The Percy Sledge Way

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艺人: Percy Sledge
语种: 英语
厂牌: Atlantic
发行时间: 1967年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Mark Deming

While Percy Sledge didn't have an especially large number of hits, he possessed one of the most identifiable styles of any singer from the Golden Era of Soul, sounding a pure note of deep Southern heartbreak every time he opened his mouth. On the 1967 album The Percy Sledge Way, he performed eleven songs made famous by other R&B stars, and while he doesn't steal any of them away from the singers who first made them hits, there's no arguing that he puts a unique stamp on every one of them. While &You Send Me& and &Tell It Like It Is& may have sounded respectively romantic and coolly defiant in the hands of Sam Cooke and Aaron Neville, here Sledge transforms them into the plaintive cries of a man who knows he's about to lose his lover, and the gloomy undertow of numbers like &Drown In My Own Tears&, &Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)& and &The Dark End Of The Street& becomes palpable when Sledge covers them. And while Sledge can't out-sing the likes of Otis Redding, Solomon Burke or James Carr, part of the magic of this album is he doesn't really try -- he simply turns each number into a Percy Sledge song, finding a rich vein of hurt and longing in every lyric as producers Quin Ivy and Marlin Greene and the session band (anchored by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section) give him the simple but dramatically resonant accompaniment he needs. Hardly a typical album of covers, The Percy Sledge Way features a great singer gently reshaping a handful of classic songs, and the results are perfect for a late night, either alone or with someone you hope will stick around.