Track Listing
1. Step by Step
2. I Stayed Away Too Long
3. Tell Daddy
4. Looking For a Fox
5. I Can't See Myself
6. Road of Love, The
7. Slip Away
8. Back Door Santa
9. That Old Time Feeling
10. Too Weak to Fight
11. I'd Rather Go Blind
12. Making Love (At the Dark End of the Street)
13. Snatching It Back
14. Soul Deep
15. I Smell a Rat
16. Doin' Our Thing
17. Feeling Is Right, The
18. I Can't Leave Your Love Alone
19. Slipped, Tripped and Fell in Love
20. It's All in Your Mind
21. Patches
| Details | | Playing Time: | 58 min. | | Producer: | Rick Hall | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Clarence Carter (vocals, guitar); James Johnson, Albert Lowe, Duane Allman, Travis Wammack (guitar); Gene Miller, Wayne Jackson, Harrison Calloway Jr., Jack Peck (trumpet); Aaron Varnell (tenor & baritone saxophone); Charles Chalmers, Andrew Love, Joe Arnold, Harvey Thompson (tenor saxophone); Floyd Newman, James Mitchell, Ronnie Eades (baritone saxophone); Clayton Ivey (piano, organ, keyboards); Barry Beckett (piano, organ); Linden Oldham (piano); Marvell Thomas (organ); David Hood, Jesse Boyce, Bob Wray, Jerry Masters (bass); Roger Hawkins, Freeman Brown, Fred Pouty, Cornell McFadden (drums); Donna Rhodes, Charles Chalmers, Sandy Rhodes (background vocals).
Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh.
In his perceptive liner notes to this excellent greatest-hits album, Dave Marsh makes the point that Clarence Carter, alone amongst the great Southern soul singers of the '60s, was the final link in a long chain of blind blues singer-guitarists stretching back to Blind Willie McTell. You can hear the justification for Marsh's observation several times here, particularly on a straight blues like "The Road of Love" (yes, that's Duane Allman's distinctive slide guitar ping-ponging from speaker to speaker) or the overtly jokey "Back Door Santa."
Carter is just as persuasive in the Memphis soul style, as exemplified by his glorious cheating anthem "Slip Away" and a cover of the Box Tops "Soul Deep." The album's most astonishing moment, however, is the four-minute rap about human sexuality that prefaces Carter's version of James Carr's "(Making Love) on the Dark End of the Street." The mixture of salacious absurdity and unbridled fervor results in performance art of the highest caliber.
Editorial Reviews
..a monumental document of how powerfully sinful music could grow from righteous gospel roots.. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (06/19/1992)
..a monumental document of how powerfully sinful music could grow from righteous gospel roots.. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (06/19/1992)
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