Classic, of course, but often overlooked outside of random (and not so random) boosters such as the Drive-By Truckers, Neil Young, Nick Lowe and a few others. Gotta love the Staples' "I'll Take You There," Stones' "Wild Horses," among many, many others. The roll call here is kind of awe-inspiring:
http://www.fame2.com/recording-studios/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Good book pertaining to this subject is Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story, by Richard Younger.
― Suspicious Hive Minds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Better than you might expect:
Eddie Hinton's album of late demos 'Letter from Mississippi'
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
timely thread -- was just thinking about getting thisSweet Inspiration - The Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham1. OUT OF LEFT FIELD - Percy Sledge2. I'M YOUR PUPPET - Dionne Warwick3. SWEET INSPIRATION - The Sweet Inspirations4. A WOMAN LEFT LONELY - Charlie Rich5. I WORSHIP THE GROUND YOU WALK ON - Etta James6. I'M LIVING GOOD (VERSION 2) - The Ovations7. TAKE ME (JUST AS I AM) - Solomon Burke8. CRY LIKE A BABY - Arthur Alexander9. IT TEARS ME UP - Jeanne Newman10. SLIPPIN' AROUND - Art Freeman11. I MET HER IN CHURCH - Tony Borders12. ARE YOU NEVER COMING HOME - Sandy Posey13. LET IT HAPPEN (ALTERNATE TAKE) - James Carr14. EVERYTHING I AM - The Box Tops15. FEED THE FLAME - Ted Taylor16. WATCHING THE TRAINS GO BY - Tony Joe White17. IN THE SAME OLD WAY - Arthur Conley18. DENVER - Ronnie Milsap19. DREAMER - Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles20. GOOD THINGS DON'T COME EASY - Irma Thomas21. I NEED SOMEONE - The Wallace Brothers22. HE AIN'T GONNA DO RIGHT - Barbara Lynn23. WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO - Tommy Roe24. LET'S DO IT OVER - Joe Simon
http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Inspiration-Songs-Spooner-Oldham/dp/B004FEDV8A
― tylerw, Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Despite having lived in Muscle Shoals for six years, I'm woefully undereducated on the history outside of the big names that came through.
Used to eat in a diner right next door to FAME all the time, though. It was called Biscuit Village and it was fun to take a n00b there and just order one biscuit.
"Is one biscuit going to be enough?""You'll see."
And then they'd bring out a HUGE biscuit that was, no exaggeration, the size of the plate it was sitting on. I don't think I ever finished one.
They tore it down a few years ago and now a CVS is sitting there. A goddamn C V S!!!!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 20 March 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
x-postMesage from amazon re that UK label compiled comp:Temporarily out of stock.Order now and we'll deliver when available
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 March 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh, no "Dark End of the Street" on that comp. Isn't that their ringer?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 March 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that seemed weird to me, too. too predictable? i don't know. that and i'm your puppet are the big ones i think. comp still looks pretty rad.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 March 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Interview with Donnie Fritts, with some funny stories about his interactions with famous people : http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:funky_donnie_fritts_the_gritz_interview
― She Got The Goldwax (I Got The Son Of Shaft) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Some interesting stuff on this board: http://launch.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/southernsoul/message/59?threaded=1&var=1&p=1
― She Got The Goldwax (I Got The Son Of Shaft) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, the teenage Jonathan Rosenbaum that was hanging around during the early Muscle Shoals days was indeed the film critic of the same name.
― She Got The Goldwax (I Got The Son Of Shaft) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 June 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Other famous people originally from the Quad Cities: Sam Phillips and his brother Jud, who released the first Arthur Alexander single on his Judd Records, Helen Keller, who was born in Tuscumbia.
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGUm2r0cLs
Anyone managed to see this yet?
As a former Muscle Shoals resident for a most of the nineties, I feel like a doc of this nature is long overdue.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Is another one of those awesome looking docs that never seem to get a release beyond the pitch-perfect trailer? See also: Big Star doc, Mekons doc, Wrecking Crew doc ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
This looks great, but yeah, the licensing hurdles don't bode well for a DVD release.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
This getting stuck in licensing hell would be a crime against humanity imo.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadZxOlZZrM
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQldHnYWaDU
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
At least this one has a release pending ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftnY_xx_5Zc
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Distro deal!
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/indies/1551706/muscle-shoals-documentary-picked-up-by-magnolia-pictures-during#Dr8E5WCkJvrdOD1l.03
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw the movie doc yesterday. Mostly good telling of the story and some great old clips plus recent interviews. Rick Hall has had some heartbreak in his life. Bad---too much Bono barely any Dan Penn; and not enough interview questions to the African-American artists re race issues.
Touching moment afterwards in the q & a with the director, when a woman stands up and says, "Hi, I'm Wilson Pickett's youngest daughter," and then she proceeds to thank the director for the portions of the movie regarding her father
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Some great Aretha and Etta and Candi performance footage. Lots of anecdotes-- I did not know that "Respect" was recorded in NYC with the Muscle Shoals band (minus the horn player who Aretha's then husband believed was getting flirtatious with Aretha)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Ooh, can't wait to see it!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
want to see!
how did i miss this thread? i love the donnie fritts album.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
awesome, v excited
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
I saw it at the AFI Docs film fest, director said general release will happen in September
More anecdotes:I did not know that Duane Allman encouraged Wilson Pickett to cover "Hey Jude".
