Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
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Artist: Dusty SpringfieldBrand: Springfield
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Just a Little Lovin'
- So Much Love
- Son of a Preacher Man
- I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore
- Don't Forget About Me
- Breakfast in Bed
- Just One Smile
- Windmills of Your Mind
- In the Land of Make Believe
- No Easy Way Down
- I Can't Make It Alone
- What Do You Do When Love Dies (bonus track)
- Willie & Laura Mae Jones (bonus track)
- That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) (bonus track)
- Cherished [*]
- Goodbye [*]
- Make It with You [*]
- Love Shine Down [*]
- Live Here with You [*]
- Natchez Trace [*]
- All the King's Horses [*]
- I'll Be Faithful [*]
- Have a Good Life Baby [*]
- You've Got a Friend [*]
- I Found My Way [*]
Music reviews of Dusty in Memphis
Music Review: Dusty's Greatest
Rating: 5 Stars
In terms of how respected she was by so many female singers of her day and beyond, the late Dusty Springfield has probably had a greater impact on America than any other British singer of the entire rock era. From the very moment she came to this country via the Beatles-led British Invasion in 1964 with "I Only Want To Be With You", she showed a great deal of diversity in the material she recorded, including the Bacharach/David classics "Wishin' And Hopin'" and "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", and the Phil Spector-influenced "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me." But maybe her biggest artistic impact was when she took a chance and made an album in the heart of the Southern R&B scene in 1968. That album was DUSTY IN MEMPHIS.
Even though Dusty's final vocals were actually recorded in New York, the basic tracks on this album were recorded with the same group of musicians (including guitarist Reggie Young) who had been featured on hits by the Box Tops and Wilson Pickett, and who would also aid and abet local boy Elvis Presley's 1969 comeback sessions. The relaxed vocal style that Dusty had bought to her previous recordings, minus the vocal showboating of so many divas past and present, aided her so extraordinarily well on this album, most notably on the epochal "Son Of A Preacher Man", which was a large hit for her, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969, and on her version of the 1968 Oscar-winning song "The Windmills Of Your Mind" (from the film THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR). Incredibly, however, given its stature as one of the pre-eminent "blue-eyed soul" albums of its time, not to mention it being arguably Dusty's best album, DUSTY IN MEMPHIS barely even broke into the upper half of the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, peaking at a shockingly low #99. Time has clearly been the equalizer for this album in our time.
The Deluxe Edition of DUSTY IN MEMPHIS includes other tracks that she recorded between 1969 and 1971 that more or less fit in with the R&B groove of the original, although, with the exception of "What Do You Do When Love Dies?" (an outtake from the Memphis sessions), those were recorded in New York and Philadelphia. Again, however, Dusty's vocal acumen shines, notably on the swampy R&B excursions "Natchez Trace" and "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" (the latter written by Tony Joe White, of "Polk Salad Annie" and "Rainy Night In Georgia" fame), and "Hi-De-Ho" (the Carole King/Gerry Goffin composition that would be a Top 15 hit for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late summer of 1970).
Dusty, sadly, passed away in March 1999, just six weeks before her 60th birthday, and not long before she was justifiably enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But her legacy as the pre-eminent British female singer is undeniable, and the best proof of that is right here, in this essential 1969 album, one of the single greatest albums by any female singer of the rock era, period.
Description of Dusty in Memphis
Dusty Springfield never claimed to be a soul singer, but Dusty in Memphis effects a unique and deeply moving synthesis of her brand of stylish pop and the Southern R&B of the late '60s. Her soft tones and hushed, confessional readings make for definitive versions of everything from "Son of a Preacher Man" (a later version by Aretha Franklin is good but less thrillingly sensual than this one) to Randy Newman's ballads "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore" and "Just One Smile" to a swirling take on "The Windmills of Your Mind." The soul obscurity "Breakfast in Bed" even gives a knowing spin to a line from an earlier Springfield classic: "You don't have to say you love me." This expanded edition features vastly improved sound and a number of bonus tracks not on the earlier CD. --Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
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