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Ordinarily, private press albums by groups of unknown musicians don’t make their way back into circulation – they are lost due to their inaccessibility for public consumption and routine home clearouts. Little is known about Four-Um, the group who released the covers album Just Us in 1972, other than their association with Buffalo, New York and their own short-lived label Libra 7 Records. Just Us, however, has clung onto record collector shelves owing to the creativity of its jazz and soul-packed interpretations of classic tracks, and its strong cult-following.
Be prepared to be surprised by the shape of these reimagined classics. Aretha Franklin’s ‘Day Dreaming’ with its lush vocal arrangements echoes through halls of reverb, and sounds spritely psychedelic. Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Scarborough Fair’ is stretched over seven minutes with warm break-out organ solos. Other highlights include covers of The Spiral Staircase’s More Today Than Yesterday’ and Burt Bacharach’s ‘What The World Needs Now’. P-VINE is delighted to reissue Just Us on limited edition vinyl for the first time ever with an obi strip attached.