JOHN VALENTI – Anything You Want [P-VINE Japan remaster Ltd. Release] (2022) HQ *only at 0dayrox*
As requested, here’s the recent Japanese remastered reissue of ”Anything You Want”, the debut album from American crooner JOHN VALENTI, considered one of the first LP’s with the Westcoast AOR sound that would became popular in years to come.
Originally going by the name John Livigni, his talents had been stewing for some time in the run-up to this 1976 release. And yet, after supporting smooth pop arrangements for one of the few white bands signed to Motown records, few could have predicted Valenti’s snarling and soulful lead vocals across these eleven tracks.
A record that’s as wonderful as it is obscure – at least for some time, as remained decades out of print – ”Anything You Want” was re-discovered by FM radio at the end of the Seventies and become a favorite.
Oh, and there’s a young guitarist named Jay Graden dropping some amazing solos – a session god that later would change his artistic name to Jay Graydon.
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