Black Haze Express : Won't Nobody Listen
The last of tonight’s posts is another massive funk track, this time from Sam Dees (performing as Black Haze Express).
Won’t Nobody Listen/Pretty Soon is one of two singles Sam recorded as Black Haze Express, this one in 1971 on Clintone (005); the other is Stop This Merry Go Round/Black Tattler in 1972 on Vulcan (111).
Both Black Haze Express releases are collectable, with Won’t Nobody Listen booking at £75 and Stop This Merry Go Round at £100. I have two copies of Won’t Nobody Listen, but doubt the authenticity of one (looks too clean and the grooves are far tighter than the (marginally scruffier) one I believe to be the original issue); I have no evidence that the record has ever been bootlegged, so can only assume this to be a re-issue, or an (as yet) un-documented boot.
The intro on Won’t Nobody Listen has to be amongst the best ever, a pained Sam Dees expressing his anguish that nobody seems to care enough to change anything… listen and get hooked as the drum roll and guitar leads us to his wails of “No, no, no, no, no…”
Pretty Soon carries similar sentiments about the need for change; but a hint of optimism that change is a’ coming…