Ace’s well established Songwriter Series doesn’t wander into the realms of soul as often as some might wish, but to remedy that they intend to in the future,so i,m told, with more salutes to great black American writers of the past 40 years, particularly those whose work excites collectors simply on the strength of their name under a title. This is an unquestionably strong collection of classics written or co-written by soul hero “Prince” Phillip Mitchell. Brilliant performer & Writer!...The songs here mostly chose themselves, through their popularity with record buyers or the acclaim afforded them by collectors and dancers on the Northern and Modern/Crossover scenes. ‘I Don’t Do This’, ‘Come Through Me’, Corey Blake, & the title track. As with other CDs in the series, one shouldn’t always expect the obvious version of any song. Instead of hearing Phillip himself sing ‘Free For All’, for example, you will hear Mel & Tim. And instead of hearing Mel & Tim sing ‘Starting All Over Again’, you will hear Johnnie Taylor. John Edwards’ sensational ‘Cold Hearted Woman’ is here so that we can hear Phillip singing ‘Little Things’. Katie Love’s original of ‘It Hurts So Good’ takes precedence over Millie Jackson’s version because, well, it’s the original. And we can then feature Millie’s underrated ‘Leftovers’. Nothing wrong with any of this, there are no losers in this game. I shouldn’t need explain any part of this CD. Check out that track listing, it speaks for itself. It’s very rare that you will hear so many great songs, one after another, sung by so many great voices. The only real problem you might have with this collection is deciding which track you like best. All Superb slabs of SOUL!
AMM
The Tasters!
Tracks Below (FLAC)
17 comments:
Thanks for this kent album AMM
Thanks AMM for this Ace Songwriter review. Hope they do cover more in the future.
Thanks AMM great review his writing ability is just as good as his singing did not know he wrote Here I Am for Candi Staton
Thanks a lot for reviewing this. I thought I'd already have most of the tracks on this compilation, but when I look at the track list I realize there are lots of songs I haven't heard.
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Looking forward to this, AMM. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this review
thanks for more Kent and this tribute to this great artists
Candi's "Here I Am" is my all time best as is Ollie's too
As always with Kent series quality guaranteed , thank you amm for the review!
Thank you AMM For this Album
Another great compilation and great Kent album! Thanks for review, P.
Thanks For The Review AMM, Much Appreciated!!
Thank you AMM for yet another great Kent Compilation
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Exccelent Choice AMM!!
Looks some interesting tracks on this.
Looks good, can't wait to check it out. Thanks AMM.
Crack'in album this one, he sure write a mean song but I must say I do prefer his version of Free for all but that not taking anything away from Mel & Tim who perform it admirable Thanks for the Review AMM
Cheers Pedro
Thanx for posting this. Hope yours is tagged better than what I have.
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