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Be What You Are

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Staple Singers

Release Date November 30, 1998
The Staple Singers enjoyed a brief spell when their popularity reached beyond the Soul fraternity and into the Pop charts and thus they are well known for a few classic singles. One of those appears here, "If You're Ready(Come and Go with Me)" and it gives you an idea of the quality contained in this album.

With a resolutely Southern Soul feel, this represents the best album the Staples ever recorded. While it seemed the rest of the Stax roster were busy extending the boundaries of Black music, the Staples kept faith with the elements of the music which had elevated the label to pre-eminance in the 60's. So you won't find overblown orchestration, or proto-disco here. What you will find are magnificent lead vocals (Mavis Staples ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 52
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Taylored in Silk/Super Taylor

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Johnnie Taylor

Release Date December 04, 2000
I purchased this album for 25p at a record sale in the early 80's and loved it the first time I heard it.I now have it on cd 20 years later and it's still one of the most deepfelt soul classics of our time.Tracks like "starting all over again" and "I can read between the lines" have all the substance of a Soul Masterpiece. If you like the laid back soul balad of the late 70's, early 80's you'll love this cd.

CD-Charts Position 53
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Live Wire/Blues Power: Albert King Live at the Fillmore 1968/Remastered

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Albert King

Release Date July 02, 2001
These are my most-listened-to guitar solos. All his albums are good, and all have memorable moments but, like most blues guitarists, his guitar-playing is much better than his singing and his songs; here he does what he does best, and there are no better examples of it ( though most of his 3 tracks on the Montreux festival album, with Chico Hamilton and Little Milton, are on a par - note: that's a different album from Albert's own 'Blues at Sunrise:live at Montreux', which is also essential). This is a pleasure from start to finish; far from finding my mind wandering and wishing for a catchier tune, every note of this hypnotises me. This is a master-class in not only blues guitar, but in the essence of music; every phrase seems part of every ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 54
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Hard Goin' Up

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Little Sonny

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These are my most-listened-to guitar solos. All his albums are good, and all have memorable moments but, like most blues guitarists, his guitar-playing is much better than his singing and his songs; here he does what he does best, and there are no better examples of it ( though most of his 3 tracks on the Montreux festival album, with Chico Hamilton and Little Milton, are on a par - note: that's a different album from Albert's own 'Blues at Sunrise:live at Montreux', which is also essential). This is a pleasure from start to finish; far from finding my mind wandering and wishing for a catchier tune, every note of this hypnotises me. This is a master-class in not only blues guitar, but in the essence of music; every phrase seems part of every ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 55
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Mclemore Avenue

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Booker T & The MG's

Release Date July 27, 1992
A bizarre and rather wonderful tribute to a bizarre and rather wonderful album. It's hard to think of any other band that could have covered an entire Beatles' album without sounding like the soundtrack to the movie of 'Sergeant Pepper', but Booker T and The MG's do it with superb conviction, by the simple means of leaving out the vocals. (That's not all they leave out - to the great relief of all, they also don't bother to cover the original album's most embarrassing blemish, the awful 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'.) Booker T Jones plays the vocal melodies with great virtuosity on a variety of instruments, chiefly his ultra-cool Hammond organ with a Leslie speaker.

They also change the song order around, sequencing the tunes mostly as medleys ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 56
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Thursday Night in San Francisco: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium/Remastered

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Albert King

Release Date February 26, 2001
This Is A Good Album, If Your An Albert King Compleatist Like Myself, It's Worth Having For Those Tracks Not Contained On The Best Of Them All, Which Is ' Livewire/Bluespower. Livewire/Bluespower Seems To Carry More Of The Mood Of The Live Performance Than Wed & Thurs Night. After All He Was Support & Perhaps The Audience Just Didn't Appreciate This Genius On The Other Two Nights.

CD-Charts Position 57
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In Session

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Albert King

Release Date April 14, 2003
To begin with this CD is an excellent quality recording of master and apprentice playing some stunning songs. It really gives insight into how SRV took and developed Albert's sound, the King even goes as far to say "That sounds familier", as SRV plays a King inspired lick. The dialogue inbetween tracks is also extremely interesting and it comes across as a handing over ceremony from one blues generation to the next with Albert instructing Stevie to work hard and take the sound somewhere else. A riveting CD, buy now!

CD-Charts Position 58
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The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.2 1968-1971

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 01, 1993
This is the second instalment of the Stax story, although it is true to say that it represents the beginning of the story of Stax as an independant distributor of it's music.

To explain, pre'68, the labels output was licensed by Atlantic and when that deal ended, it was discovered that it gave Atlantic the rights to the Stax back catalogue - yes, all those classic tracks by the Soul greats, all unavailable to Stax. So, the label embarked on a new strategy with a new logo. Gone was the pale blue label, with the black discs at the top and in came that vibrant yellow with the famous "finger-clicking" logo.

Also gone was Otis, tragically lost with most of the Barkays in a plane crash in December 1967. That left Stax with no major artist on which ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 59
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Wattstax

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 30, 1992
This is the second instalment of the Stax story, although it is true to say that it represents the beginning of the story of Stax as an independant distributor of it's music.

To explain, pre'68, the labels output was licensed by Atlantic and when that deal ended, it was discovered that it gave Atlantic the rights to the Stax back catalogue - yes, all those classic tracks by the Soul greats, all unavailable to Stax. So, the label embarked on a new strategy with a new logo. Gone was the pale blue label, with the black discs at the top and in came that vibrant yellow with the famous "finger-clicking" logo.

Also gone was Otis, tragically lost with most of the Barkays in a plane crash in December 1967. That left Stax with no major artist on which ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 60
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With a Little Help from My Friends

CD-Charts > Music > Stax
by: Steve Cropper

Release Date September 01, 1992
This is the second instalment of the Stax story, although it is true to say that it represents the beginning of the story of Stax as an independant distributor of it's music.

To explain, pre'68, the labels output was licensed by Atlantic and when that deal ended, it was discovered that it gave Atlantic the rights to the Stax back catalogue - yes, all those classic tracks by the Soul greats, all unavailable to Stax. So, the label embarked on a new strategy with a new logo. Gone was the pale blue label, with the black discs at the top and in came that vibrant yellow with the famous "finger-clicking" logo.

Also gone was Otis, tragically lost with most of the Barkays in a plane crash in December 1967. That left Stax with no major artist on which ... Read More: