Etta James - Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions
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Artist: Etta JamesBrand: JAMES,ETTA
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-24
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Tell Mama
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- Watch Dog
- The Love Of My Man
- I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
- The Same Rope
- Security
- Steal Away
- My Mother In Law
- Don't Lose Your Good Thing
- It Hurts Me So Much
- Just A Little Bit
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- You Took It
- I Worship The Ground You Walk On
- I Got You Babe
- You Got It
- I've Gone Too Far (Previously Unreleased)
- Misty (Previously Unreleased)
- Almost Persuaded
- Fire
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Alternate)
Free Music Notes for Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions
Free Music Review: Etta Bares Her Soul With.....Soul
Hit: 5 Stars
Here was Etta James in 1968 just at the same time Aretha Franklin was electrifying the music world with famed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You she decided that it was an important time to change up her music to put her own spin on what was happening in the music world at that time. So she made one of the biggest decisions of her early career-she left the world of Chess style urban blues behind and elected to record this album with Jerry Wexler and many of the same musicians and writers at Muscle Shoalds who'd given Aretha such a huge leg up as "the queen of soul",a title which generally Etta had once carried. But it wasn't just about competition by any means. Her music had been heading in this general direction for everal years so it was therefore only fitting that everything on both fronts would be so well timed.
The title track of this album is a great proto funk southern soul hit that I've heard on the radio for many years,loved and was honored to have in my collection. If this album had only contained this one song as it's single quality cut I'd still enjoy having it for that alone.Luckily that's not the case. While nothing here quite approches the same level of quality as the hit,as other reviews pointed out this album has no bad songs on it "Watch Dog","The Same Rope","Security" and the witty "My Mother In Law" all have that same stomping uptempo flavor to them while "I'd Rather Go Blind","The Love Of My Man","Steal Away" and "Just A Little Bit" offer some organ heavy Southern gospel/soul style balladry far removed from the bluesier style Etta had in Chicago.
On the bonus tracks things get even spicier,especially since there are in fact a whole albums worth of them here. One hightlite,quite appropriately is her version of "Do Right Woman,Do Right Man" that had spun gold for Aretha and,interestingly enough Etta approches the song vocally more from the point of view of a soul crooner than a soul shouter-giving it a different flavor than the original. "I Got You Babe" is another excellent interpretive number,taking Sonny & Cher's folky pop original and turning it into uptempo southern soul,even to the point of reharmonizing the melody. Her previously unreleased version of "Misty" showcases a somewhat caberet style soul and "Fire"...well is yet more excellent uptempo soul. So on this album you get just about everything that Etta James had to offer for the 60's soul era. Etta was an artist who had a number of different musical periods and she was at this point soon to enter a new one. But that's another story.
Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions Poster
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 24-APR-2001
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