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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Hustlers Convention

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In October 1973, “Celluloid Records” label released “Hustlers Convention”, album by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, his debut album under the pseudonym Lightnin’ Rod.

Personnel:

  • Lightnin’ Rod – vocal
  • Kool and the Gang
  • Full Moon (Neil Larsen, Buzzy Feiten)
  • Cornell Dupree, Eric Gale – guitar
  • King Curtis, Trevor Lawrence, Maurice Smith, Andrew Love, Lou Collins – tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Mitchell – baritone saxophone
  • Charles Sullivan, Gerry Thomas, Wilbur “Dud” Bascomb, Wayne Jackson – trumpet
  • Jack Hale – trombone
  • Richard Tee, Truman Thomas – piano
  • Billy Preston – organ
  • Fred Backmeier, Jerry Jemmott, Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
  • George McCleary – drums, congas
  • Jimmy Johnson, Bernard Purdie, Phillip Wilson – drums

Track listing:

  1. Sport
  2. Spoon
  3. The Café Black Rose
  4. Brother Hominy Grit
  5. Coppin’ Some Fronts For The Set
  6. Hamhock’s Hall Was Big (And There Was a Whole Lot to Dig!)
  7. The Bones Fly from Spoon’s Hand
  8. The Break Was So Loud, It Hushed the Crowd
  9. Four Bitches Is What I Got
  10. Grit’s Den
  11. The Shit Hits the Fan Again
  12. Sentenced to the Chair