The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

Every time that I hear music like that found on The Pimps of Joytime’s High Steppin’, the words of Chuck D ring in my head like the man was rockin’ the mic two inches from my ears. “Who stole the soul?” he would yell time and time again, and finally, in this scenario, I would jump up and say, “Brother! No one stole the soul. It was just misplaced for awhile, but I know who found it. They call themselves The Pimps of Joytime!” Humorous as that scenario may be, it’s pretty spot on with what I found with this album. Soul, soul, soul! Every song brings it, and brings it in a different fashion. High Steppin’ isn’t fourteen songs of the same groove rehashed into the next. Its fourteen tracks, each one seemingly borrowing the soul from a different genre, and adding so much of the bands own character and life, with so much groove and so much zesty flavor that you can’t keep from bobbing your head with the rhythms. It’s got so much damn soul that the late, great James Brown is shaking his bones in the netherworld when the needle hits the record on this jam. And, with no disrespect intended, he’s probably contemplating crawling his way back from the grave to hand his crown to these guys. It’s that good, my friends!

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