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Free Music Review: BLUE-EYED SOUL AT IT'S FINEST~BRAVO DUSTY!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Dusty Springfield possessed the most extraordinary voice with rich & warm velvety tones filled with passionate soul that give lyrics so much depth and meaning making each song a real life experience that becomes an engrossing and unforgettable experience. It has been well known for years that "Dusty In Memphis" is one of the all-time greatest vocal performances ever captured in a recording studio, but for those who have followed Dusty from the beginning this is just one of many timeless Dusty Springfield masterworks! Opening this tremendous collection of peerless performances is the soulfully seductive & definitive "Just A Little Lovin'" and it is amazing this classic winner was not a huge #1 hit and the same holds true for the gorgeous "So Much Love" which is a soulful athem that would have burned the airwaves...a funky classic and huge chart hit "Son Of A Preacher" is deeply soulful rendering all covers pale in comparison. "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" is a haunting tale & brilliant performance that Dusty brings to life and takes you to the middle of a shattering experience full of genuine pathos while "Don't Forget About Me" with its driving rhythm plus hot guitar licks that surround a fiery Springfield vocal make this track burn! "Breakfast In Bed" is funky and seductive with a smoldering Dusty vocal while "Just One Smile" features a haunting & gorgeous vocal showing that nobody does a Randy Newman song like Dusty! "The Windmills Of Your Mind" is a sublime haunting masterpiece as Dusty takes the listener down through the tunnel and out to the other side and brilliantly changes tempos smoothly in this Michel LeGrand classic which is given it's definitive reading here. Dusty is fine and mellow making Burt Bacharach's "In The Land Of Make Believe" a magical musical treat...haunting and passionate performances make Carole King's "No Easy Way Down" and "I Can't Make It Alone" stunning classics making it easy to see why Carole King has stated that Dusty the greatest interperter of her songs!!! "I Can't Make It Alone" originally ended this satisfying set but in the age of CD we have a generous number of bonus treats to enjoy and the brilliant "What Do You Do When Love Dies" sounds like it could have been on "Dusty In Memphis" as does the funky "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" and "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) which both sound like they should have been hits! For some reason radio would not play Dusty past the sixties and one had the feeling that it was because she was so great that she was "held back" from the airwaves (afraid that she would get too much of a hold?) and this was too bad as Dusty was robbed of the career that she justly deserved for all of the incredibly great output produced and ultimately the public was robbed exposure to a masterful singer who had no peer. Fine "Philly Soul" from Gamble-Huff on "Cherished" & "Goodbye" show another great side of Dusty which is displayed on the other Atlantic Records masterpiece "From Dusty, With Love" ("A Brand New Me") which is another desert island collection from Dusty...amazing these incredible songs were unreleased until now as they are great vocals. "Make It With You" is smooth and passionate never before sounding so dreamy and fine and a "Love Shine Down" with gospel infused background vocals feature Dusty at the peak of her brilliant powers in a stunning vocal while soft and flowing on the unusual "Live Here With You". All over the map is a wildly inspired Dusty on the gripping and cooking "Natchez Trace" and a Motown influenced "All The King's Horses" show that Dusty easily could have been one of the top acts on the Detroit label that she loved so much. Closing this timeless & classic set are each amazing performances...supremely soulful "I'll Be Faithful", the haunting "Have A Good Life Baby", a definitive "You've Got A Friend", and the free wheeling "I Found My Way" all show that Dusty Springfield could sing them all like no other...get this masterpiece while it is available in this great form as this priceless collection is a magical musical adventure that is unlike any other! Thank You Dusty and we miss you!!!!Free Music Review: Quintessential Dusty
Hit: 5 Stars
There are a lot of female singers and their respective albums that were just meant to be great. That were meant to be respected, cherished, honored, and remembered. That stand the test of time. This one is at the top of that list. Because of all of that, it is downright surprising that this landmark album only peaked at #99 on the U.S. charts, and barely even did that on the U.K. charts upon first release. How did it come in under the radar?. It's one great mystery indeed. Dusty has shown that she was the best years before this 1969 release, but this only confirms it even more. This special edition CD needs to be part of everyone's collection. It starts off with two nice, lovely ballads called "Just A Little Lovin'", and "So Much Love". You knew by listening to those first two, that this was going to be something special. That it was going to be Dusty's best work ever. It only gets better. "Son Of A Preacher Man" is on here and it is one of Dusty's signature songs. One can't begin to describe how sexy cool this track is. One of the best. Another upbeat song on here is "Don't Forget About Me", a Carole King/Gerry Coffin written tune that is catchy and builds up to a rousing chorus. "Breakfast In Bed" is smooth, silky, and