LEE DORSEY: Ride Your Pony (w/3 Bonus tracks)
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No one snake-hipped his way up the pop charts with more panache than New Orleans R&B legend Lee Dorsey on 'Ride Your Pony' and 'Get Out Of My Life, Woman.' Produced at the famed Cosimo Recording Studio by storied Crescent City knobsmen Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn. Dorsey's first Amy album is sweetened here by the addition of my 3 bonus tracks. This is an album that I have added 3 more of my favorite Lee Dorsey songs to. This takes me back to high school/college days and I can listen to them today as easy as then. Please enjoy!!!
Aside from the title track and the oft-covered, ultrafunky "Get Out of My Life, Woman," none of the 12 songs on this early 1966 album are familiar to most listeners. As it turns out, it's a quality full-length bridging early-'60s New Orleans R&B with soul, even if the songs tend to be on the light partying side. That's part of the main draw of much New Orleans music, of course, and few were better at projecting a relaxed sense of fun than Lee Dorsey. It helped that all but two of the songs were written by co-producer Allen Toussaint; the Crescent City giant doesn't get nearly as much attention as Smokey Robinson, but as with Smokey, one wonders if Toussaint ever slept in the 1960s, so prolific and generally fine was his output. The Sundazed CD reissue is recommended even if you have the (by now hard to find) original LP.
Get Out of My Life, Woman is one of the best songs to ever come out of New Orleans. This of course is just my opinion. Albert King did a very fine version of the same and it can be found on this site.
Tracks :
1. Ride Your Pony
2. Kitty Cat Song
3. Shortnin' Bread
4. So Long
5. People, I Wish You Could See
6. Work, Work, Work
7. Get Out of My Life, Woman
8. Here Comes the Hurt Again
9. Hello Mama
10. Can You Hear Me
11. Greatest Love
12. Feelin'
13. Ya-Ya
14. Working In the Coal Mine
15. Holy Cow
Details
.. Year: 1966/2000
.. Label: Amy/Sundaze(ReIssue)
.. Country: USA
.. Bitrate: 192 kbps
.. Home-Page: www.tsimon.com/dorsey.htm
.. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/leedorsey
.. Last.fm: www.last.fm/music/Lee Dorsey
.. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Dorsey
.. BUY ME 1: N/A
.. BUY ME 2: "
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