A consulting producer on the film, writer Holly George-Warren, did a presentation at the EMP Pop Conference in New Orleans that went into way more detail re Arthur Alexander, great singer, produced by Rick Hall, who had songs covered by the Stones and Beatles and Bob Dylan. Mick and Keith do talk briefly in the doc about Arthur at least.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 June 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
I need to listen to Donnie Fritts. Who is in the movie if I recall correctly.
Regretting that I never saw Wilson Pickett perform. The footage of him in this is great.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
I need to check and see if this will be screened in Muscle Shoals. I would think so, and if that's the case I might drive over and see it there.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
The director said they already did a special screening down there for some of the folks that are in the movie. Oh, the movie also devotes a fair amount of attention to the Allman Brothers and Lyrnard Skynard. "Sweet Home Alabama" plays over part of the closing credits. This part of the movie did not interest me as much (but that's my music tastes).
Was looking at "Muscle Shoals" in twitter, and saw a funny tweet from a college kid working at a CVS down there wondering why folks with British accents were in the store.
Also, this just happened:
http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/post_44.html
http://www.timesdaily.com/news/local/article_127ef32a-da1f-11e2-a98d-10604b9f1ff4.html
Muscle Shoals Sound studio (the studio owned at one point by the musicians--not the Fame Studio of Rick Hall) has now been bought by the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation. The person who had owned it would not let the movie documentary folks inside.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Muscle Shoal's Dan Penn re Bobby Bland (an old interview reposted)but he also talks a lot about the role of radio back then and what he discovered via it
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/jun/25/issue-2728-bobby-blands-influential-voice/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
When I was living there in the 90s, the original Muscle Shoals Sound building at 3614 Jackson Hwy was a run down washer-dryer repair and parts shop. It made me sad. The studio itself had moved to a larger structure a few miles away by then. I'm glad they're finally taking steps to preserve the original.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=827e9dcf-98b7-4b01-a504-81bdf2f9acb7
Opening
10/4/2013Brooklyn, NY: Nitehawk 3Chicago, IL: Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
10/5/2013Bridgeport, CT: Bijou Theatre
10/10/2013Miami, FL: O Cinema
10/11/2013Asbury Park, NJ: The ShowRoomBerkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas 10Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema 9Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon CinemaNashville, TN: Belcourt TheatrePhiladelphia, PA: Ritz at the BourseSan Diego, CA: Ken CinemaSan Francisco, CA: Opera Plaza Cinemas 4Santa Fe, NM: The ScreenWest Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre
10/14/2013San Rafael, CA: Smith Rafael Film Center
10/18/2013Atlanta, GA: Midtown Art Cinemas 8Bellingham, WA: Pickford Film Center 3Birmingham, AL: Edge 12Denver, CO: Chez ArtisteDurham, NC: Carolina Theatre - DurhamFlorence, AL: Regency 12Greensboro, NC: Geeksboro Coffeehouse CinemaLittle Rock, AR: Market Street CinemaPalm Desert, CA: Cinemas Palme D'Or 7Seattle, WA: Varsity TheatreTallahassee, FL: Tallahassee Film Society / All Saints CinemaWashington, DC: West End CinemaWest Newton, MA: West Newton Cinema 6Winston-Salem, NC: Aperture Cinema
10/22/2013Boulder, CO: Boedecker Theater
10/24/2013Milwaukee, WI: University of WI - Union Theatre
10/25/2013Asheville, NC: Carolina Asheville 14Athens, GA: Cine TheatreMobile, AL: Crescent TheatreMontgomery, AL: Capri Community Film SocietySan Luis Obispo, CA: Palm Cinema
11/1/2013Bellingham, WA: Pickford Film Center 3Charleston, SC: Terrace TheatreRichmond, VA: Criterion Cinemas at Movieland
11/3/2013Ooltewah, TN: Barking Legs Theater
11/5/2013Boulder, CO: International Film Series
11/11/2013Albuquerque, NM: GuildLafayette, LA: Acadiana Center for the Arts
11/15/2013Fort Worth, TX: Modern Art Museum of Fort WorthPark City, UT: Park City Film Series
11/26/2013Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts
12/26/2013Huntsville, AL: Flying Monkey Arts Center
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
Go see it (despite the movie having some flaws)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Tonight on Late Show with David Letterman, catch a special musical performance from the film Muscle Shoals, featuring R&B legend Candi Staton, Jason Isbell, John Paul White (The Civil Wars) and The Swampers (Spooner Oldham, Jimmy Johnson & David Hood). They will perform "I Ain't Easy To Love" which is featured in the Magnolia Pictures film Muscle Shoals, in theaters now & available on iTunes and On Demand everywhere.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 October 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
Oh y'all, so good!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
I won free tickets and saw it again.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
kill Bono
― Simon H., Monday, 21 October 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link
I didn't mind anything Bono had to say, but his fucking stupid glasses were killing me.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 October 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
heard mixed reviews of this from a few friends.one friend was real bummed that they didn't talk to penn/oldham abt their songwriting at all.
