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Features Disc of the day
Luther Ingram
I Don’t Want To Be Right: The Ko Ko Singles Volume 2
(Kent Soul, 2008)
A treasure trove of soul gems by the late, undervalued singer from Jackson, Tennessee.
Luther Ingram’s best-known hit, the Southern soul cheatin’ classic (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right, appears early on this second KoKo singles collection, but the rest of the album has no trouble maintaining the quality, most obviously because the album he recorded just before the label closed for business in 1978 was one of his best ever. Born in Tennessee 1937 and raised in Illinois, Ingram sang with a family gospel group and a teen doo-wop act (The Gardenias, produced by Ike Turner) in the ’50s, was a peripatetic soul man until he met Johnny Baylor (essentially a thug who wanted to be a record biz wheeler and dealer) in the middle of the ’60s. Baylor’s good deed was to make Ingram the focus of his Ko Ko label between 1966 and 1978. Volume 1 covered the period to ’71, the evergreen If Loving You... landed in ’72, but it’s the four tracks that finish off Volume 2 that will surprise you. They’re taken from 1978’s Do You Love Somebody, never reissued on CD as far as I know but which I still return to on vinyl. As the ’70s progressed many Southern soul stars were silenced by disco‘s overwhelming blast, but Ingram actually got better thanks to the merest adjustments of lyric tone (more overtly romantic) and melody (a touch sweeter). The title track of that 1978 album is an infectious mix of polite yearning and desperate lust, while How I Miss You Baby again shows how expertly Ingram pictured the man left lonely and Ko Ko swansong Get To Me has a Hallmark card lyric made palatable by a deliriously happy melody, positive arrangement and Ingram’s vibrant voicings. Earlier, I’ll Be Your Shelter had taken Ingram back to his gospel roots, while These Are The Things drew another raw, accurate picture of that poor fella living alone.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 14/06/2008
Further Listening
Tommy Tate – I’m So Satisfied: The Complete Ko Ko Recordings (Kent)
Soul Children – Soul Children (Stax)
Millie Jackson – Caught Up (Southbound)
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