3 posts tagged “stax”
Here's Eddie Floyd, direct from Soulsville, USA, Memphis Tennessee. There's been a lotta Stax around here just recently. The album is Soul Street, from 1974, and it's worth a look.
I've been fiddling with a Steve-Cropperish descending-thirds thing and trying to remember what it reminded me of, other than Steve Cropper. I now know that it reminded me of this, is what it reminded me of. Dunno much about these guys. It's from 2001. The album's weak in spots, but I dig the big boomy hip-hoppy take on the old Stax thing.
Also funny, because I was telling somebody about spring reverb the other day, and that cheesy fake thunder sound is somebody kicking a (cheap, I suspect) guitar amp with a spring reverb unit. The only amps I have with spring reverb these days are a Fender and a Boogie, and their reverb tanks won't do that. Bummer! My piece of solid-state crap I had in high school would do it, though. Way cool.
Wow, I was just digging around some Stax samplers on emusic.com and look what I bumped inta! R. B. Hudmon? A new one on me (most things are, of course). Nifty track. Dunno anything about this guy except he released this on Stax no earlier than 1972 and no later than 1975. OK, nobody released anything on Stax after 1975 or so, right? Because it ceased to exist. So we've settled that, at least, provided I'm not full of shit.
(Did I forget to mention -- speaking of Stax -- forget to mention Big Star? Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks? Gotta remedy that.)
But... oh, right, soul! Cool song, fine singer, no unforced errors in the arrangement, deadly band. Must everything be radically original? Mmmm... nope! It's pretty good.
P.S. On that Stax compilation, check out "The Martian Hop" by the Newcomers. Now that one's not exactly original either, cough cough, but hey. Whaddya want?
