Booker T. Jones: The Road From Memphis
The Road From Memphis
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Anti, 2011
- Bestellnummer: 4939358
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.5.2011
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Product Information:
The Road from Memphis starts with a young Booker T. Jones hauling his stack of newspapers to Phineas Newborn s front yard where, while folding them for his after-school delivery route, he could listen to the jazz great practice piano. It ends with Booker and The Roots roaring through a set of both timeless and contemporary originals (and propulsive covers of Gnarls Barkley s "Crazy" and Lauren Hill s "Everything Is Everything"). Along for the ride are vocalists Matt Berninger of the National, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Sharon Jones, Lou Reed, and Booker himself, telling the story of how the funk / soul sound that Booker helped invent spiraled out from Memphis, touching The Root s hometown of Philadelphia, New York (where engineer Gabe Roth has been recreating classic soul sonics for everyone from Sharon Jones to Amy Winehouse), and Detroit. Detroit as in Dennis Coffey, legendary Motown session guitarist who introduced driving rock funk rhythm to hits like "Cloud Nine" and "Ball of Confusion" by the Temptations, and brings his Detroit grit to these tracks. The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of "Green Onions", but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive. (bookert. com)
Rezensionen
,,Get the Vibes going!" (stereoplay, 06 / 2011)
,,Seine einmal mehr ausgeklügelte Melange aus vibrierendem 70er-Funk, schlaksigem Soul und Pop-Harmonien legte den Grundstein für modernen Soul - für diese Verdienste führte man den heute 66-Jährigen 1992 in die Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame ein. Zu Recht, wie dieses zeitlose Album zeigt." (audio, 06 / 2011)
,,Die Orgel-lkone des Sixties-Soul versucht sich mit schillernden Gästen und unter der Ägide von Roots-Drummer ?uestlove am Spagat zwischen Tradition und Moderne." (musikexpress, 06 / 2011)
,,Booker T. zelebriert den Memphis-Vibe, klingt aber nie altbacken." (Rolling Stone Juni 2011)
,,Verstärkten auf dem Grammy-dekorierten Potato Hole (2009) noch die Drive-By Truckers und Neil Young den Rock-Faktor, liefert auf The Road From Memphis das Produzententeam Questlove / Rob Scharpf mit exzellenter Bass & Drums-Unterstützung von The Roots fett groovenden Soul, zusammengehalten von Booker T. Jones Hammond B3." (Good Times, August / September 2011)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Walking Papers
- 2 Crazy
- 3 Progress
- 4 The Hive
- 5 Down In Memphis
- 6 Everything Is Everything
- 7 Rent Party
- 8 Representing Memphis
- 9 The Vamp
- 10 Harlem House
- 11 The Bronx
