Treacherous Too! (1991)
Rhino Records R2 70776-2

 

 

Your Time's Up (Hawketts)
Oooh-Whee Baby (Art)
What's Going On (Art)
How Many Times (Aaron)
Humdinger (Aaron)
Skeet Skat (Art)
Lover Of Love (Art)
Hook, Line and Sinker (Art)
Why Worry (Aaron)
Jailhouse (Aaron)
She's On My Mind (Aaron)
Tell Me What's On Your Mind (Meters/Cyril)
Break Away (Neville Brothers)
Mojo Hannah (Neville Brothers)
Midnight Key (Neville Brothers)
Drift Away (Neville Brothers)
Spirits Of The World (Neville Brothers)
Wake Up (Neville Brothers)

 

 

 

A decent supplement to Rhino's original "Treacherous" compilation. The disc starts out strong with six songs from Poppa Funk and two from Aaron's Minit Records sessions. Next up are two of Aaron's Parlo cuts and one Bell Records cut from 1969. The following cut (from Cyril) is the most intriguing song on the collection in so far as it is NOT what it claims to be. Alleged to be the b-side of Cyril's "Gossip" 45, it is (in fact) a Meters outtake, which appears nowhere else. Closing out the disc are five tracks from the Nevilles' "Uptown" LP (which was released in 1987, after the release of the original "Treacherous" collection) and one excellent song from the "Neville-ization" LP.

In the All-Music Guide, William Ruhlmann states that the "Uptown" and "Neville-ization" tracks prevent this disc from achieving classic status. Keeping in mind that "Uptown" was very difficult to find on CD at that time, I can understand Rhino's inclusion of so many tracks from that LP.

Despite Ruhlmann's comments, the guide rates the disc 4-and-a-half out of five stars.

 

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