Climbing Jacob’s Ladder to burn your house down
Having been off Ebay for a while (”Cold Turkeeee….”), just a quick post to note the passing of an acetate of Doris Troy’s single Jacob’s Ladder (Apple 28 in UK). Who knows, maybe it was Doris’s, or George’s, own test cutting.
Seems a shame Jacob’s Ladder didn’t do better, back in the Autumn of 1970: as I’ve commented elsewhere, there was a lot of spritual stuff going down, from Spirit In The Sky to Let It Be to Hare Krishna – to name but a few. Jacob’s Ladder is a very fine bit of punchy soul. However, for me, the standout track on Doris’s Apple album is still her thundering version of Buffalo Springfield’s Special Care: interesting to see how, playing the song live in 1974, Stephen Stills sticks closer to Doris’s rendition, than the slower and more bluesy original on Last Time Around.