Lou Rawls - Anthology (2000)

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Artist: Lou Rawls
Title: Anthology
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Capitol Records
Genre: Soul, R&B, Funk
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 01:39:21
Total Size: 242/643 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1:
01. What Makes The Ending So Sad (Remastered 2000) 2:33
02. Blues Is A Woman (Remastered/2000) 3:00
03. Willow Weep For Me (Remastered/2000) 5:59
04. (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue (Remastered 2000) 3:04
05. Kansas City (Remastered/2000) 2:13
06. Tobacco Road (Remastered 2000) 4:01
07. (They Call It) Stormy Monday (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 3:01
08. St. James Infirmary (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 4:08
09. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 2:38
10. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 4:41
11. Street Corner Hustler Blues (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 3:48
12. World Of Trouble (Live At Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 1966 / Remastered 2000) 3:54
13. Memory Lane (Remastered 2000) 2:19
14. Old Man's Memories (Remastered 2000) 2:12
15. It Was A Very Good Year (Remastered 2000) 2:50
16. A Whole Lotta Woman (Remastered 2000) 2:40

CD 2:
01. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (Remastered 2000) 2:14
02. You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches (Remastered 2000) 2:35
03. Trouble Down Here Below (Remastered 2000) 2:18
04. Dead End Street (Remastered/2000) 1:37
05. Dead End Street (Remastered 2000) 2:22
06. Show Business (Remastered 2000) 0:55
07. Show Business (Remastered 2000) 2:35
08. Scotch & Soda (Remastered 2000) 2:59
09. My Ancestors (Remastered/2000) 3:09
10. Hang-Ups (Remastered 2000) 2:53
11. You're Good For Me (Remastered 2000) 3:16
12. Soul Serenade (Remastered/2000) 2:28
13. Down Here On The Ground (Remastered 2000) 3:38
14. Your Good Thing (Is About To End) (Remastered/2000) 2:53
15. I Can't Make It Alone (Remastered 2000) 3:02
16. You've Made Me So Very Happy (Remastered/2000) 4:27
17. Bring It On Home (Remastered 2000) 2:59

True, this two-CD compilation of 1962-1970 tracks isn't the most balanced Lou Rawls retrospective, as it favors his early soul output and has nothing from his commercial peak in the late '70s with Philadelphia International. It's also true that if you favor Rawls at his earthiest, you'll likely find this the best Rawls compilation available. Not that Rawls ever got too down 'n' dirty, but these are the songs on which his bluesiest leanings came most to the fore, leavened by various degrees of jazz and pop. His three big Capitol hits ("Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," "Dead End Street," and "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)") are all here, but the 33-song program includes a good many other satisfying outings that most listeners will have never heard. There's the previously unreleased 1962 cover of Sam Cooke's "What Makes the Ending"; the odd soul-jazz reading of "It Was a Very Good Year"; and the first-rate soul of 1967's "You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches." The somewhat weird "Down Here on the Ground" is soul-pop tinged by disoriented psychedelic allusions in the lyrics about wanting to fly, and a bad-trip swirl of strings; co-written by Lalo Schifrin and folk-pop one-hit wonder Gale Garnett, it was used in the Cool Hand Luke movie. It's not all soul; indeed, there are a few smoothies like "Willow Weep for Me" and straight jazz interpretations that are among the less interesting selections. On the other hand, cuts like "Dead End Street" and "Blues Is a Woman" show Rawls to be one of the more talented songwriters of hard-luck blues-soul-jazz tunes, though he penned just a handful of the cuts on this anthology.

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