Sweet Soul Music - Dan Penn, Donnie Fritts, Eddie Hinton, Muscle Shoals sound in general, etc - C or C?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadZxOlZZrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQldHnYWaDU

At least this one has a release pending ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftnY_xx_5Zc

Distro deal!

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/indies/1551706/muscle-shoals-documentary-picked-up-by-magnolia-pictures-during#Dr8E5WCkJvrdOD1l.03

Awesome.

Just saw the movie doc yesterday. Mostly good telling of the story and some great old clips plus recent interviews. Rick Hall has had some heartbreak in his life. Bad---too much Bono barely any Dan Penn; and not enough interview questions to the African-American artists re race issues.

Touching moment afterwards in the q & a with the director, when a woman stands up and says, "Hi, I'm Wilson Pickett's youngest daughter," and then she proceeds to thank the director for the portions of the movie regarding her father

Some great Aretha and Etta and Candi performance footage. Lots of anecdotes-- I did not know that "Respect" was recorded in NYC with the Muscle Shoals band (minus the horn player who Aretha's then husband believed was getting flirtatious with Aretha)

Ooh, can't wait to see it!

want to see!

how did i miss this thread? i love the donnie fritts album.

awesome, v excited

I saw it at the AFI Docs film fest, director said general release will happen in September

More anecdotes:
I did not know that Duane Allman encouraged Wilson Pickett to cover "Hey Jude".

A consulting producer on the film, writer Holly George-Warren, did a presentation at the EMP Pop Conference in New Orleans that went into way more detail re Arthur Alexander, great singer, produced by Rick Hall, who had songs covered by the Stones and Beatles and Bob Dylan. Mick and Keith do talk briefly in the doc about Arthur at least.

I need to listen to Donnie Fritts. Who is in the movie if I recall correctly.

Regretting that I never saw Wilson Pickett perform. The footage of him in this is great.

I need to check and see if this will be screened in Muscle Shoals. I would think so, and if that's the case I might drive over and see it there.

The director said they already did a special screening down there for some of the folks that are in the movie. Oh, the movie also devotes a fair amount of attention to the Allman Brothers and Lyrnard Skynard. "Sweet Home Alabama" plays over part of the closing credits. This part of the movie did not interest me as much (but that's my music tastes).

Was looking at "Muscle Shoals" in twitter, and saw a funny tweet from a college kid working at a CVS down there wondering why folks with British accents were in the store.

Also, this just happened:

http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/post_44.html

http://www.timesdaily.com/news/local/article_127ef32a-da1f-11e2-a98d-10604b9f1ff4.html

Muscle Shoals Sound studio (the studio owned at one point by the musicians--not the Fame Studio of Rick Hall) has now been bought by the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation. The person who had owned it would not let the movie documentary folks inside.

Muscle Shoal's Dan Penn re Bobby Bland (an old interview reposted)but he also talks a lot about the role of radio back then and what he discovered via it

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/jun/25/issue-2728-bobby-blands-influential-voice/

When I was living there in the 90s, the original Muscle Shoals Sound building at 3614 Jackson Hwy was a run down washer-dryer repair and parts shop. It made me sad. The studio itself had moved to a larger structure a few miles away by then. I'm glad they're finally taking steps to preserve the original.

http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=827e9dcf-98b7-4b01-a504-81bdf2f9acb7

Opening

10/4/2013
Brooklyn, NY: Nitehawk 3
Chicago, IL: Landmark's Century Centre Cinema

10/5/2013
Bridgeport, CT: Bijou Theatre

10/10/2013
Miami, FL: O Cinema

10/11/2013
Asbury Park, NJ: The ShowRoom
Berkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas 10
Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema 9
Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon Cinema
Nashville, TN: Belcourt Theatre
Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse
San Diego, CA: Ken Cinema
San Francisco, CA: Opera Plaza Cinemas 4
Santa Fe, NM: The Screen
West Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre

10/14/2013
San Rafael, CA: Smith Rafael Film Center

10/18/2013
Atlanta, GA: Midtown Art Cinemas 8
Bellingham, WA: Pickford Film Center 3
Birmingham, AL: Edge 12
Denver, CO: Chez Artiste
Durham, NC: Carolina Theatre - Durham
Florence, AL: Regency 12
Greensboro, NC: Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema
Little Rock, AR: Market Street Cinema
Palm Desert, CA: Cinemas Palme D'Or 7
Seattle, WA: Varsity Theatre
Tallahassee, FL: Tallahassee Film Society / All Saints Cinema
Washington, DC: West End Cinema
West Newton, MA: West Newton Cinema 6
Winston-Salem, NC: Aperture Cinema

