Reviewing Sex and Soul in Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote, “Roy Hammond is a driven artist-he cut this in his garage-and his compulsiveness comes out in the lyrics despite convincing asides about racism and Vietnam, his title ought to be Infidelity and Suffering. He stayed with Mercury for several years, until label bosses took exception to his outspoken political stance in songs, including “Great Great Grandson of a Slave” from his 1977 album More Sex and More Soul. He also released an album, Sex and Soul, and several more minor hit singles. Two years later he signed with Mercury Records, and had another R&B hit with “Don’t Blame the Man”.
Hines, he had more success with “Got to Get Enough (Of Your Sweet Love Stuff)” making the R&B charts in 1971. His first album, That Shotgun Wedding Man, was released on Ember Records in 1966.Īfter some unsuccessful follow-ups on the Shout label, Hammond started another new label, Alaga. It had even greater success when issued in the United Kingdom, reaching number 6 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966 and number 8 when reissued in 1972. The record, with its novelty ricochet opening and subject matter that was relatively risqué for the time, reached number 14 on the national Billboard R&B chart. When he returned to New York City in 1965, Hammond organised a studio session to record his own song, “Shotgun Wedding”, and released it under the name Roy Hammond on his own Hammond label, before leasing it to the larger Black Hawk Records under the name Roy C.
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