Truth to Power

Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse

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Eugene McDaniels was a product of his time – an iconoclast who didn’t see any distinction between the discipline of the groove and the wild-ass freedom of the nutty yet provocative idea. Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse, first released in 1971, occupies a funky fringe backwater where soul, rock, R&B, and the protest song aligned with identity politics, theology, astrology, urban affairs, hallucinogenic drugs, and black revolution – an artistic attempt to make war on, rather than love to, the great Satan of Richard Nixon’s America.

Produced by the recently departed Joel Dorn, this album sizzles.


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