10/22/2013
Boulder, CO: Boedecker Theater

10/24/2013
Milwaukee, WI: University of WI - Union Theatre

10/25/2013
Asheville, NC: Carolina Asheville 14
Athens, GA: Cine Theatre
Mobile, AL: Crescent Theatre
Montgomery, AL: Capri Community Film Society
San Luis Obispo, CA: Palm Cinema

11/1/2013
Bellingham, WA: Pickford Film Center 3
Charleston, SC: Terrace Theatre
Richmond, VA: Criterion Cinemas at Movieland

11/3/2013
Ooltewah, TN: Barking Legs Theater

11/5/2013
Boulder, CO: International Film Series

11/11/2013
Albuquerque, NM: Guild
Lafayette, LA: Acadiana Center for the Arts

11/15/2013
Fort Worth, TX: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Park City, UT: Park City Film Series

11/26/2013
Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts

12/26/2013
Huntsville, AL: Flying Monkey Arts Center

Go see it (despite the movie having some flaws)

Tonight on Late Show with David Letterman, catch a special musical performance from the film Muscle Shoals, featuring R&B legend Candi Staton, Jason Isbell, John Paul White (The Civil Wars) and The Swampers (Spooner Oldham, Jimmy Johnson & David Hood). They will perform "I Ain't Easy To Love" which is featured in the Magnolia Pictures film Muscle Shoals, in theaters now & available on iTunes and On Demand everywhere.

Oh y'all, so good!

I won free tickets and saw it again.

kill Bono

I didn't mind anything Bono had to say, but his fucking stupid glasses were killing me.

heard mixed reviews of this from a few friends.
one friend was real bummed that they didn't talk to penn/oldham abt their songwriting at all.

If you go into it with the knowledge that it's largely the story of Rick Hall and what was going on in his sphere, you'll realize that veering off into things like Penn and Oldham talking about the writing process didn't have any relevance to the story being told. Anecdotes, perhaps. But no real meaty content.

yeah, i think it was a problem of her expectations w/r/t the film.

That said, I'd like to think there is A LOT of good interview excerpts that would show up on a dvd release.

Joe McEwen talking about Dan Penn on Peter Guralnick's blog:

http://www.peterguralnick.com/post/40594431605/a-word-from-mr-c-dan-penn-the-fame-recordings

This is coming to my town next month, with a post-screening q&a with the director! Can't wait.

If you go into it with the knowledge that it's largely the story of Rick Hall and what was going on in his sphere, you'll realize that veering off into things like Penn and Oldham talking about the writing process didn't have any relevance to the story being told. Anecdotes, perhaps. But no real meaty content.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 21, 2013

Not sure I buy this completely. I think adding more in about Hall benfited from Arthur Alexander's singing and songwriting early on; and about how Hall benefited from Penn/Oldham's writing and from Candi Staton and others vocals, would tell a fuller and more complete story about Rick Hall and the studio and region. Instead we got more Bono, plus Skynard.

about how Hall benefited

You act like Bono was all over the film. He had probably a minute of screen time.

Alright, then how about a minute less of Skynard, who Hall didn't really work with.

watched it tonight - loved it

I didn't really know anything about Hall's personal life going in - helluva lot of tragedy he's carried around with him.

:D

Any word yet on when PBS is going to air it? I should've gone back for a second screening while it was here.

Monday April 21, 2014 - 9-11pm ET

(according to the PBS/Independent Lens site)

Yes!

also I need to FP curmudgeon for suggesting there be LESS skynyrd

cmon mayne

If the choice is between Muscle Shoals soul folks and Skynyrd, I have to stand my ground and stick with the soul folks

imagine there's a skynyrd, and a muscle shoals

imagine alllll the peeeeeoppllleeee

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2014/09/today_tickets_on_sale_for_perc.html

Percy Sledge has liver cancer and the following folks are doing a benefit show to help him with his expenses: Eddie Floyd, Pat Upton, Gary Baker, Walt Aldridge, Donnie Fritts, The Decoys, Travis Wammack and Three Wheel Drive are scheduled to perform on September 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marriott Shoals Conference Center

Best wishes to Percy.

