Otis Redding – The Soul Album (1966) [ATCO #91705-2]

Posted By : d-urbano | Date : 04 Feb 2012 01:35:17 | Comments : 6 |

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Otis Redding's talent began to surge, across songs and their stylesand absorbing them , with the recording of The Soul Album. In contrast to The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, which was an advance over its predecessor but still a body of 12 songs of varying styles and textures, rising to peaks and never falling before an intense, soulful mid-range, The Soul Album shows him moving from strength to strength in a string of high-energy, sweaty soul performances, interspersing his own songs with work by Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Roy Head ("Treat Her Right"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes A Mistake"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing") and recasting them in his own style, so that they're not "covers" so much as reinterpretations; indeed, "Chain Gang" is almost a rewrite of the original, though one suspects not one that Cooke would have disapproved of. He still had a little way to go as a songwriter -- the jewel of this undervalued collection is "Cigarettes And Coffee, co-authored by Eddie Thomas and Jerry Butler -- but as an interpreter he was now without peer, and his albums were now showing this remarkable, stunningly high level of consistency. Also significant on this album was the contribution of Steve Cropper, not only on guitar but as co-author of three songs. Further, as revealed in the remastered Rhino CD, Stax Records was starting to put more into his LPs in thew recording, taking more time and delivering a better, fuller sound than on the two preceding albums, especially where Al Jackson's drums and the Mar-Keys' horns are concerned.

--Review by Bruce Eder, allmusic.com-

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Tracklist:

1. Just One More Day
2. It's Growing
3. Cigarettes And Coffee
4. Chain Gang
5. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And Out)
6. Good To Me
7. Scratch My Back
8. Treat Her Right
9. Everybody Makes A Mistake
10. Any Ole Way
11. 634-5789

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Producer by – Jim Stewart, Booker T. & the MG's, Isaac Hayes & David Porter
Digitally remastered from the original mono master tapes by Bill Inglot & Dan Hersch at DigiPrep
©1966 Atlantic Recordings Corporation.
Made in Germany.

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Posted By: firepower Date: 04 Feb 2012 01:52:43

FINALLY !!! A lossless copy!! Thanks!!!!

Posted By: Koyde Date: 04 Feb 2012 02:45:12

Thanks very much

Posted By: freddie007 Date: 04 Feb 2012 03:15:23

Thanks a lot

Posted By: elevation Date: 04 Feb 2012 17:44:03

Fantastic artist - fantastic album. Many thanks for posting this.

Posted By: Kutya Date: 06 Feb 2012 05:39:55

Thank You very much!

Posted By: harrygee Date: 06 Feb 2012 21:46:26

Very, very nice. Thank you.

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