Tito Jackson

★★★★

Under Your Spell GULF COAST. CD/DL

Excellent follow-up to 2016’s Tito Time.

The guests are head-turning on this second solo record by the Jackson 5/ Jacksons guitarist and singer – Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff come out of retirement to pen All In The Family Blues, a deliciously creamy duet with former O’Jays vocalist Eddie Levert; Stevie Wonder wails harmonica on Love One Another, the album’s first single and standout, a Sly-like #BLM future anthem; George Benson solos on a magnificent cover of B.B. King’s Rock Me Baby which also features King’s daughter Claudette on vocals; Bobby Rush, Tito’s brother Marlon Jackson and Kenny Neal also join in. Despite the impressive roll call, Tito Jackson’s rich voice and fluid guitar licks still dominate the album as he delivers messages of love, peace and civil rights in a funk blues setting that’s effective and suits him very well indeed.