Just a couple days shy of our 9th anniversary and I’m amazed at how much great music I haven’t shared with y’all over the past year. This one is a fairly recent addition, coming my way via the Craig Moerer X Rappcats pop-up back in March of this year. A lot of times when I’m trying to decide what 45s I’ve never heard of and never seen before, that I’m actually going to give a listen there are a few things I’ll look for. Cool labels, cool band names and song titles that either sound like they could be a dance floor burner or a sweet soul number. This one hit on multiple criteria, with a great label design for Scorpion Records, a minor label out of the Silver Springs, Maryland area, plus the almost unbelievably good band name, The Fabulistics, as well as a song simply titled “Absence,” and so into the preview pile it went. Took me about 25 seconds to totally lose my shit and know that I had to have this one, and it only took that long because of that long, smooth intro before those out of this world vocals start up. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and I hope that my absence from this blog hasn’t diminished any love long time fans of Melting Pot have had for me and the music here. I will most definitely be sharing tons of music this Summer and beyond.