― ian, Monday, 21 October 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
If you go into it with the knowledge that it's largely the story of Rick Hall and what was going on in his sphere, you'll realize that veering off into things like Penn and Oldham talking about the writing process didn't have any relevance to the story being told. Anecdotes, perhaps. But no real meaty content.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 October 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i think it was a problem of her expectations w/r/t the film.
― ian, Monday, 21 October 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
That said, I'd like to think there is A LOT of good interview excerpts that would show up on a dvd release.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Joe McEwen talking about Dan Penn on Peter Guralnick's blog:
http://www.peterguralnick.com/post/40594431605/a-word-from-mr-c-dan-penn-the-fame-recordings
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
This is coming to my town next month, with a post-screening q&a with the director! Can't wait.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 21, 2013
Not sure I buy this completely. I think adding more in about Hall benfited from Arthur Alexander's singing and songwriting early on; and about how Hall benefited from Penn/Oldham's writing and from Candi Staton and others vocals, would tell a fuller and more complete story about Rick Hall and the studio and region. Instead we got more Bono, plus Skynard.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
about how Hall benefited
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
You act like Bono was all over the film. He had probably a minute of screen time.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Alright, then how about a minute less of Skynard, who Hall didn't really work with.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
This is the one I meant, at the Country Music Hall of Fame: "Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats:: https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2019/05/11071546/Dylan-Cash-long-exhibit-image.jpg
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/education/school-programs/teacher-resource-portal/dylan-cash-the-nashville-cats/
Much more here, though don't know how it went, with quarantine etc:https://countrymusichalloffame.org/press-release/country-music-hall-of-fame-and-museum-announces-2020-exhibition-schedule/
― dow, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Really appealing Memphis Commercial Appeal feature by Bob Mehr, re The Last Soul Company: The Story of Malaco Records, by Rob Bowman, ethnomusicologist and author of Soulsville U.S.A., a study of Stax. He also wrote the notes to a Malaco box in the 90s. That was for the label's 30th Anniversary--for the 50th, a Malaco co-founder pitched him the idea to write "a lavish coffee table book that would tell the company's complete history." (So it's authorized, I take it, but on this piece, Bowman doesn't always agree w co-founder's comments). "It's the longest-running independent record label in American musical history," RB mentions, and and Mehr specifies, "It's existed in various forms: first as a booking agency, then a recording studio, then home to a hot house band, and ultimately a record label that has flirted with and found success across a number of genres from soul-blues to gospel." Mississippi Fred McDowell, King Floyd, Jean Knight, Little Milton, Johnny Taylor, Denise LaSalle, and (I think) ZZ Hill, many more were on there, and the house band also recorded with the Pointer Sisters, Rufus Thomas, and Paul Simon as mentioned here. https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/03/23/malaco-records-the-last-soul-company-rob-bowman-music-books/4735772001/
― dow, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
Oh, speaking of Nashville museums, the one of African-American Music is intriguing:https://nmaam.org/
― dow, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
And speaking of hit house bands, May will see a legit release of the Alex Chilton x Hi Rhythm live album, from a Memphis benefit show, Fredstock---details in here:Alex Chilton S&D
― dow, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
Just came scross ilxor Alfred Soto's most enticing review of latest Dusty re-collecion:
The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971 collects most of the magisterial Dusty in Memphis (1969), its lesser follow-up A Brand New Me (1970), and a bevy of tracks orbiting the albums like lonely satellites. Yeah, it's all been scooped up before, but the way he describes so much of it, incl. what's highlit in "sparkling new mix," makes me want to get it: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dusty-springfield-the-complete-atlantic-singles-1968-1971/Also liked "Old Soul, revisiting the sounds of Dusty Springfield, " in Feb. 8 New Yorker, much more than I usually do the writing of Amanda Pretrusich.
― dow, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Judging by "Boogie Shoes" on YouTube, most of the appeal of the Alex Chilton/Hi Rhythm live album might be insrumental, which reminds me: here they are with Terry Manning, better known as a producer and engineer at Ardent etc. but his rough-and-ready vocal approach works better with HRS live than Chilton's (comparing just one track to another):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5lyZHzReSk
― dow, Sunday, 2 May 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
(Chilton seems a bit cautious by comparison---their set was a one-off, but so was Manning's w HRS---filling in at the last minute for a no-show, and just taking the plunge, what the hell---this is the only live track on his album, and really seemed like the only keeper---according to the press sheet, he did a Box Tops Chilton parody for kicks, and was ordered to create an album around it, which mostly seemed like filler, but I didn't listen much)
― dow, Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
David Hood interviewed just after news of Roger Hawkins' death (keep scrolling past the ads, or blanked space for same, heh), says it was time, after long-ass illness:https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/david-hood-remembers-fellow-muscle-shoals-music-legend-roger-hawkins.html
― dow, Sunday, 23 May 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
From January---another inviting presentation: Memphis Commercial *Appeal* indeed:
'From Elvis in Memphis': New book explores hometown sessions of the King at creative peakBob MehrMemphis Commercial Appealhttps://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/01/06/elvis-presley-books-from-elvis-memphis-chips-moman-hometown-sessions/4128498001/
― dow, Monday, 24 May 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
Does sound appealing, but probably would be more so if Bob Mehr had written it.
