Cat No:
RLGM11241PMI
Release Date: 30 October 2020
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064011248
Genres: R&B
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Description
As the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom made abundantly clear, Merry Clayton is one of the greatest and most
distinguished female backup singers in rock and soul history, having sung with
everybody from Bobby Darin to Ray Charles to Joe Cocker to Linda Ronstadt to Neil Young to Lynyrd Skynyrd (on "Sweet Home Alabama").
But her most famous vocal turn, of course, was her 1969 duet ("It's just a shot away!") with Mick Jagger on "Gimme Shelter."
The notoriety she gained from that led to a recording contract with Lou Adler's Ode label, and to this 1970 debut solo record, which took its title from the Stones track and featured Merry's own hit solo version of the song. But don't stop there—produced by Adler, arranged by the great Gene Page, and featuring Billy Preston on keyboards, this album is an overlooked soul classic, with Merry's indomitable voice taking songs like James Cleveland's "Here
Come Those Heartaches Again," The Doors' "Tell All the People," and James Taylor's "Country Roads" to dizzying heights (she also turns "Bridge over Troubled Water" into the sanctified gospel hymn it truly is). For this reissue, we've pressed up 700 copies in totally cool, black & white "gray eye" vinyl! -
Tracklisting
- 1. Country Road
- 2. Tell All the People
- 3. Bridge over Troubled Water
- 4. I’ve Got Life
- 5. Gimme Shelter
- 1. Here Come Those Heartaches Again
- 2. Forget It I Got It
- 3. You’ve Been Acting Strange
- 4. I Ain’t Gonna Worry My Life Away
- 5. Good Girls
- 6. Glad Tidings
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Don't Come Easy
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Solitude & Sunshine--the Songs Of Rod Mckuen
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Henry Franklin
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Stephen J. Kalnich & Friends
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Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton
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