Down & Out: The Sad Soul of the Black South [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Trikont
• ASIN: B000024ASX
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,626 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Crying in the Streets

2. Down on Bending Knees

3. Dead

4. Lonely for You Baby

5. Forgotten Lover

6. Everybody Knows (The River Song)

7. I Cried

8. Heart Breaker (Child Maker)

9. More Time (To Explain)

10. Love Don't Love Nobody

11. He Kept on Talking

12. Rainbow Road

13. Shell of a Woman

14. Why Does It Hurt So Bad?

15. Road of Brokenhearted Men

16. In the Same Motel

17. Sit Down and Cry

18. That Did It

19. Let Me Down Easy

20. He's My Son (Just the Same)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

While mainstream Soul in the U.S. is into 'parties, champagne and silk sheets', an anchronism has survived down South. Small independent record labels keep producing their 'cheating' dramas for a regional market. Here the Blues-drenched stories of Bobby Blue Band or Dicky Williams still have the potential to become hits. Southern Soul reaches down into the depths of human existence. A ritual that demands religious dedication from ist protagonists: gospel-like dramas excessively enact the pain, while proverbs such as "Love Don't love Nobody" touch on the unspeakable. Sobbing backround vocals, dragging horns and morbid church organs accompany the bands descending flight. The guitar may be out of tune, the drums out of time, the arrangement lacking. The message is never lost. Triknot. 2005.