It’s hard to imagine what keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter Doug Duffey hasn’t done in his six decades in the music biz. He was active in New Orleans’ music scene during four different decades (’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s), released several recordings including one on Rabadash Records and has had songs waxed by Parliament/Funkadelic, George Clinton and Rare Earth. Though he wrote the bulk of these tunes in the ’70s, when he presented them to his band Louisiana Soul Revival (LSR), magic happened and hence, this debut.

With its four-piece brash horn section, LSR is the perfect muscle for Duffey’s songs and hearty, soul-ish voice. Leadoff track “Funky Bidneh” bolts out of the chute as the disc’s most infectious tune, yet the swirling funk/jazz sax-fueled “It Ain’t What Ya Do” and the rhythmically grooving “I Don’t Need Ya Anyway” ensure that this isn’t just a one-hit album.

LSR guitarist Dan Sumner did a masterful job in arranging, most notably on the uplifting “Just for Tonight,” where you sense love will somehow work out for the protagonist, even though the outcome is never revealed. On “Do It Right,” sultry background vocalists Betsy Lowe and Naomi Holder step into the spotlight to deliver a helluva hormone-flying performance. Only one song, “1-900-for-Love,” feels like ’60s vintage, hardly the image of revival since everything else seems so fresh and relatively contemporary.