Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Howard Tate
Get It While You Can
(Verve, 1967)
His bulldog didn’t bark no more, but this underrated soul man had real bite.
Over there, right next to the procession of ’60s soul giants who achieved greatness at Atlantic, Motown and Stax, stands a shadow queue of under-sung artists. Their recording life was less prolific, certainly less well promoted and managed, none the less their music and performances still contrived to scale peaks of passion, plumb depths of pain. Witness the first album by Georgia-born, Philadelphia-raised soul man Howard Tate. Produced by Jerry Ragovoy, its 10 tracks rocketed Tate to brief fame, but he’d all but disappeared by the early ’70s. The music, however, lived on in the memory, from strong soul tales (the title track, Ain’t Nobody Home, the poignant, prophetic I Learned It All The Hard Way) distinguished by Tate’s easy, if unexpected flights into falsetto to believable blues conundrums, as in “How come my bulldog don’t bark / When Big Jim come round / When everybody knows / I got the meanest bulldog in town.” When this album was first reissued on CD in the mid-’90s it sparked a massive search for Tate. He was found in New Jersey, reacquainted with Ragovoy and their 2003 album, Rediscovered, was a Grammy-nominated triumph.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 11/01/2008
Further Listening
James Carr – You Got My Mind Messed Up (Kent Soul, 1967)
Garnet Mimms – Cry Baby (Collectables, 1963)
Joe Tex – The Love You Save (Atlantic, 1966)
Previous Disc of the day
-
-
Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
-
Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
-
Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
-
-
Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
end of body content back to top
Footer
Join us on:
© Copyright Bauer - all
rights reserved.
Reproduction of this
website, in whole or in
part, in any form or
medium without express
written permission from
Bauer is prohibited. All
use is subject to our
Terms of Use
|
|
Comments
Comment on this post
If you like 60s sould, hear this.
Posted by TT at 9:56 PM GMT 01/02/2008 Report Abuse
Reply to this post
Howard Tate has a new cd due out on August 12, from Evidence Records. It's called "Blue Day," and it's produced by Jon Tiven, with help from Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere.
Posted by mike at 10:07 PM GMT 01/07/2008 Report Abuse
Reply to this post
Comment on this post