VA - Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul Vol 1 (2012)

Various Artists - Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul Vol. 1 (2012)
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It may open up with Aaron Neville's 1993 rendition of George Jones' classic "The Grand Tour," but Ace's 2012 compilation Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul focuses on the golden age of country soul – the late '60s and early '70s, the age when the borders between these two strands of southern American music became decidedly blurring. And many of the 23 cuts on Behind Closed Doors are firmly within the Southern soul tradition – slow, smoky, gritty, and soulful, anchored by languid stride piano and buttressed by muscular horns.

Most of the sides slide by at a slow tempo, rhythms that usually groove to a deep funk and occasionally are given a sweet, smooth soul veneer (the Limelites' "Before the Next Teardrop Falls") but often the proceedings are stately, the better to showcase the singer (Percy Sledge's "Take Time to Know Her," Tony Borders' "Gentle On My Mind," Solomon Burke's "He'll Have to Go," Brook Benton's "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye").

All this slowness means that the cuts that do pick up the tempo really stand out from the pack: Cookie Jackson's take on Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" blazes, and Moses & Joshua Dillard's ebullient rendition of Wynette & David Houston's "My Elusive Dreams" is positively addictive. But even if there's not a whole lot of variety here, there are plenty of good cuts that capture country-soul at its best.


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01 - Aaron Neville - The Grand Tour
02 - Solomon Burke - He'll Have To Go
03 - Percy Sledge - Take Time To Know Her
04 - Esther Phillips - I Saw Me
05 - Moses And Joshua Dillard - My Elusive Dreams
06 - Ann Peebles - Hangin' On
07 - Bobby Sheen - My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
08 - Tami Lynn - Wings Upon Your Horns
09 - The Limelites - Before The Next Teardrop Falls
10 - Al Green - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
11 - James Carr - Life Turned Her That Way
12 - Candi Staton - He Called Me Baby
13 - Z.Z Hill - The Chokin' Kind
14 - Joe Simon - Yours, Love
15 - Cookie Jackson - Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
16 - Arthur Alexander - Detroit City
17 - Tony Borders - Gentle On My Mind
18 - Bettye Swann - Don't Touch Me
19 - Clarence Carter - Set Me Free
20 - Little Milton - Behind Closed Doors
21 - Millie Jackson - If You're Not Back In Love By Monday
22 - Joe Tex - Skip A Rope
23 - Brook Benton - She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

*2012 Ace Records / Kent Records | CDKEND 375




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