NOT QUITE A-OKEH

A true story. Just the other night I was rummaging around the shelves looking for something to wake me up after nearly two hours of pre-Belle A1 Green (I�m devoted to him, consider him the great artist of the 70�s, etc., but there�s only so much of the Hodges Bros, tastefully restrained groove that a man can take without slipping into darkness), when what should slip onto my searching hand but Spirit In The Dark, the wonderful 12-year-old Aretha Franklin album.