Johnny Adams

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风格: #灵魂布鲁斯　#灵魂乐　#新奥尔良R&B
地区: 欧美

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by Bill DahlRenowned around his Crescent City home base as the Tan Canary for his extraordinary set of soulfully soaring pipes, veteran R&B vocalist Johnny Adams tackled an exceptionally wide variety of material for Rounder in his later years; elegantly rendered tribute albums to legendary songwriters Doc Pomus and Percy Mayfield preceded forays into mellow, jazzier pastures. But then, Adams was never particularly into the parade-beat grooves that traditionally define the New Orleans R&B sound, preferring to deliver sophisticated soul ballads draped in strings. Adams sang gospel professionally before crossing over to the secular world in 1959. Songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie — the woman responsible for cleaning up the bawdy lyrics of Little Richards Tutti Frutti enough for worldwide consumption — convinced her neighbor, Adams, to sing her tasty ballad I Wont Cry. The track, produced by a teenaged Mac Rebennack, was released on Joe Ruffinos Ric logo, and Adams was on his way. He waxed some outstanding follow-ups for Ric, notably A Losing Battle (the Rebennack-penned gem proved Adams first national R&B hit in 1962) and Life Is a Struggle. After a prolonged dry spell, Adams resurfaced in 1968 with an impassioned R&B revival of Jimmy Heaps country standard Release Me for Shelby Singletons SSS imprint that blossomed into a national hit. Even more arresting was Adams magnificent 1969 country-soul classic Reconsider Me, his lone leap into the R&B Top Ten; in it, he swoops effortlessly up to a death-defying falsetto range to drive his anguished message home with fervor. Despite several worthy SSS follow-ups (I Cant Be All Bad was another sizable seller), Adams never traversed those lofty commercial heights again (particularly disappointing was a short stay at Atlantic). But he found a new extended recording life at Rounder; his 1984 set, From the Heart, proved to the world that this Tan Canary could still chirp like a champ. With producer Scott Billington, he recorded some nine albums for the label prior to his cancer-related death on September 14, 1998.

Johnny Adams

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