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 May 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
V.tempted by the Elvis American Sound 1969box Mehr mentions---here's an interview w Roger Hawkins in 2019:https://www.al.com/life/2019/08/swampers-drum-legends-hot-beats-and-cold-winter.html
(Also see the upthread link to him and Hood talking about then-recently deceased Jimmy Johnson)
This has some links, and an intriguing quote, “I was a better listener than I was a player and I think the other guys were too,” Hawkins said in 2019. “Because they loved music and they had catalogs of music in their brains, just like I had a catalog of stuff where I could pull out certain things and make it work with newer stuff.”https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/swampers-drummer-muscle-shoals-sound-studio-cofounder-roger-hawkins-has-died.html
― dow, Monday, 24 May 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Maybe my favorite part of his, which I was miscrediting for years, is “Rock Steady.”
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 May 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
xxxxpst So Chilton does okay after all, though yeah of course Hi Rhythm Gang is the main interest, esp. horns and bass, though everybody steps up--most songs go on a little over four minutes and a half minutes; the studio originals were at least a minute shorter, but but we get more solo turns and full Section flexing, comfortably. Fave is the penultimate performance, "Hello Josephine," where a Hi man starts the vocal, Chilton coming in later: a very robust 7:12 work-out, calm as ever. Also: Motown gets the Memphis treatment on "Where Did Our Love Go," with Chilton as okay stand-in for Diana Ross, though this is one of he shorter ones, as it probably should be).Does not sing as high, loud and fast there as on "Lucille" or "Maybelline." Sounds like Pat Boone looking to go rong on "Kansas City." Any of yall heard this one? xgau sez:On the Loose [Hi, 1976]In which Al Green's sidemen, perhaps disgruntled at Al's unwillingness to record their material, get together and cut it. Some stickler for detail is sure to point out that the singing on side two is completely out of tune, but that's OK--so is most of the singing on side one, which I prefer to Full of Fire. One of the more carefully thought out tracks features a mildly malicious lyric about Green himself, but it's the eccentricity of the music, which sounds as if it includes a banjo, that does him in. Loose indeed. A-Anyway, very good music for a holiday weekend, has me looking to go for b-b-q chicken.
― dow, Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
In the wake of Summer of Soul and Respect, Fresh Air is excerpting a lot of archived interviews, starting today w Aretha, bookending Wexler and and Penn; going through Labor Day, we'll also get Gladys Knight, ?uestlove, several others. Did not know Aretha did an autobiography!
― dow, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Dan Penn?
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
Or
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
Penn Jillette?
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
Yeah, in the middle, with Aretha interviews as strong start & finish.
― dow, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
That interview series concludes today w Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight.From a group email discussion, my two cents on Respect:
1. As you've prob read by now, Respect is a helluva biopic, if you have any tolerance for the usual biopic arc---which, as reviewer Justin Chang pointed out is def. the/an arc of some artists' lives . quite plausibly Aretha's. within this '52-'72 segment: her father, as portrayed by Forest Whittaker in all evidence I know of (incl. hos own records, with sermons built around for inst "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," heard on black Sunday radio in early 70s B'ham) could be an overwhelming presence, an inescapable influence, for good and bad (deserving his own biopic and biobook), Also, in his own strenuous way, part of the collaborative experience of her music-making, along w John Hammond Sr (reaching his limit, self-admittedly), Jerry Wexler, the initially fraught Muscle Shoals sessions, and with her sisters, whose fills make the title song even more ir-re-re-re-sistable than Otis's original (otehrwise, his and Aretha's versions might be a draw) Another kind of collaboration comes from unexpectedly table-tossing Dinah Washington (Mary J Blige), deliveringl home truths. I've never seen nor heard Jennifer Hudson before, but her singing and acting are otm, in scenes that take as much time as they need. Would like to see the whole mini-series too.
― dow, Monday, 6 September 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
Two hours of v. enjoyable streams, frequently sporting singles I didn't remember as sounding this good, also several I hadn't heard at all, interspersed with (not too many)good comments, backstories:
SWEET INSPIRATION: DAN PENN & TRUDY LYNNSinger Songwriter Dan Penn is the master behind so many well loved R&B songs, from James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your Puppet” to Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Alex Chilton and the Box Tops “Cry Like a Baby,” and many more. We’ll talk with him about his prolific catalog of songs, plus stories behind the scenes at Fame Records in Muscle Shoals and American Recordings in Memphis, and scoring his very first with a rockabilly Conway Twitty. Then, from Houston’s Fifth Ward, it’s Blues singer Trudy Lynn, who got her start as a high schooler singing with Albert Collins and Archie Bell and the Drells before going on to her own career in blues and R&B.Playlists and links:http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives
― dow, Monday, 24 January 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
Despite having lived in Muscle Shoals for six years, I'm woefully undereducated on the history outside of the big names that came through.Used to eat in a diner right next door to FAME all the time, though. It was called Biscuit Village and it was fun to take a n00b there and just order one biscuit."Is one biscuit going to be enough?""You'll see."And then they'd bring out a HUGE biscuit that was, no exaggeration, the size of the plate it was sitting on. I don't think I ever finished one.They tore it down a few years ago and now a CVS is sitting there. A goddamn C V S!!!!
can confirm the CVS is still there. in March 2020 its shelves were, overnight, depleted of their toilet paper, because Covid fears were spreading but nobody really knew what to do.
About a block down from FAME there's a meat-and-three place where you can get a four sides plate that'll make you believe in God, though
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Inside Fame Studios 1970 pic.twitter.com/q5AfhhlRRY— Record Lovers (@recordlovers) March 18, 2022
Inside Fame Studios 1970 pic.twitter.com/OLweU73aql— Record Lovers (@recordlovers) March 18, 2022
― Tim, Friday, 18 March 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
that's what I'm talking about
― Brad C., Friday, 18 March 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
Living Blues magazine contributor, professor, radio dj, Mississippi resident Scott Barretta recently noted in a public FB post that in late July he saw Dan Penn do a gig
Great show last night with Dan Penn, now 80, at his former high school in Vernon, Alabama. He played two sets on the stage of the auditorium where he used to perform as a teen. His two sets included his first hit, Is a Bluebird Blue, recorded by Conway Twitty when Dan was just 16, the same year he and his wife Linda started dating.
setlist: I met her in churchI’m your puppetSweet InspirationCry like a babyDo right womanYou left the water runnin’Dark end of the streetOut of left fieldNobody’s FoolWoman Left LonelyI’m Living GoodOld FolksIs a Bluebird Blue?Nine Pound SteelMemphis Women and Fried ChickenI DoJunkyard JunkieIn the GardenOld Shep - (used to play on this stage in HS)I Hate YouZero Willpower
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
Dan Penn has upcoming gigs in Columbus, Ga and Memphis, TN
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 August 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
Speaking of gigs---knew Hendrix played with Little Richard, the Isleys, many more, but didn't know about this:
Wilson Pickett, backed by a 23-year-old Jimi Hendrix on guitar, 1966. pic.twitter.com/f6LeGulmfn— Sheet Music Library (PDF) (@LibrarySheet) September 3, 2022
― dow, Saturday, 3 September 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
Nice
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 September 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
Seconded.
― When Harpo Played His ARP (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 September 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
Has anyone read that recent WIlson Pickett bio?
Hadn't heard of that, thanks! He and I are from the same town, which now hosts the annual Wilson Pickett Festival, but have heard that his family urged him to migrate back when he was more outspoken than was safe for a young Black man in the Alabama boonies (still not a sure thing, but somewhat better).Speaking of his work w soon-to-be-famous Rock-identified guitarists, I 'ppreciate the contribution as accompanist that Duane Allman brought to their cover of "Hey Jude," and the fact that he talked Pickett and Wexler into doing it at all, but the solos are a bit predictable, and prefer the crispness of this (the original of which featured more organ than guitar, I think):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbphIqZTMQw
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
But yeah okay got to give it up, still good on the radio etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbphIqZTMQw
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
oops, meant to do this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPki6mUDzOw
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
ANTI- RECORDS TO RELEASE 20th ANNIVERSARY RE-ISSUE OF SOUL LEGEND SOLOMON BURKE’S 2002 ALBUM ‘DON’T GIVE UP ON ME’ OUT NOVEMBER 18Solomon Burke, the King of Rock & Soul, the Bishop, was a big man with an even bigger talent and a revered vocalist whose mastery is unmatched by any other proponent of the style he largely originated. Burke embodied deep soul with a fifty-plus year career that produced a series of records consistently profound in emotional, artistic and spiritual gravity. Today ANTI- Records is announcing a 20th anniversary re-issue of his 2002 album ’Don’t Give Up On Me’ which features an all-star roster of song contributors including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits and Joe Henry. The re-issued vinyl will be available on November 18 in black and a limited edition opaque red and a clear version in Europe. Pre-order it here: https://solomonburke.ffm.to/dontgiveuponmeIn 2002 music critic Peter Guralnick noted, ”Burke has served far too long as "The King In Exile"; despite a towering reputation among peers and fans alike, and his 2001 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the singer remains somewhat of a mystifyingly under-appreciated figure. With the release of ’Don't Give Up On Me’ the widely acknowledged King of Rock & Soul is liable to ascend to a height equal to his glorious 1960s reign at Atlantic Records.”In addition to the contributors listed above, legendary veteran writers like Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil all contributed commercially unreleased original compositions, either specifically custom tailored to, or innately suited for the interpretive genius of this unrivaled singer. Never before has such a cross-section of revered pop talent enthusiastically converged on one album, but there are precious few vocalists on the aerie artistic level of Solomon Burke.