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FROG, WYNDER K. - Into The Fire
United Artists | 1970
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Reviewed
By: Motown67
Sometimes you just get that feeling. You know there are records about. Well I got that feeling one day as I was driving home from work. On my way back from school I always pass by this record shop that I’ve hardly ever gone into because they usually don’t turn over their stock that much. This day however, I felt something, which led me inside their store. Within I pulled this record, which someone had stashed in the Folk section. Into The Fire was the follow up to Frog’s debut LP Out Of The Frying Pan. Frog gets off to a rousing start with the title track that has a long and extended drum and cowbell break intro before a fuzz bass tone comes in and the rest of the group joins in for a mid-tempo, yet swinging number. Cool Hand Stanley is in the same category with another drum break intro and another towards the end, and a similar feel to it. The last three songs on the record, Why Am I Treated So Bad, Hot Salt Beef and Warm And Tender Love, all have a Blues-Jazz-Rock feel to them reminiscent of Lou Donaldson’s later Blue Note recordings. The last of those also has a real nice percussion and drum break fade out. The best cut, however, might be the Blues-Funk of Howl In Wolf’s Clothing, a tribute to Howlin Wolf.
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