Lonnie Smith Finger Lickin' Good

• 1. Hola Muneca
• 2. Minor Chant
• 3. Can't You Just Feel It
• 4. Jeannine
• 5. Sideman
• 6. Keep Talkin'
• 7. My Babe
• 8. In The Beginning
• 9. Lonnie's Blues
• 10. Say Stuff
• 11. Our Miss Brooks

One of two jazz greats going by the name Lonnie Smith, this jovial 1967 jazz-funk opus is most firmly and assiduously credited to the former of the two to claim the name. The renowned organist - whose organ of choice, aside from the heart, was the Hammond B3 - rose to fame as the in-house pipe maestro for George Benson and his quartet during the early 1960s, after which he struck out on his own accord(ion). Aside from its covert KFC brand ambassadorship, Finger Lickin' Good also happens to be a wicked whirl of a jazz record. Smith's plucky organ is as salient as a blue myna flocking among starlings; 'Minor Chant' works as the introductory example of this. The right hand of the Hammond is distinctly clucky and low-midded in the mix, whilst the comparatively drawn-out left hand is centralised and sustained. Eleven prodigious tracks ensue, with the sardonically intoned jive 'Keep Talkin'' standing out among them, its titular chatterbox seemingly mimicked in jest by Smith's mimetic playing.