Cobie Joe Payne SWEET THING

“black night is falling down around us”

SONICALLY SPEAKING, SWEET Thing resembles something you’d be prone to hear stumbling into an Accra discotheque back in the day with your mind melting on some West African voodoo drug the bellboy slipped you for an extra tip.  But no, this utterly mental psychedelic disco/funk piece somehow surfaced from, not half way around the globe, but the trenches of Milwaukee’s north side in 1978.

Nobody really knows the story of how this tune, with its driving percussion, twisting horns, and nightmarish vocals came into being;  Cobie Joe transcended this physical plane about a year before local record sleuths could finally track him.  Its orgins will remain a secret for now, hidden behind every sound that eminates from the grooves of this mke-afro-psych gem.

Tags: 70s, funk, psych