Milton Benett

Clube da Esquina e o album do coletivo de musicos brasileiros conhecidos como Clube da Esquina, liderado pelos cantores e compositores Milton Nascimento e Lo Borges, a quem o album foi creditado. O disco foi lancado, no Brasil, em LP em 1972 pela EMI-Odeon. Clube da Esquina chamou a atencao pelas composicoes engajadas e a miscelanea de sons. A capa traz a foto de dois meninos, Cacau e Tonho, fotografados em uma estradinha de terra nas proximidades de Nova Friburgo, regiao serrana do Rio de Janeiro, proximo de onde moravam os pais adotivos de Milton.

Little Milton may not have been the greatest R&B artist or the greatest blues artist or the greatest soul artist of all time, but he and Bobby Bland were easily the two best ever at incorporating all three genres into all their work for many decades. "Grits Ain't Groceries" is sheer late-'60s R&B greatness - an exciting, rollicking remake of the Titus Turner tune that turned out to be Little Willie John's début hit [#5 R&B] in 1955 (then titled "All Around the World"). Little Milton scored a #13 soul / # 73 pop hit with it. I thought its passionately powerful and smoldering Chicago blues B-side "I Can't Quit You Baby" (co-written by Milton, and with that dazzling guitar I mentioned) made it an unbeatable combination, worthy of of #1 - at least on the soul charts…