1. The Grand Tour – Aaron Neville
2. He’ll Have To Go – Solomon Burke
3. Take Time To Know Her – Percy Sledge
4. I Saw Me – Esther Phillips
5. My Elusive Dreams – Moses & Joshua Dillard
6. Hangin’ On – Ann Peebles
7. My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You – Bobby Sheen
8. Wings Upon Your Horns – Tami Lynn
9. Before The Next Teardrop Falls – The Limelites
10. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Al Green
11. Life Turned Her That Way – James Carr
12. He Called Me Baby – Candi Staton
13. The Chokin’ Kind – Z Z Hill
14. Yours Love – Joe Simon
15. Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad – Cookie Jackson
16. Detroit City – Arthur Alexander
17. Gentle On My Mind – Tony Borders
18. Don’t Touch Me – Bettye Swann
19. Set Me Free – Clarence Carter
20. Behind Closed Doors – Little Milton
21. If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday (Alternate Vocal Mix) – Millie Jackson
22. Skip A Rope – Joe Tex
23. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye – Brook Benton
Behind Closed Doors – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 1 – Various Artists CD (Kent)
Code: CDKEND375
£12.50
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Title | Behind Closed Doors – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 1 |
Artist | Various Artists |
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When Ray Charles recorded his groundbreaking “Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music” album in 1962 he was paying tribute to the music he had grown up hearing as often as blues and R&B. The 23 tracks in Kent’s new compilation take their cue from what Brother Ray accomplished and provide a superb illustration of what can happen “Behind Closed Doors…When Country Meets Soul”.
Most of the artists featured here would have heard country music in their youth as often as Ray Charles, thanks to the big 50,000 watt radio stations that could be heard from state to state across the lower half of the US. Most of them recorded in the southern studios, and often used pickers from the pool of musicians who worked on country sessions in Memphis, Nashville and Muscle Shoals. It’s no surprise that they all sounded as at home with a country song as they did with a straight-ahead slice of soul.
Here you’ll hear some of the biggest soul artists of their time on some of the biggest country hits of the 60s and 70s. Candi Staton does Patsy Cline, James Carr covers Mel Tillis, Millie Jackson sings Merle Haggard, Brook Benton tips his musical hat to Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Green pays homage to Hank Williams, and so much more besides.
Unlike similarly-themed compilations, this CD features only 100% authentic country songs and 100% authentic soul singers. It may not be the first of its kind but it is undoubtedly the best of its kind to date. – Ace Records
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