‘Don't Give Up On Me’ was recorded live in the studio over a four-day period, with an ensemble anchored by Burke's church organist Brother Rudy Copeland. Produced by Joe Henry, the record also features contributions from Daniel Lanois and revered gospel outfit The Blind Boys of Alabama.On working with Burke producing this record, Joe Henry wrote: “I was simply a facilitator. And I say this not to diminish my contributions to the man’s story, nor his ultimate appreciation of them; but I can see as well that though many of the songs written for him and offered up to the project ––and by historically significant songwriters–– hung and clung, at first blush, like ill-fitting clothes...he was like Matisse: the subject ––be that a vase of flowers, a bowl of fruit; a reclining nude I Need A Holiday –– was of little consequence; for he would use them regardless to speak exactly as he meant to, transfiguring their familiar forms beyond architecture and into something with far more ethereal and spiritual implications.”Burke's vocals, power undiminished and tempered by decades of performing and recording experience, is nothing less than a force of nature. With a healthy dose of honky-tonk weeper psychology and the clinical reality of his training as a mortician (a business he was still active in at the time), Burke has unique philosophical and physiological insights into the human condition, that infuse the delivery of his songs."The entire album was very exciting, and it was heartrending to think all these writers, the Bob Dylans, Elvis Costello's, would even think of me,” Burke said. “I would characterize these as art, pieces of art, songs that were designed in some way with me in mind, in each one of these writers’ minds--all of them are beautiful. I wanted each piece of that art to hang in my own palace. To me, they all belong in a special place. It was remarkable."1. Don’t Give Up On Me2. Fast Train3. Diamond In Your Mind4. Flesh And Blood5. Soul Searchin’6. Only A Dream7. The Judgement8. Stepchild9. The Other Side Of The Coin10. None Of Us Are Free11. Sit This One OutFor More Info on Solomon Burke, Contact:Kelly Kettering | ANTI- Records Publicity |kelly at epitaph dot com
OUT NOVEMBER 18
Solomon Burke, the King of Rock & Soul, the Bishop, was a big man with an even bigger talent and a revered vocalist whose mastery is unmatched by any other proponent of the style he largely originated. Burke embodied deep soul with a fifty-plus year career that produced a series of records consistently profound in emotional, artistic and spiritual gravity. Today ANTI- Records is announcing a 20th anniversary re-issue of his 2002 album ’Don’t Give Up On Me’ which features an all-star roster of song contributors including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits and Joe Henry. The re-issued vinyl will be available on November 18 in black and a limited edition opaque red and a clear version in Europe.
Pre-order it here: https://solomonburke.ffm.to/dontgiveuponme
In 2002 music critic Peter Guralnick noted, ”Burke has served far too long as "The King In Exile"; despite a towering reputation among peers and fans alike, and his 2001 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the singer remains somewhat of a mystifyingly under-appreciated figure. With the release of ’Don't Give Up On Me’ the widely acknowledged King of Rock & Soul is liable to ascend to a height equal to his glorious 1960s reign at Atlantic Records.”
In addition to the contributors listed above, legendary veteran writers like Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil all contributed commercially unreleased original compositions, either specifically custom tailored to, or innately suited for the interpretive genius of this unrivaled singer. Never before has such a cross-section of revered pop talent enthusiastically converged on one album, but there are precious few vocalists on the aerie artistic level of Solomon Burke.
‘Don't Give Up On Me’ was recorded live in the studio over a four-day period, with an ensemble anchored by Burke's church organist Brother Rudy Copeland. Produced by Joe Henry, the record also features contributions from Daniel Lanois and revered gospel outfit The Blind Boys of Alabama.
On working with Burke producing this record, Joe Henry wrote: “I was simply a facilitator. And I say this not to diminish my contributions to the man’s story, nor his ultimate appreciation of them; but I can see as well that though many of the songs written for him and offered up to the project ––and by historically significant songwriters–– hung and clung, at first blush, like ill-fitting clothes...he was like Matisse: the subject ––be that a vase of flowers, a bowl of fruit; a reclining nude I Need A Holiday –– was of little consequence; for he would use them regardless to speak exactly as he meant to, transfiguring their familiar forms beyond architecture and into something with far more ethereal and spiritual implications.”
Burke's vocals, power undiminished and tempered by decades of performing and recording experience, is nothing less than a force of nature. With a healthy dose of honky-tonk weeper psychology and the clinical reality of his training as a mortician (a business he was still active in at the time), Burke has unique philosophical and physiological insights into the human condition, that infuse the delivery of his songs.
"The entire album was very exciting, and it was heartrending to think all these writers, the Bob Dylans, Elvis Costello's, would even think of me,” Burke said. “I would characterize these as art, pieces of art, songs that were designed in some way with me in mind, in each one of these writers’ minds--all of them are beautiful. I wanted each piece of that art to hang in my own palace. To me, they all belong in a special place. It was remarkable."