Tried to watch that doc but it was painful. Of the talking heads I'll take Keef and Jimmy Cliff and leave the rest.

Looking forward to Ed King and Gregg Allman though.

ok

Changed it up. Watched "A Band Called Death" instead.

Okay giving this another try. That Irish guy with the tinted glasses I can take or leave.

Just enjoy the good and fascinating stuff, persevere through the rest and don't think about what was left out( that is, how Hall benefited from Arthur Alexander's singing and songwriting early on; and about how Hall benefited from Penn/Oldham's writing and from the vocals of Candi Staton and others; and how all of those folks together made Muscle Shoals)

That's the approach I decided to take, more or less, thanks, enjoy the good stuff, sit through the humdrum stuff, go back to Sweet Soul Music and Get A Shot of Rhythm and Blues for the details.

Yeah, in the middle, with Aretha interviews as strong start & finish.

That interview series concludes today w Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight.
From a group email discussion, my two cents on Respect:

1. As you've prob read by now, Respect is a helluva biopic, if you have any tolerance for the usual biopic arc---which, as reviewer Justin Chang pointed out is def. the/an arc of some artists' lives . quite plausibly Aretha's. within this '52-'72 segment: her father, as portrayed by Forest Whittaker in all evidence I know of (incl. hos own records, with sermons built around for inst "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," heard on black Sunday radio in early 70s B'ham) could be an overwhelming presence, an inescapable influence, for good and bad (deserving his own biopic and biobook), Also, in his own strenuous way, part of the collaborative experience of her music-making, along w John Hammond Sr (reaching his limit, self-admittedly), Jerry Wexler, the initially fraught Muscle Shoals sessions, and with her sisters, whose fills make the title song even more ir-re-re-re-sistable than Otis's original (otehrwise, his and Aretha's versions might be a draw) Another kind of collaboration comes from unexpectedly table-tossing Dinah Washington (Mary J Blige), deliveringl home truths. I've never seen nor heard Jennifer Hudson before, but her singing and acting are otm, in scenes that take as much time as they need. Would like to see the whole mini-series too.

Two hours of v. enjoyable streams, frequently sporting singles I didn't remember as sounding this good, also several I hadn't heard at all, interspersed with (not too many)good comments, backstories:

SWEET INSPIRATION: DAN PENN & TRUDY LYNN
Singer Songwriter Dan Penn is the master behind so many well loved R&B songs, from James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your Puppet” to Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and Alex Chilton and the Box Tops “Cry Like a Baby,” and many more. We’ll talk with him about his prolific catalog of songs, plus stories behind the scenes at Fame Records in Muscle Shoals and American Recordings in Memphis, and scoring his very first with a rockabilly Conway Twitty. Then, from Houston’s Fifth Ward, it’s Blues singer Trudy Lynn, who got her start as a high schooler singing with Albert Collins and Archie Bell and the Drells before going on to her own career in blues and R&B.
Playlists and links:
http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives

Despite having lived in Muscle Shoals for six years, I'm woefully undereducated on the history outside of the big names that came through.

Used to eat in a diner right next door to FAME all the time, though. It was called Biscuit Village and it was fun to take a n00b there and just order one biscuit.

"Is one biscuit going to be enough?"
"You'll see."

And then they'd bring out a HUGE biscuit that was, no exaggeration, the size of the plate it was sitting on. I don't think I ever finished one.

They tore it down a few years ago and now a CVS is sitting there. A goddamn C V S!!!!

can confirm the CVS is still there. in March 2020 its shelves were, overnight, depleted of their toilet paper, because Covid fears were spreading but nobody really knew what to do.

About a block down from FAME there's a meat-and-three place where you can get a four sides plate that'll make you believe in God, though

Inside Fame Studios 1970 pic.twitter.com/q5AfhhlRRY

— Record Lovers (@recordlovers) March 18, 2022

Inside Fame Studios 1970 pic.twitter.com/OLweU73aql

— Record Lovers (@recordlovers) March 18, 2022

that's what I'm talking about

Living Blues magazine contributor, professor, radio dj, Mississippi resident Scott Barretta recently noted in a public FB post that in late July he saw Dan Penn do a gig

Great show last night with Dan Penn, now 80, at his former high school in Vernon, Alabama. He played two sets on the stage of the auditorium where he used to perform as a teen. His two sets included his first hit, Is a Bluebird Blue, recorded by Conway Twitty when Dan was just 16, the same year he and his wife Linda started dating.

