Baby Huey - The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend 180g - Rhino Reserve series

Baby Huey
The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend
Curtom / Rhino Reserve 971650 - 180g re-issue from the Rhino Reserve collection 

The Babysitters regularly played at the Thumbs Up club on Chicago's north side and it was there that the band was discovered by Donny Hathaway who insisted Curtis Mayfield go the following night to check them out. It has been said that Curtis wasn't a fan of the band (he only loved Huey) and may have forced some of his own musicians into the sessions for The Living Legend. The record became a posthumous release for Baby Huey as he died on October 28, 1970 in a Chicago hotel room of unknown causes, just weeks after the death of Jimi Hendrix.

The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend is an audiophile necessity. Recorded in 1970, it is the only solo album by James "Baby Huey" Ramey. After his untimely death at the age of 26, Curtis Mayfield finished the production of the record and released it via his Curtom Records label in 1971. With tracks like "Hard Times," which has been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest and Ice Cube, and gorgeous covers of "A Change Is Going To Come" and "California Dreamin'," this album has become a cult classic among hip-hop and soul fans alike. In celebration of Black Music Month, this album has been cut from the original tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and is pressed locally on 180 gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing's brand new plant in Oxnard, California as part of Rhino's new Rhino Reserve line.

     Track Listing:

Listen to Me
Mama Get Yourself Together
A Change is Going to Come
Mighty, Mighty
Hard  Times
California Dreaming
Running
One Dragon Two Dragon

NEW SEALED 180g re-issue from the Rhino Reserve collection in a thick gatefold jacket