Billy Jenkins
True Love Collection
BDV 9821

1. Invocation I
2. Mellow Yellow
3. Invocation II
4. Yesterday Once More
5. Invocation III
6. Everybody's Talking
7. Invocation IV
8. How Deep Is Your Love
9. Invocation V
10. Feeling Groovy
11. Invocation VI
12. Sunny
13. Altercation
14. Invocation VII
15. Dancing In The Street
16. Consummation

Billy Jenkins, vocals, sidecar guitar; Iain Ballamy, saxophones; Christine Tobin, vocals; Django Bates, keyboards; Dave Ramm, keyboards; Steve Watts, double bass; Mike Pickering, sidecar drumkit; Martin France, drumkit, with contributions from Steve Noble, turntabled BJ vinyl on 3; Tony Messenger, girly backing vocals on 15; The Fun Horns of Berlin (Volker Schlott, a.sax; Thomas Klemm, t.sax; Rainer Brennecke, trumpet; Jorg Huke, trombone) on 12 & 15.

En route back to the blues and his guitar playing roots, BJ starts the reverse trend by exploring Seventies Pop tunes. Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Roy Dodds, Dave Ramm, Christine Tobin Steve Watts and others weave their unique skills over 'Mellow Yellow', 'Everybody's Talkin', 'Feeling Groovy', 'How Deep Is Your Love' and other imitation paste gems.

'This fusion of piss-take with passionate musicianship succeeds in laying bare the process by which music manipulates our emotions. You know you have been conned - and you loved every minute of it.'  Lisa Gee / The Guardian

'There is a kind of genius on our doorstep. Don't let him die in poverty.'  Stewart Lee / Q Magazine