setlist: I met her in church
I’m your puppet
Sweet Inspiration
Cry like a baby
Do right woman
You left the water runnin’
Dark end of the street
Out of left field
Nobody’s Fool
Woman Left Lonely
I’m Living Good
Old Folks
Is a Bluebird Blue?
Nine Pound Steel
Memphis Women and Fried Chicken
I Do
Junkyard Junkie
In the Garden
Old Shep - (used to play on this stage in HS)
I Hate You
Zero Willpower

Dan Penn has upcoming gigs in Columbus, Ga and Memphis, TN

Speaking of gigs---knew Hendrix played with Little Richard, the Isleys, many more, but didn't know about this:

Wilson Pickett, backed by a 23-year-old Jimi Hendrix on guitar, 1966. pic.twitter.com/f6LeGulmfn

— Sheet Music Library (PDF) (@LibrarySheet) September 3, 2022

Nice

Seconded.

Has anyone read that recent WIlson Pickett bio?

Hadn't heard of that, thanks! He and I are from the same town, which now hosts the annual Wilson Pickett Festival, but have heard that his family urged him to migrate back when he was more outspoken than was safe for a young Black man in the Alabama boonies (still not a sure thing, but somewhat better).
Speaking of his work w soon-to-be-famous Rock-identified guitarists, I 'ppreciate the contribution as accompanist that Duane Allman brought to their cover of "Hey Jude," and the fact that he talked Pickett and Wexler into doing it at all, but the solos are a bit predictable, and prefer the crispness of this (the original of which featured more organ than guitar, I think):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbphIqZTMQw

But yeah okay got to give it up, still good on the radio etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbphIqZTMQw

oops, meant to do this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPki6mUDzOw

ANTI- RECORDS TO RELEASE 20th ANNIVERSARY RE-ISSUE OF SOUL LEGEND SOLOMON BURKE’S 2002 ALBUM
‘DON’T GIVE UP ON ME’

OUT NOVEMBER 18

Solomon Burke, the King of Rock & Soul, the Bishop, was a big man with an even bigger talent and a revered vocalist whose mastery is unmatched by any other proponent of the style he largely originated. Burke embodied deep soul with a fifty-plus year career that produced a series of records consistently profound in emotional, artistic and spiritual gravity. Today ANTI- Records is announcing a 20th anniversary re-issue of his 2002 album ’Don’t Give Up On Me’ which features an all-star roster of song contributors including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits and Joe Henry. The re-issued vinyl will be available on November 18 in black and a limited edition opaque red and a clear version in Europe.

Pre-order it here: https://solomonburke.ffm.to/dontgiveuponme

In 2002 music critic Peter Guralnick noted, ”Burke has served far too long as "The King In Exile"; despite a towering reputation among peers and fans alike, and his 2001 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the singer remains somewhat of a mystifyingly under-appreciated figure. With the release of ’Don't Give Up On Me’ the widely acknowledged King of Rock & Soul is liable to ascend to a height equal to his glorious 1960s reign at Atlantic Records.”

In addition to the contributors listed above, legendary veteran writers like Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil all contributed commercially unreleased original compositions, either specifically custom tailored to, or innately suited for the interpretive genius of this unrivaled singer. Never before has such a cross-section of revered pop talent enthusiastically converged on one album, but there are precious few vocalists on the aerie artistic level of Solomon Burke.

‘Don't Give Up On Me’ was recorded live in the studio over a four-day period, with an ensemble anchored by Burke's church organist Brother Rudy Copeland. Produced by Joe Henry, the record also features contributions from Daniel Lanois and revered gospel outfit The Blind Boys of Alabama.

On working with Burke producing this record, Joe Henry wrote: “I was simply a facilitator. And I say this not to diminish my contributions to the man’s story, nor his ultimate appreciation of them; but I can see as well that though many of the songs written for him and offered up to the project ––and by historically significant songwriters–– hung and clung, at first blush, like ill-fitting clothes...he was like Matisse: the subject ––be that a vase of flowers, a bowl of fruit; a reclining nude I Need A Holiday –– was of little consequence; for he would use them regardless to speak exactly as he meant to, transfiguring their familiar forms beyond architecture and into something with far more ethereal and spiritual implications.”

