Albert Cummings

Believe

‘Never make a songwriter angry,’ Cummings advises, and on the standout song here, Queen Of Mean, the Massachusetts bandleader shoots down a shedevil who ‘could make an onion cry’. Still, it’s hard to stay mad when you’re tracking at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, and the bonhomie is soon restored on the push/pull groove of My Babe and Going My Way. HENRY YATES