The Philosophy Continues

The Philosophy Continues Artist: Johnnie Taylor
Label: Stax
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218856324
EAN: 0025218856324
ASIN: B000000ZL3


Release Date: 1991-07-30

The Philosophy Continues


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Tracks:

  1. Testify (I Wonna)
  2. Separation Line
  3. Love Bones
  4. Love Is A Hurting Thing
  5. I Had A Fight With Love
  6. I Could Neve Be President
  7. It's Amazing
  8. Who Can I Turn To
  9. Games People Play
  10. It's Your Thing

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Deep southern grooves.......2006-08-03

Great deep southern soul music, featuring the legendary Stax house band (Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, et al.). Taylor's smoky, soulful vocals are to the forefront, gliding smoothly over the cool grooves. No surprises, just sweet soul music. The track "Separation Line" is the high point for me.

4 out of 5 stars Great 1970's soul & funk.......2004-01-13

How can I be the first person to review this album? And how is this man, one of the greatest soul singers that ever lived, still so under-rated and overlooked? Johnnie Taylor could flat-out sang! He was blessed with awesome pipes and bucketloads of soul.

This Stax album busts out with "Testify (I Wonna)", a hard-hitting funky tune that's right up there with anything released by James Brown or Otis Redding. Another blazing, stanky funk favorite of mine is "It's Amazing".

The album also features several slower r&b tunes that really allow Johnnie to show off his crooning skills. "Separation Line" is my favorite of the slower songs, but "Games People Play" is not far behind.

Johnnie Taylor belongs in the pantheon of great black male soul singers, chilling with Al Green, Otis Redding, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Ted Hawkins, and a few select others.

I'm tempted to give this 5 stars cause I dig it so much, but I'm trying to be stingier with my 5-star ratings and hand those out only to revolutionary albums.

If you're a fan of old-school soul, funk, and r&b, then you should have at least a few Johnnie Taylor albums in your collection, and "The Philosophy Continues" is a fine one to start with.

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  2. Hits! ~ Sam Cooke
  3. Do You Wanna Ride? ~ Adina Howard
  4. Plenty Good Lovin ~ Sam Moore
  5. The Ultra Selection ~ Luther Vandross
  6. Hi Records: River Town Blues ~ Various Artists
  7. The Best of Motorcity, Vol. 8 ~ Undisputed Truth , Joe Stubbs , and Frances Nero
  8. 0minous ~ Border Crossing
  9. A Proper Introduction to Mahalia Jackson: In the Upper Room ~ Mahalia Jackson
  10. Music of the Year: 1965 ~ Various Artists

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