LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The final instalment in Kent's trilogy of CDs featuring the complete surviving Okeh, Columbia and Epic masters finds Walter Jackson in New York in 1967-68, recording what many consider to be the best material of his entire career.

Walter's repertoire ranges from his definitive readings of the UK Walker Brothers hit 'My Ship Is Coming In' and the Bacharach-David perennial 'The Look Of Love', via the staggering 'suicide' song 'The Bed' to the Big City soul of 'No Butterflies'. These, Walter's other single-only releases from the period and the whole of his original Okeh album "Speak Her Name" are compiled here to produce a fitting finale to a wonderful series of CDs .

Virtually none of these tracks has ever appeared on a UK CD before. Two have never been released in any form - indeed, 'Forget The Girl' was mixed down from the multi-track especially for this CD.

Walter Jackson is exactly the sort of artists that Kent buyers can't wait to lay down their money for. If anyone has ever deserved the "Kent" treatment, it's Walter.

Track listing:

1. SPEAK HER NAME
2. TEAR FOR TEAR
3. NOT YOU
4. AFTER YOU THERE CAN BE NOTHING
5. THEY DON'T GIVE MEDALS (TO YESTERDAY'S HEROES)
6. A CORNER IN THE SUN
7. MY ONE CHANCE TO MAKE IT
8. SHE'S A WOMAN
9. I'LL KEEP ON TRYING
10. IT'S AN UPHILL CLIMB TO THE BOTTOM
11. FUNNY (NOT MUCH)
12. MY SHIP IS COMING IN
13. ROAD TO RUIN
14. EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN
15. FORGET THE GIRL (Previously Unissued)
16. NO BUTTERFLIES
17. JUST ONE SMILE (Previously Unissued)
18. THE LOOK OF LOVE
19. THE BED
20. AD LIB