
JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky: Complete Works 1983-86 (3CDs)
Available February 21, 2025 on Cherry Red Records!
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CD 1 contains JoBoxers’ classic debut album ‘Like Gangbusters’ plus the never released on CD, cassette edition bonus track ‘Between The Scenes’, B-sides, single versions, extended 12” mixes and the excellent non-album single ‘Jealous Love’.
CD 2 comprises recordings for their originally unissued second and third albums ‘Skin & Bone’ and ‘Missing Link’ including 12 previously unissued recordings tracked down by JoBoxers’ bassist Chris Bostock in Sony’s vaults and Hansa Studios in Berlin. Includes the single ‘Is This Really The First Time (You’ve been in Love?)’ and its B-sides plus more extended mixes.
CD3 shows the band at the height of their powers with a full set recorded live at The Phoenix Theatre in London on 25 June 1983 featuring powerful live versions of ‘Boxerbeat’, ‘Just Got Lucky’, ‘Johnny Friendly’ and ‘She’s Got Sex’ plus brilliant covers of Georgie Fame’s ‘Fully Booked’, Kansas Joe McCoy’s ‘Why Don’t You Do Right?’ and the Bobby Womack and King Curtis penned ‘Jealous Love’, first recorded by Wilson Pickett.