Irma Thomas - Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: Collection
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Artist: Irma ThomasEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-02-20
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Cry On
- I Done Got Over It
- It's Raining
- Hittin' On Nothing
- Ruler Of My Heart
- Wish Someone Would Care
- Break-A-Way
- I Need Your Love So Bad
- While The City Sleeps
- Time Is On My Side
- Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
- Moments To Remember
- Straight From The Heart
- Take A Look
- It's A Man's Woman's World (Pt. 1)
- Long After The Night Is All Over
- Times Have Changed
- He's My Guy
- What Are You Trying To Do
- Nobody Wants To Hear Nobody's Troubles
- The Hurt's All Gone
- I'm Gonna Cry 'Til My Tears Run Dry
- It's Starting To Get To Me Now
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Music Review: The Voice
Rating: 4 Stars
For my money, the two most soulful female voices of the sixties belonged to Irma Thomas and Aretha Franklin, and Thomas (whose voice is so naturally powerful that anyone foolish enough to compare with her would probably go back to whatever it is failed soul singers do) had recorded all her classics before Franklin had hit her stride. Consequently, anyone interested in sixties Soul (as well as New Orleans music), needs to own an Irma Thomas collection. Unfortunately, there is no definitive collection available on Thomas. Her first song, "(You Can Have My Husband But) Don't Mess with My Man," available on a Ron Records various artists CD, is a spunky little masterpiece essential to her story that is routinely left off of her hits packages. Her early sixties songs, produced by Allen Toussaint in New Orleans for Minit Records, are perfect capsules of the sound Toussaint was employing to great effect at the time. In addition to producing, Toussaint wrote many of the songs Thomas recorded during those early years, and the enduring brilliance of these recordings exemplifies what happens when two great talents who are sensitive to each others' gifts get together. (The Minit recordings are documented more extensively on "Ruler of Hearts," an out of print collection on the Charly label). This collection only includes five of those songs, instead focusing more on Thomas' work for Imperial Records in Los Angeles, all of which is equally as strong as her earlier recordings, if a little more streamlined and pop-oriented. No one, though, can argue with "Break-a-way," her original version of "Time Is On My Side," "The Hurt's All Gone," "Take a Look," or "While the City Sleeps". Even without the slightly later hits, this CD is worth owning for those five songs from the Minit sessions and what is arguably her best song, "Wish Somone Would Care," written by Thomas herself and recorded at one of her first sessions in L.A. Great lyrics with genuine emotional resonance and Thomas' knowing, world-weary delivery (while only in her early twenties at the time, she had already accumulated plenty of adversity) put it in the rare company of Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come." Truly remarkable.
Those interested would do well to begin with this CD or EMI's "Time Is On My Side" (which duplicates a lot of what's here) and then make the effort to find the rest of Thomas' early sixties recordings. They'll very likely be on hard to find LPs, but the search is worthwhile.
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