Candi Staton - Candi Staton
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Artist: Candi StatonEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Music Label: Honest Jon's
Soundtracks:
- I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')
- Evidence
- I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)
- The Best Thing You Ever Had
- Someone You Use
- That's How Strong My Love Is
- Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man
- He Called Me Baby
- Sweet Feeling
- Do Your Duty
- Love Chain
- Stand By Your Man
- Heart On A String
- Too Hurt To Cry
- You Don't Love Me No More
- Mr. And Mrs. Untrue
- How Can I Put Out The Flame (When You Keep The Fire Burning)
- To Hear You Say You're Mine
- Sure As Sin
- What Would Become Of Me?
- In The Ghetto
- Get It When I Want It
- Freedom Is Beyond The Door
- I'll Drop everything And Come Running
- The Thanks I Get For Loving You
- I'm Gonna Hold On (To What I Got This Time)
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Music Review: The Sweetheart of Southern Soul Delivers With Conviction!
Rating: 5 Stars
Candi Staton may not have been as acclaimed as Aretha Franklin, but for a time, she was one of the best and most consistent singers of southern soul and rhythm and blues. Like other soul singers, Staton started out singing as a child in the church. From there, she sang gospel music with her family and friends and eventually cut a few sides with the Jewel Gospel Trio. She travelled the gospel music circuit where she learned to move audiences with her passionate and soulful vocals. She was a contemporary of other "gospel birds" including Aretha Franklin, Shirley Caesar, Lou Rawls (whom she was engaged to marry at one time) Mel Carter and the Staple Singers. But after gospel music stars Sam Cooke and Franklin crossed over to secular recordings and mainstream success, Staton, now a divorcee with children to support, decided to try her hand at interpreting secular material. By the late 1960s, Staton was living in Birmingham, Alabama and began singing secular material at a local nightclub there. The response to Staton was so positive, she became one of the club's regular performers. While there, she met blind singer Clarence Carter, who eventually introduced Staton to Rick Hall, owner of the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At Fame, Staton began working on secular material produced by Hall and backed by some of the same musicians (i.e. The Sweet Inspirations, drummer Roger Hawkins and keyboardist Spooner Oldham,), who had also worked with Aretha Franklin on her landmark recordings for Atlantic Records. With Hall producing and some of country and soul music's best songwriters supplying the material, Staton's first album "I'm Just A Prisoner" was released in 1970. One of the highlight's was Staton's first pop/soul single "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than Be A Young Man's Fool)," which had been issued the year before. That slice of sizzling, southern soul earned Staton her first gold record. After years of being out of print, or simply too hard to find: some of Staton's classics like "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart" and "I'm Just A Prisoner" have been gathered for this well anticipated disc that features the singer pouring out all of her heart and soul in 26 tracks. Staton is an expressive and soulful singer. On these 26 songs, Staton sings with so much conviction and passion. you get the feeling that she left a little bit of herself back there on the floor of Fame Studios. Her speciality was songs of love lost and loneliness, very dramatic tunes that told the truth about adult love and relationships. One of the set's strongest ballads is "Mr and Mrs. Untrue," in which Staton sings about an adulterous affair so sleazy and dirty, she makes you feel the pain, shame and frustration of one of these sad and sorry love affairs. She pours her heart out so convincingly that you'll probably think twice about ever becoming involved in an undercover affair. Staton also shows her skill at turning songs recorded by others into her own personal triumphs. She was one of the few R&B singers, who successfully covered country tunes, turning them into soulful masterpieces such as her versions of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and "In The Ghetto," a social commentary tune written by Mac Davis and made popular by Elvis Presley. So impressed was Presley after hearing Staton's cover of "Ghetto," he allegedly sent her a congratulatory note. If you're a fan of real, soulful singing, do yourself a favor and get a copy of this collection of songs by Candi Staton, one of the most underrated and best singers of southern soul.
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