1. Don’t Give Up On Me2. Fast Train3. Diamond In Your Mind4. Flesh And Blood5. Soul Searchin’6. Only A Dream7. The Judgement8. Stepchild9. The Other Side Of The Coin10. None Of Us Are Free11. Sit This One Out
For More Info on Solomon Burke, Contact:Kelly Kettering | ANTI- Records Publicity |kelly at epitaph dot com
― dow, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
I really wanted to like this album, and I gave it another try after discovering his two Rounder albums from the '80s, Soul Alive! and A Change Is Gonna Come (both recommended), but it hasn't connected. I feel like his singing lost too much command, and unfortunately the record's built around his voice. There are singers like Billie Holiday who made something great from their disintegrating voices, but Burke's phrasing was never that inventive - with him, it was much more about presence, and he sounds too diminished here compared to his earlier recordings.
Too bad because there are some interesting song choices here like Dylan's "Stepchild" (an otherwise unreleased song from his short but bizarre Vegas-style tour) and two underrated Van Morrison gems ("Only a Dream," "Fast Train") from his 2002 album Down the Road.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 04:04 (one year ago) link
Is it this one? Good track from a good alb, there's also a suitable live version by JLL somewhere, but not seeing it today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeqPCPNQfU
I haven't heard the Burke, just passing along the news.
― dow, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
Yes, that's the one! Jerry Lee Lewis and Solomon Burke recorded different versions of that song though, and I'm not sure how much of Burke's may have been rewritten for him or rewritten by himself (IIRC he seems to ad lib on the fly, name-dropping Dylan.)
FWIW, Dylan changed the lyrics a few times on that 1978 tour, which you can see here: https://dylanchords.info/00_misc/am_I_your_stepchild.htm
Anyway, people should still check out the album if they like Burke because quite a few DID like it when it came out. It even placed at #12 on that year's Pazz & Jop poll.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
Stax Records Founder Jim Stewart, Who Introduced Soul Legends, Dies at 92
― dow, Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
RIP
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
The social media posts coming from the Stax Museum have been moving, particularly their retelling of his first public appearance there, when he donated his fiddle and surviving members of the Stax label (artists and staff alike) paid tribute. He really was a good guy who got into the business for the right reasons, and it sucks that Atlantic and then CBS screwed him and Stax over.
Bob Mehr's obit is really good:
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/
(Also speaking of Atlantic, apparently Ahmet Ertegun is being investigated for sexual assault against two different women.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Stax, did yall see this? Posted by unperson on Rolling Reissues:
Stax Records and Craft Recordings are proud to announce the release of multiple new titles paying homage to the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert which took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20th, 1972. Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection, Wattstax: The Complete Concert, and The Best of Wattstax, plus 2-LP reissues of the original soundtrack albums Wattstax: The Living Word and The Living Word: Wattstax 2 will all be released on February 24 and are available for pre-order today.In celebration of the 1973 Columbia Pictures music documentary, Sony Pictures will re-release Wattstax at participating Alamo Drafthouse locations throughout the U.S. from February 24.Created in conjunction with the annual Watts Summer Festival to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts uprising in Los Angeles, the Wattstax benefit concert was attended by more than 100,000 people. It featured performances from Stax Records’ most popular artists of the time, including, but not limited to, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas and The Bar-Kays. These releases are the first complete audio collections of what Wattstax creator and then-President of Stax Records, Al Bell calls the “most jubilant celebration of African American music, culture, and values in American history.”Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection is a 12-CD box set featuring the complete 1972 L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert plus recordings from the Summit Club, including 31 previously unreleased tracks across the collection. These recordings are housed in a folio with a 76-page, full-color book featuring an introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and new essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway. A previously unreleased version of the iconic soul funk anthem “Theme From Shaft” by the legendary Isaac Hayes from his headline set at Wattstax is available to stream and download here today.Wattstax: The Complete Concert includes the full L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert and is available on both 6-CD and 10-LP formats. In addition to musical performances, it features all the speeches and other stage banter from the event, including event MC, the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s often referenced “I Am Somebody” speech. Both formats of this collection include the full-color book with introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway that is also included in Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection.A 1-CD title, The Best of Wattstax, brings together a handpicked selection of twenty of the best musical performances from the Wattstax concert. Including performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, Kim Weston, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Albert King, Eddie Floyd and more, and serves as a great introduction to the event and the many iconic artists that it featured.Newly cut from the original analog tapes, reissues of the two original soundtrack albums Wattstax: The Living Wordand The Living Word: Wattstax 2—which feature highlights from the concert and subsequent documentary film—will also each be reissued on 2-LP formats on the same date.
Created in conjunction with the annual Watts Summer Festival to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts uprising in Los Angeles, the Wattstax benefit concert was attended by more than 100,000 people. It featured performances from Stax Records’ most popular artists of the time, including, but not limited to, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas and The Bar-Kays. These releases are the first complete audio collections of what Wattstax creator and then-President of Stax Records, Al Bell calls the “most jubilant celebration of African American music, culture, and values in American history.”
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection is a 12-CD box set featuring the complete 1972 L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert plus recordings from the Summit Club, including 31 previously unreleased tracks across the collection. These recordings are housed in a folio with a 76-page, full-color book featuring an introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and new essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway. A previously unreleased version of the iconic soul funk anthem “Theme From Shaft” by the legendary Isaac Hayes from his headline set at Wattstax is available to stream and download here today.
