Cher - 3614 Jackson Highway
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Artist: CherEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-08-11
Music Label: Rhino/Wea UK
Soundtracks:
- For What It's Worth
- (Just Enough to Keep Me) Hangin' On
- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- I Threw It All Away
- I Walk on Guilded Splinters
- Lay, Baby, Lay
- Please Don't Tell Me
- Cry Like a Baby
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- Save the Children
Free Music Notes for 3614 Jackson Highway
Free Music Review: An undeservedly neglected gem... but know what you're getting
Hit: 5 Stars
Let me first state that the disc is NOT the Rhino Handmade version with the 23 tracks listed above, but is, instead, the Rhino Encore European re-release of just the original 11-track album. While the absence of the 12 bonus tracks from the Handmade version is a tremendous loss, what remains is still an outstanding album.
"3614 Jackson Highway" is perhaps the album that most clearly shows the extent of Cher's true talent as a pop singer with an R&B tinge to her voice and interpretations. Comparisons with Dusty Springfield are spot-on. Each of the songs is sung in a straight-forward, appropriately instrumented and produced manner. It is interesting to imagine how Cher's career would have turned out if she had stayed on the trajectory established by this album, rather than going into the kitschy story songs, the campy sketch comedy of the her (and her and Sonny's) tv variety shows, the disco phase and her ultimate near-beatification as a gay icon. Instead, she would likely have been a highly respected singer, though not a tremendously popular one.
In any event, 3614 Jackson Highway is a necessity for any fan of Cher's or of soulful 60's pop/rock.
(Now if we could only get Rhino to release her other (albeit entirely different) neglected masterpiece, "Stars.")
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2008 reissue of this solo album from the female half of Sonny & Cher, originally released in 1969 on Atco Records. Astute Pop/Rock music fans might note the familiarity of 3614 Jackson Highway as the former home of the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. As the Atlantic Records production team: Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin had done six months earlier on Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis album, they chose to juxtapose their Pop diva with a band affectionately known as the Swampers. Throughout 3614 Jackson Highway they are able to create a similar seminal R&B vibe for these sessions. This album reveals that not only did Cher have soul, but the Swampers are the quintessential foil for her decidedly unique style. Like Soul Music serpent charmers, they summon from Cher the most authentic, if not interesting work she had been responsible for. 11 tracks. Rhino UK.Pop Music CDs
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