Ecstasy, Passion, & Pain - “I Wouldn’t Give You Up”
Don’t care if it’s Friday night and no one’s on right now. This song is so good. Play it all weekend.
Sweets - “Something About My Baby”
The song is great, but the footage is divine.
Solomon Burke - “Cry To Me”
Here’s the Betty Harris version, too. Listen to both.
Source: youtube.com
Laura Lee - “Are You Doing Me Wrong”
What a goddamn voice.
Otis Redding - “Cigarettes and Coffee”
Laura Lee - “A Man With Some Backbone”
Jean Wells - “Hello Baby, Goodbye Too”
It’s Sunday, So: Soul
Last night Bryan made me a mix, so here’s one for him in return:
Maurice & Mac - You Left The Water Running
Gladys Knight & the Pips - The End of Our Road (TV, 1969)
The Temptations - I’m Losing You (performing on The Smothers Brothers)
Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy
Laura Lee - Wedlock Is A Padlock
Barbara Lynn - I’m A Good Woman
Shirley Brown - As Long As You Love Me
and my two favorites:
Reblogging a silly old post of mine for fellow James Carr lover, milessmiles. Also here and here.
For those of you who want more soul music that I’ve posted, click on the soul tag.
“These Ain’t Raindrops” - James Carr
Remember Soul Sunday? Yeah, I kinda don’t either.
But this week I was listening to James Carr and holy Jesus did that man have one of the best voices in the history of the world. If you know him, you know “The Dark End Of The Street” or “Pouring Water On A Drowning Man” (that’s a link to a vide of him singing live, and I highly recommend you watch it).
So anyway, if you don’t own You Got My Mind Messed Up, you should get it now. You should listen to it all week. You should kick your own sorry ass for having come this far in life without being familiar with a singer who never got his due, a soul singer who was always overshadowed, a voice as great if not greater than so many others we celebrate regularly.
You know how much I love Otis. I mean, I love Otis so much that last night I spent most of a 40 minute drive thinking about how much I’d love to be able to go back in time just to be able to see him live, while also wearing a really cute outfit in which I would dance all night. I didn’t even fantasize about meeting him, just seeing him perform. So when I say that James Carr deserves to be as celebrated as much as Otis Redding, you best believe I am serious. Listen to the way he digs down so deep and kicks you up out of that chair! I throw my hands up in the air and from across the room my friend looks over at me and laughs because my headphones are on and all he sees are two little hands waving and shoulders writhing involuntarily, I am swooning and I can’t help it - plus that goddamn organ and is there someone singing duet? How can you even tell! He’s blowing everyone out of the water.
You won’t hear anything better this week. Trust me.
Source: ohheygreat
Laura Lee - “Dirty Man”
#830: the staple singers - wade in the water (1968, live)
son house knew how to clap. van morrison could put hands together, too. little richard and the shirelles singing about their jesus christ together? they clapped. even early-90s paul mccartney knew how to do it, and then late-90s belle and sebastian knew too. but no one clapped like roebuck “pops” staples and mavis staples, except for cleotha staples and pervis staples and yvonne staples. the staples singers, they were clappers. listen to the staples singers sing more here.
If you guys had any idea how in-depth I’ve studied Mavis Staples’ clapping, starting around 3:44, in this version of The Weight they did with The Band for The Last Waltz. Any idea at all.
Source: abelson
O. V. Wright—“I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled, and Crazy”
Memphis Unlimited (Backbeat 1973).
Here, you want me to make you a mix?
For Matty & Poops
Gladys Knight & the Pips - The End of Our Road (TV, 1969)
The Temptations - I’m Losing You (performing on The Smothers Brothers)
Jean Wells - Keep Your Mouth Shut (And Your Eyes Open)
Eddie Floyd - Bring It On Home To Me
Laura Lee - Wedlock Is A Padlock
