VA - Leo Blokhuis Presents: The Sound of the South - Where Soul & Country Meet [4CD Box Set] (2011)

Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: Leo Blokhuis Presents: The Sound of the South - Where Soul & Country Meet
Year Of Release: 2011
Label (Catalog#): Universal Music [263 245-9]
Genre: Rhythm & Blues, Country, Soul/Funk, Soul Blues, Deep Soul
Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 5:04:32
Full Size: 1.60 gb
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Leo Blokhuis is an award winning author and music journalist familiar to Dutch TV audiences as host of a prime time music show ‘Top 2000 a Gogo’. In his latest ‘sound book’ he writes of the period in the 60s and 70s when soul and country music traditions married together to create country soul and vice versa. The book part is 176 pages of Dutch text and since my near neighbours language is not one of the main languages that I can read I am unable to comment on Blokhuis’ writing skills. What I can say is that the text is interspersed with photographs of significant artists, record labels and a page on each featured song that lists studio details and participating musicians. Clearly a labour of love the book looks great and feels substantial.

Don’t be put off if you can not read Dutch because the ‘sound’ part includes four CDs featuring no less than ninety seven songs from a host of golden evergreens from Arthur Alexander to Irma Thomas to Aretha to Cissy Houston, just four picked at random. Some of the selections are a tad too familiar but maybe couldn’t be left out. Thus we get James Carr eternal ‘Dark End of The Street’, Percy Sledges’ When a Man Loves a Woman’ Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’, Clarence Carter’s ‘Patches’ each one a thing of great beauty but surely owned all ready by just about all lovers of this genre. By way of compensation though Blokhuis selects lesser known delights from Ann Peebles ‘(You Keep Me) Hangin’ On’, Bobby Womack’s take on Charlie Rich’s ‘Behind Closed Doors’ and Kip Anderson’s ‘I Went Off and Cried’. The inclusion of the deeply moving Vietnam deep soul ‘Mama Hold My Hand’ by Troy Seals was a pleasant surprise and clearly Blokhuis knows his subject also including outstanding cuts by Tommy Tate, Lattimore Brown, George Soule and Bettye Lavette.

This more than worthy labour differs from other surveys of country soul by including several cuts on each CD by artists normally classed as out and out country. I have no doubt that some die hard soul fans will find the warbling of the likes of Larry Jon Wilson, Bob Dylan, Cher, Ronnie Milsap et al highly irritating. For myself I found that I actually warmed to a number of country intrusions particularly Delbert McClinton’s ‘Lesson In The Pain Of Love’ and Bobby Gentry’s ‘Fancy’. It’s hard though to justify the inclusion of Elvis Presley’s mediocre and extraordinarily dull ‘True Love Travels On A Gravel Road’. Maybe it’s to highlight how far Elvis had fallen against say Johnny Adams who follows immediately after the snoozeville of Elvis with his classic ‘Reconsider Me’.

::TRACKLISTING::

CD 1
01. Solomon Burke - Just out of reach (of my two open arms)
02. Jimmy Donley - Think it over
03. Joe Hinton - Funny how time slips away
04. Jimmy Hughes - Steal away
05. Joe Tex - Hold what you've got
06. B.J. Thomas - There'll be no teardrops tonight
07. Percy Sledge - When a man loves a woman
08. David Houston - Almost persuaded
09. Dallas Frazier - Mohair Sam
10. Otis Redding - You left the water running
11. James Carr - The dark end of the street
12. Lonnie Mack - She don't come here anymore
13. William Bell - Everybody loves a winner
14. Aretha Franklin - Do right woman - Do right man
15. Don Varner - Down in Texas
16. Irma Thomas - A woman will do wrong
17. Eddie Hinton - Cover me
18. Etta James - Don't lose your good thing
19. Toussaint McCall - Nothing takes the place of you
20. Barbara Lynn - I'll suffer
21. Hour Glass - Power of love
22. James & Bobby Purify - Just like old times
23. Clydie King - Ode to Billie Joe
24. Arthur Conley - This love of mine
25. Bill Brandon - Rainbow road
26. Bettye Swann - Then you can tell me goodbye

CD 2
01. Kip Anderson - I went off and cried
02. Margie Singleton - Harper Valley P.T.A.
03. Sam Baker - Sugarman
04. Laura Lee - It's all wrong but it's alright
05. O.C. Smith - The son of Hickory Holler's tramp
06. Ronnie Milsap - Do what you gotta do
07. Joe South - Games people play
08. Lattimore Brown - Everyday I have to cry some
09. Dusty Springfield - Son-of-a preacher man
10. Tony Borders - Gentle on my mind
11. Tony Joe White - Rainy night in Georgia
12. Homer Banks - The ghetto
13. Jim Ford - Love on my brain
14. Wilson Pickett - Back in your arms
15. Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll be staying here with you
16. Elvis Presley - True love travels on a gravel road
17. Johnny Adams - Reconsider me
18. Cher - I threw it all away
19. Lou Johnson - She thinks I still care
20. Sammi Smith - Brownsville Lumberyard
21. Ella Washington - All the time
22. Troy Seals - Mama hold my hand
23. Delaney & Bonnie - Get ourselves together
24. Baby Washington - Breakfast in bed

CD 3
01. Willie Hightower - Walk a mile in my shoes
02. Bobbie Gentry - Fancy
03. Joe Simon - Yours love
04. Lulu - Sweep around your own back door
05. Spencer Wiggins - Love works that way
06. Barbara Mandrell - I've been loving you too long (to stop now)
07. Rob Galbraith - Jezebel of the morning
08. Lee Dorsey - If I were a carpenter
09. Little Richard - Lovesick blues
10. Clarence Carter - Patches
11. George Soule - What I don't know won't hurt me
12. Ray Charles - Ring of fire
13. Larry Saunders - Stranger
14. Roy Head - Soul train
15. Eric Quincy Tate - I want 'cha
16. Candi Staton - He called me baby
17. Brook Benton with The Dixie Flyers - [Shoes
18. Sami Jo - Don't hang no halos on me
19. Tommy Tate - Help me love
20. Charlie Rich - A woman left lonely
21. Don Nix - Amos Burke
22. Paul Kelly - Hangin' on in there
23. Allen Toussaint - Chokin' kind
24. Mac Davis - A little less conversation

CD 4
01. Arthur Alexander - In the middle of it all
02. Cissy Houston - Midnight train to Georgia
03. Luther Ingram - I'll be your shelter (in time of storm)
04. Z.Z. Hill - My adorable one
05. Travis Wammack - Slip away
06. Denise LaSalle - You'll lose a good thing
07. Bettye LaVette - If I can't be your woman
08. Bobby Patterson - She don't have to see you (to see through you)
09. Al Green - I'm so lonesome I could cry
10. Dobie Gray - Drift away
11. Dan Penn - Nobody's fool
12. Warren Storm - Daydreamin'
13. Millie Jackson - It hurts so good
14. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
15. Ann Peebles - (You keep me) hangin' on
16. Tina Turner - Help me make it through the night
17. Donnie Fritts - Winner take all
18. Staple Singers - Back road into town
19. Maxine Weldon - Just leave me alone
20. Larry Jon Wilson - Ohoopee river bottomland
21. Delbert McClinton - Lesson in the pain of love
22. Jerry Lee Lewis - I'm knee deep in loving you
23. Bobby Womack - Behind closed doors

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