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艺人

Joe Tex

语种

英语

厂牌

Atlantic

发行时间

1972年02月14日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Richie Unterberger

The era this material represents wasn't an artistic or commercial high-water mark in Tex's career, although it's OK. Like his late-'60s sides, it bridges smooth soul with funk and anticipates rap, though it's a little lusher than his slightly earlier stuff. From From the Roots Came the Rapper itself, a highlight is the epic, eight-minute version of &Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby),& which naturally includes some extended spoken sections. That and the similarly constructed 11-minute cover of &I'll Never Fall in Love Again& make you wonder whether there was some influence traveling back and forth between Tex and Isaac Hayes. The rest of that LP had fair, and not great, good-natured yet earthy soul with a bit more of a slick Northern soul production influence than his '60s records. Tex himself, surprisingly, wrote just one of the tunes, though the other writers included stalwarts Jerry Williams Jr. (aka Swamp Dogg) (&The Baby Is Mine&) and Don Covay (&I Can Do It Better&).