sexy. Made so even more by Dusty's soulful voice. The song melts in your ears. The other big standout here is "I Can't Make It Alone", the 11th and final track from the original album. A great album. "The Windmills Of Your Mind" starts slow but picks up in the latter half. Another compelling vocal performance. This special edition also has 14 extra songs!. This collection could of been released as a seperate album and of been a hit. There are numerous songs here to love. The best is a real up beat number called "Cherished". It's just an infectious track destined to put a smile on your face. Dusty also kicks it up a notch with the rocking "Natchez Trace". In fact, there are more up tempo ditties here than on 'Memphis'. She also covers, quite brilliantly I might add, Bread's "Make It With You", and another Carole King composition, "You've Got A Friend", which went on to become a big hit with James Taylor. Dusty's should of been released. There is yet another King song in these bonus tracks called "That Old Sweet Roll(Hi-De-Ho)". Another song to put a smile on your face. "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" is a Dusty classic. It fits right into the consistency of 'Memphis' and should of been included in the original track lineup. "All The King's Horses" is a cute, toe tapping ditty. That's a highlight too. This expanded edition makes a priceless masterpiece even better. It also makes the two star review look like it was written by someone who doesn't get music. Too wordy?. Oh dear. Feel free to scratch your head on that one. Whatever. The only thing you need to understand and agree with it's greatness is ears and a brain. The vocals here are as perfect as ever. Dusty can always belt a song out, but she never overdoes it. She always does it just perfectly. She knows the right caliber without cramming it down our throats. Her voice is also incredibly sexy. It's sexy without trying to be, Unlike today's female artists who look like lap dancers. Some can really sing but they don't have the emotion or character in their vocal operatics that make a song or the characters in it come to life or have meaning. That was always Dusty's specialty. You can always turn on the radio and hear a singer, but a REAL singer like Dusty is hard to find. Get this CD and find out what everyone is talking about. It's no wonder it was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the most important, quintessential albums ever. A masterpiece.Free Music Review: Dusty's Greatest
Hit: 5 Stars
In terms of how respected she was by so many female singers of her day and beyond, the late Dusty Springfield has probably had a greater impact on America than any other British singer of the entire rock era. From the very moment she came to this country via the Beatles-led British Invasion in 1964 with "I Only Want To Be With You", she showed a great deal of diversity in the material she recorded, including the Bacharach/David classics "Wishin' And Hopin'" and "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", and the Phil Spector-influenced "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me." But maybe her biggest artistic impact was when she took a chance and made an album in the heart of the Southern R&B scene in 1968. That album was DUSTY IN MEMPHIS.
Even though Dusty's final vocals were actually recorded in New York, the basic tracks on this album were recorded with the same group of musicians (including guitarist Reggie Young) who had been featured on hits by the Box Tops and Wilson Pickett, and who would also aid and abet local boy Elvis Presley's 1969 comeback sessions. The relaxed vocal style that Dusty had bought to her previous recordings, minus the vocal showboating of so many divas past and present, aided her so extraordinarily well on this album, most notably on the epochal "Son Of A Preacher Man", which was a large hit for her, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969, and on her version of the 1968 Oscar-winning song "The Windmills Of Your Mind" (from the film THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR). Incredibly, however, given its stature as one of the pre-eminent "blue-eyed soul" albums of its time, not to mention it being arguably Dusty's best album, DUSTY IN MEMPHIS barely even broke into the upper half of the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, peaking at a shockingly low #99. Time has clearly been the equalizer for this album in our time.
The Deluxe Edition of DUSTY IN MEMPHIS includes other tracks that she recorded between 1969 and 1971 that more or less fit in with the R&B groove of the original, although, with the exception of "What Do You Do When Love Dies?" (an outtake from the Memphis sessions), those were recorded in New York and Philadelphia. Again, however, Dusty's vocal acumen shines, notably on the swampy R&B excursions "Natchez Trace" and "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" (the latter written by Tony Joe White, of "Polk Salad Annie" and "Rainy Night In Georgia" fame), and "Hi-De-Ho" (the Carole King/Gerry Goffin composition that would be a Top 15 hit for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late summer of 1970).
Dusty, sadly, passed away in March 1999, just six weeks before her 60th birthday, and not long before she was justifiably enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But her legacy as the pre-eminent British female singer is undeniable, and the best proof of that is right here, in this essential 1969 album, one of the single greatest albums by any female singer of the rock era, period.
Free Music Review: If an album could be heaven, this would be it.
