by Bill Dahl
Leonard Chess dispatched Etta James to Muscle Shoals in 1967, and the move paid off with one of her best and most soul-searing Cadet albums. Produced by Rick Hall, the resultant album boasted a relentlessly driving title cut, the moving soul ballad &I'd Rather Go Blind,& and sizzling covers of Otis Redding's &Security& and Jimmy Hughes' &Don't Lose Your Good Thing,& and a pair of fine Don Covay copyrights. The skin-tight session aces at Fame Studios really did themselves proud behind Miss Peaches.