fredag 7 maj 2021

ARTHUR CONLEY/SOUL DIRECTIONS SD 33-243 (-68) US

 


 For more on the man and his unusual story check post on the debute "Sweet Soul Music" - https://monolover.blogspot.com/2017/10/arthur-conleysweet-soul-music-587069-67.html.  This third album was the first after his friend and mentor Otis Redding passed away and you can clearly hear his influence still present. Not only because it contains traces of some of the duos last collaborations and the farewell song "Otis Sleep On", but also for the Tom Dowd production and the ambience at large. Though it wasn't a top seller back then, listeing today I get a whole lot of good contemporary US soul and even if Otis wasn't there in person anymore his spirit sure was.  I hear a nice blend of hard and soft - from the up-tempo and very danceable "Funky Street" and "People Sure Act Funny", over languishing ballads like "Love Comes And Goes", "This Love Of Mine and "Burning Fire", to the gospelish goodbye "Otis Sleep On".  All sung with tons of feeling to embracing arrangements. I've heard he's been called a B-class Otis Redding, but this shows he was a lot more than that. Issued 1968 on vinyl and pretty much all over the world through the years. First UK in mono and stereo (Atlantic 587/8 128). Japan 2012 lim.ed. remastered CD on ATCO (WPCR 27574). Premiere US had label as shown here in a glossy cover.  (YZÄ*)  (ÄHU*)

                                                                                  
                                                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                              
                                                                                
                                                                                 







 

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