HENRY FRANKLIN - The Skipper at Home CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS an assured and full-blooded northern

an assured and full-blooded northern soul-rock confection

By narrowing down her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas that revolve around melancholy harmonies and looped industrial beats to mimic the insular focus of the lyrics

The fourth single was "Gypsy"

The lullaby-like “Grapevine” chronicles the splintering of a human connection

Disc 2 - Side A

HENRY FRANKLIN - The Skipper at Home CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS an assured and full-blooded northernBassist, Henry Franklins, 1972 release for Black Jazz, The Skipper, is one of the highlights in a label catalog full of many, and his 1974 follow up, The Skipper at Home (The Skipper is Franklins nickname), lives up to its predecessors high standard and might even surpass it. Which is no surprise given that a lot of the same players are on it, including trumpeter flugelhornist, Oscar Brashear, tenor soprano saxophonist, Charles Owens, and pianist,