Soulsville
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October 18, 2010 |
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2010 |
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14th |
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43:36 |
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Jim Gaines, Huey Lewis & The News |
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Soulsville is the ninth studio album by the US rock band Huey Lewis & the News , released in 2010 . It is the follow-up album to Plan B , published in 2001, and after Four Chords & Several Years Ago , published in 1994, it is the group's second work to contain only cover versions .
background
The idea of recording a tribute to the artists and soul musicians of the Stax label came from the band's manager, Bob Brown. Huey Lewis stated that the public wasn't exactly waiting for new original material from Huey Lewis & The News. Brown and the band agreed that an album with covers of songs by the Stax artists could serve to bring out something that would interest the audience while drawing new attention to the music of the Stax artists.
The group recorded the album in the spring of 2010 at Ardent Studios in Memphis . As with Four Chords & Several Years Ago , contemporary recording technology ( amplifiers , microphones , tape recorders ) was used in order to produce a sound that was as true to the original as possible. The sound engineer Jim Gaines, who had also worked for Stax and on the recordings of the Huey Lewis albums Sports and Fore! had been involved, produced the album with the band.
Various guest musicians participated in the recordings : Dorothy Morrison sang the duet Respect Yourself with Huey Lewis , Rick Steff played the piano, John Gove played the trombone. As background singers were Bertram Brown, Jackie Johnson, Reba Russell, Larry Batiste, Niko Ellison, involved Cleytoven Richardson, Daunielle "Pie" Hill and Bryan Dyer.
The album was released in Europe on November 18, 2010 and in the US on December 2, 2010.
reception
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In addition to number 121 in the US album charts , Soulsville also reached number 18 on the “Top R&B / Hip Hop Album” charts (also created by Billboard) and number 15 on the “Top Independent Album” charts .
In Germany, Rolling Stone wrote that Huey Lewis & The News played about 100 gigs a year, was "the return on a successful career that rewarded the US classic rock audience with lifelong loyalty". With Soulsville there is now “a reasonably entertaining record” with old Stax songs that are played “confidently and admittedly without any pop compromises”.
Michael Edele says at Laut.de that “none of the 14 numbers are designed for a hit single”, that is not even necessary. Soulsville is “just a pleasant album for a good time”: The band conjures up songs like Got To Get You Off My Mind , Just The One (I've Been Looking For) or Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You “A satisfied smile on the face of every listener.” Even if some songs “might seem rather unknown to Central Europeans: Cry To Me by Solomon Burke should be in one way or another in the world before the turn of the millennium Have an ear. ”Possibly Soulsville is “ actually an album for old sacks ”- but good soul and blues are“ timeless. ”
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | Guest musician | length |
| 1. | Don't Fight It | Steve Cropper , Wilson Pickett | 2:57 | |
| 2. | Got to Get You Off My Mind | Dolores Burke, Solomon Burke , JB Moore | 2:50 | |
| 3. | Free | Alana Davis, Ed Tuton | 3:53 | |
| 4th | Respect Yourself | Luther Ingram , Mack Rice | Duet partner: Dorothy Morrison | 3:41 |
| 5. | Cry to Me | Bert Russell | 2:59 | |
| 6th | Just One More Day | Steve Cropper, Otis Redding , McEvoy Robinson | 3:25 | |
| 7th | Never found a girl | Eddie Floyd , Alvertis Isbell, Booker T. Jones | 2:53 | |
| 8th. | Soulsville | Isaac Hayes | 3:37 | |
| 9. | Little Sally Walker | Rufus Thomas | 2:11 | |
| 10. | I want to do (everything for you) | Joe Tex | 3:13 | |
| 11. | Just the One (I've Been Looking For) | Cropper, Floyd, Isbell | 2:55 | |
| 12. | Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You | Jerry Akines, Johnnie Bellmon, Reginald Turner, Victor Drayton | 2:51 | |
| 13. | Never Like This Before | Hayes, Jones, David Porter | 2:57 | |
| 14th | Grab this thing | Cropper, Isbell | 3:14 | |
| Overall length: | 43:36 | |||
Web links
- Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla and Bill Gison report on the recordings (video, English)
- Respect Yourself video
- Soulsville video
Individual evidence
- ^ Evie Nagy: Huey Lewis Looks Toward Classic Soul on New Album. In: Billboard . October 16, 2010, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Joe Donatelli: An interview with Bill Gibson, drummer for Huey Lewis and The News. (No longer available online.) October 11, 2010, archived from the original on March 17, 2012 ; Retrieved January 30, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (unavailable)
- ^ Huey Lewis and the News: Soulsville > Review at Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ↑ Booklet of the album
- ↑ Charts US
- ↑ Huey Lewis and the News: Soulsville - Charts & Awards - Billboard Albums on Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ^ Rolling Stone, December 2010, p. 110.
- ↑ "As timeless as the Blues Brothers" - Review by Michael Edele on laut.de , accessed on May 11, 2016.
