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The Complete Dial Recordings, Vol. 4: Happy Soul/Buying a Book by Joe Tex (CD, Jun-2002, RPM UK) 
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The Complete Dial Recordings, Vol. 4: Happy Soul/Buying a Book by Joe Tex (CD, Jun-2002, RPM UK)

Artist: Joe Tex
Release Date: Jun 2002
Format: CD
Record Label: RPM (UK)
Genre: R&B, Stax/Southern Soul
UPC: 5013929523821
Product ID: EPID3485470
Description: 2 LPs on 1 CD: HAPPY SOUL (1969)/BUYING A BOOK (1969). Liner Note Author: Clive Richardson. Recording information: American Sound Studios, Memphis, TN; Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, TN. Two Joe Tex albums from 1969 are combined ...
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Track Listing
1. Go Home and Do It
2. That's Your Baby
3. Baby Be Good
4. You Need Me Baby
5. Chicken Crazy
6. You've Come a Long Way
7. Sweet Sweet Woman
8. You Can Tell
9. Take the Fifth Amendment
10. Keep the One You Got
11. We Can't Sit Down Now
12. Sure Is Good
13. That's the Way
14. Anything You Wanna Know
15. It Ain't Sanitary
16. Only Way, The
17. Grandma Mary
18. Get Your Lies Together
19. Same Things You Did to Get Me
20. Buying a Book
21. Betwixt and Between
22. Chocolate Cherry

Details
Producer:Buddy Killen, Mark Stratford
Distributor:Infinity Entertainment Gr
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD: HAPPY SOUL (1969)/BUYING A BOOK (1969).
Liner Note Author: Clive Richardson.
Recording information: American Sound Studios, Memphis, TN; Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, TN.
Two Joe Tex albums from 1969 are combined onto this single-disc reissue, with the addition of both sides of a 1968 single. Happy Soul, the earlier of the pair, is one of many extremely super-loose soul concept albums of the 1960s, the inference here being that this is upbeat, good-natured, humorous soul. Actually it doesn't sound much different from Tex's usual late-'60s output, but it is short on the churchy deep soul ballads that usually occupied a large part of his repertoire and heavy on the happy, sometimes almost slightly zany songs. It's good soul-funk-pop, naturally short on songs that are as good as the greatest hits, but with some real good 'uns, like the ebullient rap-dance tune "Chicken Crazy," "You Need Me Baby" (with Tex dissing a hometown boy-done-good as not good enough for the woman he wants), and the frenetic "Go Home and Do It." The ballads aren't entirely neglected, either, particularly on the slow and sweet "You Can Tell" and the inspirational "Keep the One You Got." Buying a Book isn't as upbeat, but maintains a similar level of respectable-to-high quality, and has a more balanced assortment of the gospel-influenced stompers ("We Can't Sit Down Now"), novelty humor ("It Ain't Sanitary"), slow organ-graced ballads with spoken monologues ("That's the Way," "Buying a Book"), and dance funk with hot guitar/brass/organ interplay ("Get Your Lies Together"). Tex, incidentally, wrote all of the songs on both albums, a somewhat unusual feat for soul stars of the time. The bonus tracks, both sides of the 1968 single "Betwixt and Between"/"Chocolate Cherry," are actually instrumentals by Tex's band, both of them moody funk-soul tunes with a cinematic sweep to the horns. ~ Richie Unterberger

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Tex in excelsis, justly acclaimed as a landmark of Southern Soul.
Uncut (10/01/2002)

...An overlooked talent worthy of reappraisal.
Mojo (10/01/2002)

3 stars out of 5 - ...A consistent double act...which mixes the downhome with the downright funky amid much inspired Tex silliness...
Q (10/01/2002)

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