Otis Redding - The Soul Album (Hybrid SACD, Mono)
Otis Redding – vocals [click here to see more Vinyl/SACD featuring Otis Redding]
Isaac Hayes – keyboards, piano [click here to see more Vinyl/SACD featuring Isaac Hayes]
Booker T. Jones - keyboards, piano [click here to see more Vinyl/SACD featuring Booker T. Jones]
Steve Cropper – guitar
Donald Dunn – bass guitar
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Wayne Jackson, Sammy Coleman, Gene "Bowlegs" Miller – trumpet
Charles "Packy" Axton, Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone
Written by Otis Redding , Steve Cropper, McElvoy Robinson, Smokey Robinson , Warren "Pete" Moore, Jerry Butler, Eddie Thomas, Jay Walker , Sam Cooke, James Cox, Julius Green, James Moore, Roy Head, Gene Kurtz, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell
1 Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Mono
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions - Atlantic 75 Series
Original Label : Atlantic
Produced by Jim Stewart, Booker T. & the MG's, Isaac Hayes, David Porter
Reissued in 2024
Tracks :
- Just One More Day
- It¹s Growing
- Cigarettes And Coffee
- Chain Gang
- Nobody Knows You (When You¹re Down And Out)
- Good To Me
- Scratch My Back
- Treat Her Right
- Everybody Makes A Mistake
- Any Ole Way
- 634-5789
Reviews :
“Otis Redding's talent began to surge, across songs and their stylesand absorbing them, with the recording of The Soul Album. In contrast to The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, which was an advance over its predecessor but still a body of 12 songs of varying styles and textures, rising to peaks and never falling before an intense, soulful mid-range, The Soul Album shows him moving from strength to strength in a string of high-energy, sweaty soul performances, interspersing his own songs with work by Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Roy Head ("Treat Her Right"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes a Mistake"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing") and recasting them in his own style, so that they're not "covers" so much as reinterpretations; indeed, "Chain Gang" is almost a rewrite of the original, though one suspects not one that Cooke would have disapproved of. He still had a little way to go as a songwriter -- the jewel of this undervalued collection is "Cigarettes and Coffee, co-authored by Eddie Thomas and Jerry Butler -- but as an interpreter he was now without peer, and his albums were now showing this remarkable, stunningly high level of consistency. Also significant on this album was the contribution of Steve Cropper, not only on guitar but as co-author of three songs.” AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder