tirado/thrown

Dexys Midnight Runners, “Geno”, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, 1980

Kevin Rowland is a master of the untimely.  The recent Dexys album is a reminder this particular point, and it was thus the case in the band’s beginnings thirty years ago, who debuted with a tribute to American-British R&B figure Geno Washington.  Dexys was resolutely not proceeding on a ska trajectory, though the ska pysch-out is a lovely touch on this rock steady number.