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40 years on from his chart-topping hit "Village of Love" and Fortune Records classics "I Had a Dream" and "I Want Love and Affection (Not the House of Correction)", Detroit soul legend NATHANIEL MAYER's new album "Why Don't You Give It to Me?" sounds like the record he should have made in 1970. Following his critically acclaimed comeback album "I Just Want To Be Held" (Fat Possum 2004), Nathaniel accepted an invitation to tour as the opening act for the Black Keys, with a backing band comprised of guitarist Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry), bassist Troy Gregory (Dirtbombs), and drummer Dave Shettler (SSM). This is soul music with a psychedelic rock n' roll heart that has as much in common with the Stooges and MC5 as it does with Nathaniel's R&B contemporaries like Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and the Miracles. "Why Don't You Give It to Me?" ought to flip a few wigs, new and old. It's somehow in the same bag as the Stooges' "Raw Power", early Funkadelic, and the psychedelic Temptations. It is also the sound of the streets of modern-day Detroit, the sound of good vibrations amid the rampant chaos.
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