*FRIDAY OLDIES* Bob & Gene – If This World Were Mine… (2007)
01. Gotta Find A Way
02. Your Name
03. It Won’t Go
04. I Can Be Cool
05. Sailboat
06. Which Love
07. Interlude
08. Don’t Leave Me Girl
09. Somebody’s Doin It (War)
10. You Don’t Need Me
11. You Gave Me Love
12. If This World Were Mine…
Though the songs that ended up on Buffalo, NY-based soul duo Bob & Gene’s debut full-length, If This World Were Mine… spent 30 years collecting dust on the shelves in William Nunn’s (Bobby Nunn’s father) basement, there’s an energy and spirit to them that makes them as relevant as any other 21st century else release. The youthfulness -though not immaturity- of Bobby Nunn and Eugene Coplin’s voices comes through clearly in the relatively lo-fi sound of the recordings, which were done in the Nunn’s basement where the elder had set up his Mo Do label headquarters and studio, and makes their tight major harmonies. Harmonies that wrap themselves around tales of lost and found love, the ups and downs of heartache, both believable and contemporary.
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