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The Best Of The Vee Jay Years (CD)

By: The Staple Singers (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Best Of The Vee Jay Years (CD) Album By The Staple Singers (Artist)
1   Uncloudy Day
2   I Know I Got Religion
3   Swing Down Chariot (Aka Let Me Ride)
4   I'm Coming Home (Parts 1 & 2)
5   Help Me Jesus
6   Low Is The Way
7   So Soon
8   Will The Circle Be Unbroken
9   Pray On
10   Too Close
11   Let's Go Home
12   I've Been Scorned
13   Swing Low
14   Sit Down Servant
15   Stand By Me
16   Day Is Passed And Gone, The
17   This May Be The Last Time
 

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Dirty Linen (p.79) - "The group's successful formula, essentially an a capella trio backed by Pops Staple's heavily reverbed electric guitar, was well established by then, as was the repertoire of gospel material."
Living Blues (p.63) - "At Vee-Jay, the group was captured in all its purity....The Staples' plaintive family harmonies were capture for the first time on wax with just Pop's guitar and an occasional drummer for accompaniment."

Title Note

If all you know of the Staple Singers is their "Respect Yourself"-era funky material from the early '70s, BEST OF THE VEE-JAY YEARS will be something of a revelation. Long before they were making groove-heavy records for Stax, they perfected a hypnotic, strikingly original amalgam of gospel, blues, and folk on their early Vee-Jay recordings. Their 1956 single "Uncloudy Day," a huge hit that would become one of their signature tunes, set the template. Pops Staples and his offspring, Mavis, Pervis, Yvonne, and Cleotha, deliver soulful, gospel-influenced harmonies, usually backed only by Pops's unique guitar sound, drenched in tremolo for a haunting, otherworldly effect. The Staple Singers' '50s/early-'60s recordings had one of the most distinctive sounds in R&B, and the musical history they made is handily compiled here.

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