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The Soul Of O. V. Wright (CD)

By: O.V. Wright (Artist)

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O.V. Wright Artist Snapshot:

One of deep soul's most impressive stylists, O.V. Wright started out as a youngster singing with several different gospel groups, such as the Highway Q.C.'s and the Sunset Travelers. Moving into R&B as both singer and songwriter, Wright made a series of genre-defining records in the '60s. In the '70s, along with Al Green, he helped create the classic soul sound of Hi Records, recording a string of Hi hits with genius Memphis producer Willie Mitchell. Wright continued working through the late '70s, but the southern soul giant died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 41.

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DISC 1 for The Soul Of O. V. Wright (CD) Album By O.V. Wright (Artist)
1   You're Gonna Make Me Cry
2   I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy
3   When You Took Your Love From Me
4   Gonna Forget About You
5   Everybody Knows (The River Song)
6   Don't Let My Baby Ride
7   I Don't Want To Sit Down
8   Born All Over
9   Ace Of Spades
10   Eight Men, Four Women
11   Nickel And A Nail, A
12   Heartaches, Heartaches
13   Drowning On Dry Land
14   Monkey Dog
15   He's My Son (Just The Same)
16   I've Been Searching
17   Motherless Child
18   I'm Going Home (To Live With God)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (3/12/93, p.62) - "...These moving songs from 1964-74 resound with the basic truths and sweet eloquence of Memphis soul..."
- Rating: B+

Title Note

Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.

Contains material recorded for the Duke-Peacock subsidiary, Back Beat, between 1964 and 1974.

O.V. Wright is part of the Pantheon Of 1960s Soul, up there with Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding. He's not as well known as them--at least in America--but his songs have been covered by Redding, the Rolling Stones, Robert Cray, and Ann Peebles. Like Burke and Franklin, his vocal style was heavily based in Southern gospel music, passionately balancing the sacred and the secular. Wright fervently implored, pleaded, and howled his tales of love lost, strayed, thwarted, or shattered. "A Nickel and a Nail" is one of the finest distillations of no-way-out desperation ever recorded. Wright affirms his love to the heavens by crying out the dramatically devotional "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy." The music is prime Memphis rhythm & blues: full of sharp, terse guitar, rich Hammond organ, and gospel-informed background vocals--tight and funky but never slick.

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