From the back cover liner notes:

Nobody could work a club like Johnnie Taylor, and on this hot September night in 1972, JT worked LA's Summit Club.

This is Johnnie Taylor like no record ever captured him, squarely in his element, worrying and teasing his way through slow-burn blues and funky soul workouts to a crowd of fur-lined players and ice-cold hustlers who wouldn't settle for second-rate. Rappin' to the ladies one moment, smack-talking his band the next, JT works the room like a storefront-preacher gone wrong.

"Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone," the one song from this set that made it into the Wattstax movie, is the hands-down highlight of that film. Now, for the first time, you can dig the whole set in all its ghetto-gold glory. The Soul Philosopher is at the pulpit, so fold out a seat, slide out your flask and get ready for church.

TRACK LISTING

1. Introduction by Rufus Thomas
2. Take Care Of Your Homework
3. Little Bluebird
4. Steal Away
5. I Don't Wanna Lose You
6. Who's Making Love
7. Hello Sundown
8. Steal Away
9. Stop Doggin' Me
10. Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone