Blues and the Soulful Truth

Thomas is most associated with his work with Pharoah Sanders, but this solo record shows a singer with a genuinely eccentric range — yodeling, jazz phrasing, and gospel inflection colliding inside a single track. The band playing behind him is loose in a way that sounds intentional, leaving space for his voice to operate. It's the kind of record that gets pulled from a crate and argued over.

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