayed offline until 2007, knowing my collecting would go crazy. Then the OU bought me a computer. Then Psychemagik, Moonboots, and Lexx posted some incredible mixes. Then Aficionado, Melting Point, Red Light Records and Is It Balearic? started groups that put more amazing music out there. 

Pretty sure this slow burning fire was a Melting Point post. This great record I'd hitherto avoided as Deep Purple crossed that line. That line where my eclectic taste sort of stubbed its big nose up in musical snobbery. That line that I now realize chalked out my own musical ignorance. I now let no stone go unturned when lending my ear, coz Bolin plays his acoustic with an understated drama that makes this flickeringly beautiful winter warmer so damned memorable. It was actually a toss up between this and the mighty Alexis, an earlier tune he wrote which is also brilliant, but the hot flamenco lead outro break sort of won it. 

Yeah, it has been a pretty horrific week where I've had to compromise to stay in employment. Thank God I have this playing on the stereo to fall back on.