Hit: 5 Stars
"Dusty In Memphis" is an album you can get completely lost in, put it on, sit back, and forget about the outside world, all that exists for the time being is Dusty and Memphis accompanied by the wonderous rhythms and strings of the Memphis Cats, and the sweet soulful backings of the aptly named Sweet Inspirations who complemented Dusty's vocals so well. If heaven could be an album, this would be it.
Several songs will be familiar to even the newest of Dusty fans; "Son Of A Preacher Man" being one of her most famous and instantly recognisable songs, this is the one that stopped Aretha Franklin in her tracks, making her re-consider her decision not to record it, her version appeared a year after Dusty's. "Breakfast in Bed" was covered by UB40/Chrissie Hynde in 1988, twenty years after this album, Dusty's version gives an erotic lush over the vocals; amazingly beautiful, the same could be said for "Windmills Of Your Mind", i just love the slow build on this, i have never heard the original version by Noel Harrison that was used in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair", and don't really want to! No disrespect, but, once you have heard Dusty sing something, it seems almost akin to sacrilege to hear it covered by someone else.
Once again, a look through the list of songwriters may well reduce you to a state of constant drooling....before you have even put the CD on the stereo. Of the album proper (before the bonuses) the original 11 tracks crams in four by Goffin/King; "So Much Love"/"Don't Forget About Me"/"No Easy Way Down" and "I Can't Make It Alone", there are two by Randy Newman; "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore", and the excellent "Just One Smile" which wasn't released as a single, but would surely have set the top 10 on fire. On Bacharach/David's "In The Land Of Make Believe" and on Mann/Weil's "Just A Little Lovin'(Early In The Mornin')", Dusty delivers them both with a smooth, sweet purity.
Of the three albums that Dusty signed up for in the US, two were released ("Memphis" and "From Dusty, With Love"), the third was shelved, as a result we have an unusual mixture of 14 bonus tracks, longer than the actual album! So many tracks, too numerous to mention them all, we have "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-de-Ho)", from the magical pens of Goffin/King, "You've Got A Friend" (Carole King), and heck, "Make It With You" (David Gates), is completely and utterly out of this world. "Cherished", a Gamble/Huff song gives a tiny taste of things to come for Dusty's next album. More highlights, for me....amongst many...."Love Shine Down"/ "Live Here With You"/ "I'll Be Faithful"/ "Have A Good Life Baby"/ "Natchez Trace"....whoot!! Anybody out there wondering why we are such a fanatical lot, us Dusty Springfield fans, my advice is; listen to 'In Memphis', get knocked sideways....and wonder no more!
Free Music Review: Dusty Springfield's masterpiece.
Hit: 5 Stars
I was 11 years old when the British Invasion brought Dusty Springfield a string of pop hits, and I thought she was just about the coolest thing on earth. I bought every one of her singles. But by the time this album came out in 1969, I was a teenager and thought I'd outgrown her music along with go-go boots and white lipstick. I wasn't even listening to Top 40 radio anymore by that time (preferring "underground" stations that played Joplin and Hendrix), so I didn't hear "Son of a Preacher Man" until it turned up on the oldies stations a couple of decades later.But this album hung on. I kept hearing musicians I had a lot of respect for cite it as one of the masterpieces of the 60s, and thought I must be hearing wrong. Dusty Springfield? The girl with the big hair and inch-thick eyeliner?
Yeah. Dusty Springfield. I don't know if there's anybody left who still thinks of her as a lightweight pop singer, but if there is, give them this album. Among the 11 tracks that make up the original album are songs with some of the deepest, most soulful singing you've ever heard this side of Aretha Franklin. (Dusty's version of "Son of a Preacher Man" is even BETTER than Aretha's!) Not just "Preacher Man," but "So Much Love," "Don't Forget About Me," "No Easy Way Down" and "I Can't Make It Alone" are just pure, classic Memphis soul. And even when she takes on a song that couldn't really be described as "soul" like Randy Newman's moving ballad, "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore," or the sly and sexy "Breakfast In Bed" she brings a soulfulness to them that they wouldn't have if anyone else did them. Even "Windmills of Your Mind" a song that every other singer I've ever heard has managed to make both bland and pretentious is lovely when Dusty sings it.
And that's just the original album. The Deluxe edition added 13 bonus tracks. Most bonus tracks are just some junk tacked on to make you believe you're getting more for your money. These are every bit as good as the original album. I would have cut "Cherished" not really a terrible song, but not quite up to Springfield standards. But everything else is fabulous. "That Old Sweet Roll" (yes, the Blood, Sweat and Tears song) and "Goodbye" are especially good. And "Natchez Trace" was a revelation. Who knew Dusty Springfield could rock?
I'm just sorry it took me so long to find this album.