South Side Of Soul Street: The SSS Sessions (Remastered 2022) Johnny Adams

• 1 South Side Of Soul Street (Remastered 2022) 02:58
• 2 Give Me A Chance (Alternate / Remastered 2022) 03:02
• 3 Georgia Morning Dew (Remastered 2022) 03:17
• 4 Living On Your Love (Remastered 2022) 01:39
• 5 I've Got Too Much To Lose (Remastered 2022) 02:35
• 6 Too Much Pride (Alternate / Remastered 2022) 02:32
• 7 The Tender Side Of Me (Alternate / Remastered 2022) 03:14
• 8 Release Me (Remastered 2022) 02:50
• 9 Proud Woman (Remastered 2022) 02:38
• 10 You Made A New Man Out Of Me (Remastered 2022) 03:04
• 11 Reconsider Me (Remastered 2022) 03:55
• 12 In A Moment Of Weakness (Remastered 2022) 02:37
• 13 I Won't Cry (Alternate / Remastered 2022) 03:02
• 14 I Have No One (Remastered 2022) 03:09
• 15 If I Could See You One More Time (Remastered 2022) 03:33
• Total Runtime 44:05

Info for South Side Of Soul Street: The SSS Sessions (Remastered 2022)

Anlässlich des 70-jährigen Jubiläums von Sun Records wurden diese Johnny Adams-Tracks von den Original-Multitrack-Bändern neu abgemischt, um eine optimale Klangqualität zu erzielen. Die Tracklist des neuen Albums wurde noch nie auf Vinyl gedruckt und ist inspiriert von seiner South Side of Soul Street von 1986. Das Angebot umfasst seine Hits "Release Me" und "Reconsider Me" sowie bisher unveröffentlichte oder digital nicht erhältliche Tracks: "Tender Side of Me - Alternate", "Too Much Pride - Alternate", und eine brandneue Version von "Give Me A Chance".

Johnny Adams

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Johnny Adams
Renowned around his Crescent City home base as "the Tan Canary" for his extraordinary set of soulfully soaring pipes, veteran R&B vocalist Johnny Adams tackled an exceptionally wide variety of material for Rounder in his later years; elegantly rendered tribute albums to legendary songwriters Doc Pomus and Percy Mayfield preceded forays into mellow, jazzier pastures. But then, Adams was never particularly into the parade-beat grooves that traditionally define the New Orleans R&B sound, preferring to deliver sophisticated soul ballads draped in strings.

Adams sang gospel professionally before crossing over to the secular world in 1959. Songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie -- the woman responsible for cleaning up the bawdy lyrics of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" enough for worldwide consumption -- convinced her neighbor, Adams, to sing her tasty ballad "I Won't Cry." The track, produced by a teenaged Mac Rebennack, was released on Joe Ruffino's Ric logo, and Adams was on his way. He waxed some outstanding follow-ups for Ric, notably "A Losing Battle" (the Rebennack-penned gem proved Adams' first national R&B hit in 1962) and "Life Is a Struggle."

After a prolonged dry spell, Adams resurfaced in 1968 with an impassioned R&B revival of Jimmy Heap's country standard "Release Me" for Shelby Singleton's SSS imprint that blossomed into a national hit. Even more arresting was Adams' magnificent 1969 country-soul classic "Reconsider Me," his lone leap into the R&B Top Ten; in it, he swoops effortlessly up to a death-defying falsetto range to drive his anguished message home with fervor.

Despite several worthy SSS follow-ups ("I Can't Be All Bad" was another sizable seller), Adams never traversed those lofty commercial heights again (particularly disappointing was a short stay at Atlantic). But he found a new extended recording life at Rounder; his 1984 set, From the Heart, proved to the world that this Tan Canary could still chirp like a champ. With producer Scott Billington, he recorded some nine albums for the label prior to his cancer-related death on September 14, 1998. (Bill Dahl, AMG)

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