Burke's vocals, power undiminished and tempered by decades of performing and recording experience, is nothing less than a force of nature. With a healthy dose of honky-tonk weeper psychology and the clinical reality of his training as a mortician (a business he was still active in at the time), Burke has unique philosophical and physiological insights into the human condition, that infuse the delivery of his songs.

"The entire album was very exciting, and it was heartrending to think all these writers, the Bob Dylans, Elvis Costello's, would even think of me,” Burke said. “I would characterize these as art, pieces of art, songs that were designed in some way with me in mind, in each one of these writers’ minds--all of them are beautiful. I wanted each piece of that art to hang in my own palace. To me, they all belong in a special place. It was remarkable."

1. Don’t Give Up On Me
2. Fast Train
3. Diamond In Your Mind
4. Flesh And Blood
5. Soul Searchin’
6. Only A Dream
7. The Judgement
8. Stepchild
9. The Other Side Of The Coin
10. None Of Us Are Free
11. Sit This One Out

For More Info on Solomon Burke, Contact:
Kelly Kettering | ANTI- Records Publicity |kelly at epitaph dot com

I really wanted to like this album, and I gave it another try after discovering his two Rounder albums from the '80s, Soul Alive! and A Change Is Gonna Come (both recommended), but it hasn't connected. I feel like his singing lost too much command, and unfortunately the record's built around his voice. There are singers like Billie Holiday who made something great from their disintegrating voices, but Burke's phrasing was never that inventive - with him, it was much more about presence, and he sounds too diminished here compared to his earlier recordings.

Too bad because there are some interesting song choices here like Dylan's "Stepchild" (an otherwise unreleased song from his short but bizarre Vegas-style tour) and two underrated Van Morrison gems ("Only a Dream," "Fast Train") from his 2002 album Down the Road.

Is it this one? Good track from a good alb, there's also a suitable live version by JLL somewhere, but not seeing it today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeqPCPNQfU

I haven't heard the Burke, just passing along the news.

Yes, that's the one! Jerry Lee Lewis and Solomon Burke recorded different versions of that song though, and I'm not sure how much of Burke's may have been rewritten for him or rewritten by himself (IIRC he seems to ad lib on the fly, name-dropping Dylan.)

FWIW, Dylan changed the lyrics a few times on that 1978 tour, which you can see here: https://dylanchords.info/00_misc/am_I_your_stepchild.htm

Anyway, people should still check out the album if they like Burke because quite a few DID like it when it came out. It even placed at #12 on that year's Pazz & Jop poll.

Stax Records Founder Jim Stewart, Who Introduced Soul Legends, Dies at 92

RIP

The social media posts coming from the Stax Museum have been moving, particularly their retelling of his first public appearance there, when he donated his fiddle and surviving members of the Stax label (artists and staff alike) paid tribute. He really was a good guy who got into the business for the right reasons, and it sucks that Atlantic and then CBS screwed him and Stax over.

Bob Mehr's obit is really good:

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/

(Also speaking of Atlantic, apparently Ahmet Ertegun is being investigated for sexual assault against two different women.

Speaking of Stax, did yall see this? Posted by unperson on Rolling Reissues:

Stax Records and Craft Recordings are proud to announce the release of multiple new titles paying homage to the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert which took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20th, 1972. Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection, Wattstax: The Complete Concert, and The Best of Wattstax, plus 2-LP reissues of the original soundtrack albums Wattstax: The Living Word and The Living Word: Wattstax 2 will all be released on February 24 and are available for pre-order today.
In celebration of the 1973 Columbia Pictures music documentary, Sony Pictures will re-release Wattstax at participating Alamo Drafthouse locations throughout the U.S. from February 24.

Created in conjunction with the annual Watts Summer Festival to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts uprising in Los Angeles, the Wattstax benefit concert was attended by more than 100,000 people. It featured performances from Stax Records’ most popular artists of the time, including, but not limited to, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas and The Bar-Kays. These releases are the first complete audio collections of what Wattstax creator and then-President of Stax Records, Al Bell calls the “most jubilant celebration of African American music, culture, and values in American history.”

Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection is a 12-CD box set featuring the complete 1972 L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert plus recordings from the Summit Club, including 31 previously unreleased tracks across the collection. These recordings are housed in a folio with a 76-page, full-color book featuring an introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and new essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway. A previously unreleased version of the iconic soul funk anthem “Theme From Shaft” by the legendary Isaac Hayes from his headline set at Wattstax is available to stream and download here today.

