Skinny Legs & All [Import]

Joe Tex | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Kent Records UK
• ASIN: B0000013BE
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #482,996 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)

2. The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)

3. Show Me

4. Hold What You've Got

5. Heep See Few Know

6. Someone To Take Your Place

7. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

8. If Sugar Was As Sweet As You

9. Meet Me In The Church

10. You Got What It Takes

11. I Had A Good Home But I Left (Part 1)

12. Don't Let Your Left Hand Know

13. A Woman Can Change A Man

14. Skinny Legs And All

15. I Want To (Do Everything For You)

16. A Sweet Woman Like You

17. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It

18. Men Are Gettin' Scarce

19. I'm A Man

20. I've Got To Do A Little Bit Better

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars possibly the greatest, certainly the most underrated soulman of them all - and the sound is fine by me, July 8, 2007

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Jm Leven (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Skinny Legs & All (Audio CD)

Another reviewer has complained about the sound on this, but it sounds as good as any of his other cds to me. There are dozens of Joe Tex best-ofs but I think this is the most comprehensive, unless you have to have 'Ain't gonna bop no more with no big fat woman'( which might have been his biggest UK hit but I am not personally fond of), in which case go for '25 greatest hits' - it's also got his later hits 'gotcha' and 'you said a bad word' which aren't here. I got a Joe Tex greatest hits in 1966 and loved it and continually played it till the cd age. This cd has all the tracks from my vinyl album bar one - 'you had better get it'. They're all on '25 greatest hits' but I choose this as the one best selection because of the inclusion of a few other gems I was previously unaware of and that are not available elsewhere as far as I know - especially ' Meet me in church' and 'the sweetest woman in the world'.
There are excellent sleeve notes. Apparently Joe had 33 hits - I guess that must be mostly from the R'n'B charts but he had some US top ten hits.
I remember him getting some airplay for 'Show me' and 'sweet woman like you' but don't recall him troubling the UK charts until the 70s with maybe his worst song - the aforementioned 'ain't gonna bop no more...'
Whatever, he doesn't have any huge hits that everyone knows and loves like Percy Sledge or Otis Redding, but he has tracks of that calibre - 'the Love you save' is easily as good as ' Try a little tenderness','I've been loving you too long' or 'When a man loves a woman'.
And he has more good ones. I find that I never listen to more than 6 tracks each from Otis or Percy Sledge, but I can listen to nearly all of this over and over, and then there's 'Live and lively' another live album which has more essential stuff not featured here.
Joe's voice doesn't seem to have the higher register that we've come to expect soul stars to show their chops by soaring into now and again. Instead he has an astonishing bass register that he soars down into to show off sometimes. Indeed, many of his self-penned songs seem designed to show off his bass register, most notably the gorgeous ' the Love You Save '. There's also an oft-noted country influence in his songwriting; in fact he recorded an album of country covers 'Soul Country'.
His band are wonderful throughout - that Stax/Atlantic sound that no-one seems to be able to get these days; Joss Stone seems to be trying for it sometimes, and she does get a pretty decent approximation to 70s era Gladys Knight, but she never quite gets this. Special mentions are due to the piano player Bobby Woods (session man- the only one credited) and especially to guitar player Lee Royal Hadley, very much in the Steve Cropper mould, the type of guitar playing Jimi Hendrix cut his teeth on.
Curiously, one of the tracks I didn't know previously,'watch the one that brings the bad news' (and I don't know where or when it comes from), sounds too much like early Taj Mahal (especially on 'Giant Step') to be a coincidence, but I couldn't guess who influenced who - a bit both ways, I suspect. Joe's bluesiest number.
Wonderful! Then, once you've bought this and 'Live and lively', you'll just have to buy '25 Greatest hits' just for that one track 'You had better get it'. You had better get it!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Sound, January 11, 2007

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Sally E. (Scottsdale Az) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Skinny Legs & All (Audio CD)

I would not recommend this CD because the music sounds awful!!! Every song reverbs and is unclear! Maybe its because they were recorded so long ago..I don't know. All I know is that I had heard some of the songs recently played on Satellite Radio and they sounded fabulous! Not so with this CD!