Wattstax: The Complete Concert includes the full L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert and is available on both 6-CD and 10-LP formats. In addition to musical performances, it features all the speeches and other stage banter from the event, including event MC, the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s often referenced “I Am Somebody” speech. Both formats of this collection include the full-color book with introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway that is also included in Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection.
A 1-CD title, The Best of Wattstax, brings together a handpicked selection of twenty of the best musical performances from the Wattstax concert. Including performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, Kim Weston, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Albert King, Eddie Floyd and more, and serves as a great introduction to the event and the many iconic artists that it featured.
Newly cut from the original analog tapes, reissues of the two original soundtrack albums Wattstax: The Living Wordand The Living Word: Wattstax 2—which feature highlights from the concert and subsequent documentary film—will also each be reissued on 2-LP formats on the same date.
― dow, Friday, 9 December 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
Just now saw this, in xgau's freed-up 2022 reviews, on his site:
Dusty Springfield: Dusty Sings Soul (Ace) Still in her twenties with a vast if less than consistently canonical African-American songbook hers to convey to a wide-open '60s U.K. youth market, she applies her considerable heart, enthusiasm, IQ, and let us not forget voice to its array ("Can I Get a Witness," "Nothing," "Oh No Not My Baby," "All Cried Out") **
― dow, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
more from him:
Ann Peebles: Greatest Hits (Hi '15) Beyond the towering Aretha Franklin--plus Etta James and Mavis Staples and if you insist Diana Ross via their respective side doors--soul music was short on heroines. I mean, the outspoken Millie Jackson and after that who? Sure I could pull a few more out of my memory book, as maybe you could yours. But this lean, clean, tough, sweet, lucid St. Louis woman, married 48 years to Memphis native and Hi Records songwriting stalwart Don Bryant though a stroke ended her performing career in 2012, was and remains more memorable than that. Beyond the towering Al Green, she was the most distinctive singer ever to hook up with Hi Rhythm, regarded by many who should know as the equal of the Stax-Volt and Muscle Shoals bands and by more than one as the class of the field. "Part Time Love" was her 1970 breakout. Her 1972 "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" was covered by guess who on her Divine Miss M follow-up. "I Can't Stand the Rain" was her indelible 1973 classic. Too cool to be forgotten. A MINUSAnn Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: Live in Memphis (Memphis International) It's 1992, she's 45, Howard Grimes lives, and she wants us to know that "Just because I say I feel like breakin' it up don't necessarily mean that I'm gonna go out there and do it" ("I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home," "I Didn't Take Your Man") **
Ann Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: Live in Memphis (Memphis International) It's 1992, she's 45, Howard Grimes lives, and she wants us to know that "Just because I say I feel like breakin' it up don't necessarily mean that I'm gonna go out there and do it" ("I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home," "I Didn't Take Your Man") **
― dow, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 03:43 (ten months ago) link
https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/album-review-stax-songwriter-demos-showcase-the-stars-behind-the-big-names/?utm_source=No+Depression+Newsletter&utm_campaign=877f72af22-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_24_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_659325596f-877f72af22-226384157&mc_cid=877f72af22&mc_eid=b850f832a1 Several videos in there too.
― dow, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:30 (nine months ago) link
https://www.memphisflyer.com/summit-of-the-scribes-a-gathering-of-stax-legends?fbclid=IwAR3pRLeeSgeJ-jtziema0AC0DHSAZ1W5iqUIvXVwqdIqf4aXfZqan2Ex33w_aem_AQtNmt_rve377MyK9KzJanI-PdRqyP0LLoJxsXWmBuU5Svx3hT9f3xU3Z_NRKUOcOLo&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Learning about Henderson Thigpen who wrote for Stax in late years including Shirley Brown “Woman to Woman”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 June 2023 13:12 (nine months ago) link
Maybe should have put that on Memphis music thread that includes Stax
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 June 2023 13:14 (nine months ago) link
There's a Memphis thread? Memphis posts are pretty standard on here too, it's cool. that xpost Dusty Sings Soul comp isn't on any streams that I've come across, although Spotify has a playlist from whatever sources, might be okay. Meanwhile I just checked hot excerpts of all 24 tracks via label site: https://acerecords.co.uk/sings-sou
― dow, Friday, 30 June 2023 20:53 (nine months ago) link
Was thinking of 100 Great Records from Memphis thread
100 great records from Memphis
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 July 2023 20:25 (nine months ago) link
This is cool: https://www.discogs.com/release/4364232-The-Meadows-The-Meadows
I've been mildly obsessed with Wilson Meadows the past few years for his later southern soul stuff (check out Transformation) and never realized he did an album in muscle shoals back in 1981 with his brothers.
My Love Was Sleepinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2fBxLCbeg
― Heez, Monday, 6 November 2023 15:56 (five months ago) link
Nice song there. Not familiar with Meadows brothers. Will have to dig in
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:13 (five months ago) link