The Muscle Shoals songwriter Dan Penn has been involved with some of the greatest moments in R&B, Country, and Pop: At The Dark End Of The Street, Cry Like A Baby, I'm Your Puppet, and Do Right Woman, Do Right Man are just a sampling of the incredible songs he has written. Normaly he worked with Spooner Oldham, but on You Left The Water Running, Fame Studio Owner Rick Hall and the mysterious Os...
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what's about to happen. With effect from tomorrow, when I uplift detailed instructions for a lengthy and complex public inquiry into the deaths of fourteen elderly people in a nursing home fire, I will require to devote virtually all of my spare time and energy to the case at least until May 2010, based on current estimates for the time it will take. My postings will be restricted to weekends a...
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I first heard this tune from the originator, the great Syl Johnson. But I was blown away by the Ken Boothe Reggae version. Both are outstanding.Key lyric:Dark brown shade of my skin, Only adds color to my tearsI first heard the Ken Boothe version on Blood and Fire's incredible collection of Reggae covers called,Darker than Blue:Soul From Jamdown. The track posted here, I believe, is the origina...
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One of the few real criticisms levelled at Otis Redding throughout his short but spectacular career was that his vocals, rough-hewn straight from small town Georgia as they were, sometime lacked a degree of sophistication. Well folks, as Al Jolson famously said in the first ever "talkie", "You ain't seen nothing yet", as here is Ken Boothe performing "Try a Little Tenderness" for Coxsone Dodd's...
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While I still think that Pat Kelly's cut for Bunny Lee, using Ken Parker's evergreen "How Long" rhythm, and famously versioned by Roland Alphonso as "Peyton Place", was the best Jamaican cut of this ageless Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham classic, Ken Boothe was always a reliable performer when it came to covering soul tunes, and this is one of the best, so here it is for you the music lover
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here covering another Motown classic - this is the triple length 12" extended mix, not the original cut from "Mr Rock Steady"
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Now here is Ken Boothe (with the Wailers on backing vocals) with the first cut of yet another Coxsone rocksteady scorcher, from round about 1966-67, with the Soul Vendors handling riddim duties, and Roland Alphonso playing the sax solo
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ken boothe - you left the water running seriously ..... biggg tune
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