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The Best of Music Artist : Sam Cooke Music Label : RCA Release Date : 2005-09-20 Artistopia's Price :$7.99
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As the legendary duo Sam & Dave, Sam Moore and Dave Prater were principal pioneers and architects of golden era American soul music in the 60s and 70s. Their seminal recordings for Stax and Atlantic repopularized by the Blues Brothers films in the 80s produced landmark songs including Soul Man, a Billboard #1 R&B/#2 pop single, and other crossoversmashes including Hold On! I'm A Comin , I Thank You, and When Something Is Wrong With My Baby. These classics and more make Rhino's essential 16-song, single-disc overview oftheir best tracks some of the sweetestsoul music ever.
One of the greatest blues albums of all time, West Side Soul was chosen by Living Blues magazine as One of it's Top Ten Desert Island Blues Discs. The new digipak case contains previously unissued photos and 1960s pluggers (promoting west side gigs) from the private collection of Bill Lindemann. The source material for the CD is now the original 1967 analog stereo mix by Stu Black who recorded many of Delmark's classic 1960s blues and jazz recordings. Complete original 1967 notes by Bob Koester and Bill Lindemann enclosed. With Mighty Joe Young, guitar; Stockholm Slim, piano; Earnest Johnson or Mack Thompson, bass; Odie Payne Jr. or Odie Payne III, drums.
While Sam Cooke certainly made beautiful music in the pop realm, his greatest sides were those made with the Soul Stirrers. When Cooke joined the group in 1950 at the age of 19, he'd already spent 4 years singing with the Highway Q.C.'s. The Soul Stirrers lead singer, R.H. Harris, who quit just before Cooke's arrival, had spent almost 25 years molding the group into gospel stardom through an innovative use of two lead singers matched with utmost energy and sophistication. Cooke initially sang in a style similar to Harris's, but soon took off into his own unearthly realm, writing spine-tingling songs like "Nearer to Thee," "Mean Old World," and the brilliant "Touch the Hem of His Garment," then singing them in his soaring, inimitable style with perfect control of phrasing and enunciation. This is an awesome collection, a record to listen to many, many times--to grow old with. Save it for those days when you need absolute proof that true grace does exist. --Mike McGonigal
Sam Bush's eighth solo album and sixth with Sugar Hill, Circles Around Me, is an aurally inspiring mix of bluegrass favorites and complementary new songs. "I don't know why, but it felt right at this moment in my life to go back and revisit some things that I've loved all my life, which is bluegrass and, unapologetically, newgrass," says Bush. "After all these years of experimenting--and there's experimentation on this record too--I've come full circle." Produced by three-time GRAMMY® winner Bush, the 14-song set includes appearances by Del McCoury, Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas and, thanks to the discovery of an old demo, New Grass Revival co-founder Courtney Johnson (posthumously). The album also employs the phenomenal talent of Bush's band: Scott Vestal, Stephen Mougin, Byron House and Chris Brown.
