Little Willie John - Mister Little Willie John Plus Talk to Me (2021)

Tracklist

01. You'Re a Sweetheart
02. Let'S Rock While the Rockin'S Good
03. Look What You'Ve Done to Me
04. Home at Last
05. Are You Ever Coming Back
06. Don'T Leave Me My Dear
07. All My Love Belongs to You
08. Spasms
09. Will the Sun Shine Tomorrow
10. You Got to Get up Early In the Morning
11. A Little Bit of Loving
12. Why Don'T You Haul Off and Love Me
13. Talk to Me, Talk to Me
14. I'Ve Been Around
15. Drive Me Home
16. I'Ll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go
17. No More in Life
18. Uh Uh Baby
19. Person to Person
20. Until You Do
21. Tell It Like It Is
22. Don'T Be Ashamed To Call My Name
23. If I Thought You Need Me
24. There Is Someone In This World for Me
25. Fever (Bonus Track)
26. Do Something For Me (Bonus Track)
27. All Around the World (Bonus Track)
28. Letter from My Darling (Bonus Track)



This release includes Little Willie John’s second and third albums: Talk To Me and Mister Little Willie John (both of which were recorded in 1958). These LPs offer a solid introduction into this man's special brand of soul balladry, musical feeling, passionate delivery and R&B innovation. He was one of James Brown’s primary influences, and Brown would later use a similar approach for his own more orchestrated ballads, such as "Prisoner of Love" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World”. Here you’ll find the foot-tapping rhythms, spine-tingling styling and the sentimental mood renderings so typical of his personal appearances.

“His '50s work would play a great part in the way soul music would sound. Everyone from Sam Cooke to Jackie Wilson, B.B. King and Al Green has acknowledged his debt to this most overlooked of rock and soul pioneers.” (All Music Guide)

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