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I work in a second hand record shop called Grooves in San Francisco, and this LP by Jona Lewie, On the Other Hand There's A Fist, came through and hung in the racks for a few weeks and nobody took much notice. One day my friend [roots rocker] Chuck Prophet came in and was looking around and spied the record and asked if I'd played it yet - I hadn't. He said, "I wonder about this guy, he's on Stiff - 1978, looks cool... let's give it a spin." The first track, The Baby, She's On the Street came on and three heads turned - mine, Chuck's and Ray's, the shop's owner. The lusty grins and inner groans of "I-must-have-this" began in earnest as this awesome new wave-boogie-woogie-blues-pop filled the store. Well, I begged the loudest and took the record home and played it over and over for months. I played it at all my parties, at dinner, when deejaying. Soon I found all his singles and later LP Heart Skips Beat online - and judging by the low prices they went for, it seemed the world was indifferent to Jona, except maybe for Stop The Cavalry in England at Christmas time. I decided I would right this injustice if I had to buy every copy I could find on eBay and give them away. Before long I had 11 copies of this record on UK, US, Canadian and picture disc formats. If I played it to a friend at home and their eyes lit up like mine after that fateful first listen, I'd say "hold on a sec" and give them one. But enough about me; this album is fantastic! Police Trap has about the best sounding jazzy snare and cymbal I've heard, behind lyrics about being, possibly, gay and on LSD. Vous Et Moi could be anywhere on Here Come The Warm Jets and would improve on Eno's best. The piano crooner, On The Road would make John Cale cry. Nothing has blown me away in a long while like Jona Lewie's tunes. If you hurry over I may still have a copy or two left to pass along. -- Mojo4music.com, December 8, 2010
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