Mighty Fire – No Time For Masquerading / Mighty Fire CD (Expansion)

The story of Mighty Fire, culminating in two albums issued here for the first time on CD, goes back to the early 70’s. It begins with a talented and promising young guitarist Mel Bolton signing to Motown as a songwriter and producer. He was put to work with Marilyn McLeod who had just moved from Detroit to be with the labels new operation in Los Angeles. Mel Bolton had ambitions for Mighty Fire, so took the reduced size five-piece ensemble to Elektra Records. The band were totally self contained as writers, musicians and producers and presented three complete songs to the label, Love Attack, Missing You, and Love Fuzz which landed them a record deal for the two LPs featured here on this one CD. No Time For Masquerading was released, in 1981, then Mighty Fire in 1982, but neither performed well in the charts and Mel decided to call it a day. Mighty Fire were among the last of the organic sounding live soul groups. Within a year synthetic keyboards and drum machines would dominate the musical landscape for soul and R&B, yet thirty years later there is still a taste for this glorious music, and Expansion are thrilled to be delivering this CD from the original master tapes.