Wattstax: The Complete Concert includes the full L.A. Memorial Coliseum concert and is available on both 6-CD and 10-LP formats. In addition to musical performances, it features all the speeches and other stage banter from the event, including event MC, the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s often referenced “I Am Somebody” speech. Both formats of this collection include the full-color book with introduction by Wattstax creator Al Bell, and essays by Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway that is also included in Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection.

A 1-CD title, The Best of Wattstax, brings together a handpicked selection of twenty of the best musical performances from the Wattstax concert. Including performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, Kim Weston, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Albert King, Eddie Floyd and more, and serves as a great introduction to the event and the many iconic artists that it featured.

Newly cut from the original analog tapes, reissues of the two original soundtrack albums Wattstax: The Living Wordand The Living Word: Wattstax 2—which feature highlights from the concert and subsequent documentary film—will also each be reissued on 2-LP formats on the same date.

Just now saw this, in xgau's freed-up 2022 reviews, on his site:

Dusty Springfield: Dusty Sings Soul (Ace) Still in her twenties with a vast if less than consistently canonical African-American songbook hers to convey to a wide-open '60s U.K. youth market, she applies her considerable heart, enthusiasm, IQ, and let us not forget voice to its array ("Can I Get a Witness," "Nothing," "Oh No Not My Baby," "All Cried Out") **

more from him:

Ann Peebles: Greatest Hits (Hi '15) Beyond the towering Aretha Franklin--plus Etta James and Mavis Staples and if you insist Diana Ross via their respective side doors--soul music was short on heroines. I mean, the outspoken Millie Jackson and after that who? Sure I could pull a few more out of my memory book, as maybe you could yours. But this lean, clean, tough, sweet, lucid St. Louis woman, married 48 years to Memphis native and Hi Records songwriting stalwart Don Bryant though a stroke ended her performing career in 2012, was and remains more memorable than that. Beyond the towering Al Green, she was the most distinctive singer ever to hook up with Hi Rhythm, regarded by many who should know as the equal of the Stax-Volt and Muscle Shoals bands and by more than one as the class of the field. "Part Time Love" was her 1970 breakout. Her 1972 "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" was covered by guess who on her Divine Miss M follow-up. "I Can't Stand the Rain" was her indelible 1973 classic. Too cool to be forgotten. A MINUS

Ann Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: Live in Memphis (Memphis International) It's 1992, she's 45, Howard Grimes lives, and she wants us to know that "Just because I say I feel like breakin' it up don't necessarily mean that I'm gonna go out there and do it" ("I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home," "I Didn't Take Your Man") **

https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/album-review-stax-songwriter-demos-showcase-the-stars-behind-the-big-names/?utm_source=No+Depression+Newsletter&utm_campaign=877f72af22-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_24_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_659325596f-877f72af22-226384157&mc_cid=877f72af22&mc_eid=b850f832a1 Several videos in there too.

https://www.memphisflyer.com/summit-of-the-scribes-a-gathering-of-stax-legends?fbclid=IwAR3pRLeeSgeJ-jtziema0AC0DHSAZ1W5iqUIvXVwqdIqf4aXfZqan2Ex33w_aem_AQtNmt_rve377MyK9KzJanI-PdRqyP0LLoJxsXWmBuU5Svx3hT9f3xU3Z_NRKUOcOLo&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Learning about Henderson Thigpen who wrote for Stax in late years including Shirley Brown “Woman to Woman”

Maybe should have put that on Memphis music thread that includes Stax

There's a Memphis thread? Memphis posts are pretty standard on here too, it's cool.
that xpost Dusty Sings Soul comp isn't on any streams that I've come across, although Spotify has a playlist from whatever sources, might be okay. Meanwhile I just checked hot excerpts of all 24 tracks via label site: https://acerecords.co.uk/sings-sou

Was thinking of 100 Great Records from Memphis thread

100 great records from Memphis

This is cool: https://www.discogs.com/release/4364232-The-Meadows-The-Meadows

I've been mildly obsessed with Wilson Meadows the past few years for his later southern soul stuff (check out Transformation) and never realized he did an album in muscle shoals back in 1981 with his brothers.

My Love Was Sleeping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2fBxLCbeg

Nice song there. Not familiar with Meadows brothers. Will have to dig in