Irma Thomas - Time is on My Side
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Artist: Irma ThomasEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-12-27
Music Label: Kent Records UK
Soundtracks:
- Take A Look
- Time Is On My Side
- Baby Don't Look Down
- Times Have Changed
- I Done Got Over It
- It's Raining
- Somebody Told You
- Wait, Wait, Wait
- Break-A-Way
- I Haven't Got Time To Cry
- Some Things You Never Get Used To
- Look Up (When Ever)
- Ruler Of My Heart
- I Need Your Love So Bad
- Wish Someone Would Care
- (I Want A) True, True Love
- I Did My Part
- You Don't Miss A Good Thing (Until It's Gone)
- Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
- Straight From The Heart
- Gone
- Two Winters Long
- Without Love (There Is Nothing)
- It's A Man's-Woman's World Parts 1 & 2
Music reviews of Time is on My Side
Music Review: The Best of the Soul Queen of New Orleans
Rating: 5 Stars
Irma Thomas, known in Louisiana as "the Soul Queen of New Orleans", has been one of my favorite singers for years. I have never introduced her music to anyone who didn't pronounce her a genius on the spot. Her voice is powerful and expressive, even more so in her later years. Yes, Irma's still around, thank you, and she continues to record prolifically, even though her career started over 45 years ago. Over the years, I have introduced her records to several R & B aficionados who never heard of her, and they are almost always amazed at how good she is and puzzled at how she's managed to escape their attention.
Her early Minit records have never been put into a "definitive" collection; as a result, there are many anthologies available on many different labels. I have at least three, and bought them all for the one or two tracks on each that the others failed to include. But this particular album is my favorite of her CD anthologies, since it contains the highest concentration of her very best songs. There are 22 tracks on this CD and not a clunker in the bunch.
It's difficult to fathom why she is not a household name (like my other favorite singer, Tracy Nelson - Tracy so loves Irma's early records that her own releases, 22 albums strong, have contained numerous covers of Irma's early material). Then again, I am long of the opinion that a lack of national popularity in a musical artist is frequently a sign of true genius, superior artistic integrity, or both. Considering some of the mediocre non-talents that have made it to superstardom, while others with real voices languish in obscurity - well, you know what I mean.
This particular collection includes many of Irma's early hits. She had over a dozen "top thirty" hits on the R & B charts between 1959-69, but sadly has been practically forgotten by most R & B fans, except in New Orleans, where she is a major local celebrity and a household name. I have never been introduced to anyone from the state of Louisiana without asking them, "Louisiana? Do you know Irma Thomas?" and the reply is always, "Irma? Everybody loves Irma!"
She is most remembered for introducing Time Is On My Side before the Rolling Stones did it. Her soulful version will make you forget theirs, maybe even if you're a die hard rock and roll lover. Her biggest hit was probably her self-penned autobiographical number I Wish Someone Would Care (which is NOT a love ballad - it's about her career) which I still hear on oldies stations from time to time. And then there was her first hit from 1959 (unfortunately not included here), You Can Have My Husband, But Please Don't Mess With My Man, which has my vote as the greatest song title ever devised.
Of her later stuff, I am particularly fond of her two first Rounder albums, The New Rules and The Way I Feel, but the woman never recorded a bad song in her life. You simply cannot go wrong with Irma.
This album contains many of the best of her classic hits. From her wonderful up-tempo material to her numerous heartbreaking ballads, you will have trouble deciding what she's better at - the slow stuff or the fast stuff. And that's mighty rare in any genre. I Done Got Over It, I Did My part, Somebody Told You, and Break-A-Way (a guaranteed finger-snapper) are some bouncy standout examples of her up-tempo material. All are included here, but my favorite may be Two Winters Long, with her wistful, delicate phrasing. As for her ballads, if Times Have Changed, Some Things You never Get Used To or I'm Gonna Cry Til My Tears Run Dry don't get to you, you have no soul. Or maybe you've just never been in love. Try Irma and you're guaranteed to fall in love (with her music).
Description of Time is on My Side
Twenty-three sides representing the cream of Irma Thomas's brilliant Minit/Liberty years (1961-1966), when her reputation as "The Soul Queen of New Orleans" was built. Virtually all her best-known tunes are here -- "Wish Someone Would Care," "Ruler of My Heart," "It's Raining," and "Time Is on My Side" (covered note-for-note by The Stones). Beautiful singing from one of the first ladies of soul music. Essential. ~ Christine Ohlman, All Music GuideBlues CDs
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