Sweet Southern Soul

Sweet Southern Soul Artist: Lou Johnson
Label: Water
Category: Music


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


UPC: 646315713220
EAN: 0646315713220
ASIN: B0001XANVM


Release Date: 2004-05-27

Sweet Southern Soul


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Tracks:

  1. Rock Me Baby
  2. It's In The Wind
  3. This Magic Moment
  4. She Thinks I Still Care
  5. Move And Groove Together
  6. Please Stay
  7. I Can't Change
  8. Tears, Tears, Tears
  9. People In Love
  10. Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
  11. Gypsy Woman

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars SSS is great, but not Lou's best album........2005-02-27

I'm glad that someone finally put at least one of Lou Johnson's albums back in print. I've been a long time fan of Lou Johnson's "booming" baritone voice. In the early 60's, he was sort of marketed as the male Dionne Warwick, having orginally released some of Burt Bacharach's songs even before Dionne. It's unfortunate, however that there isn't a compilation of some of these fine recordings including the old 45's of "Unsatisfied", "Park Avenue", "This Night", "Always Something There to Remind Me", and his biggest hit, "Reach out for Me". I think this would have been a better place to start for those not familiar with Lou Johnson's music. I do like "Sweet Southern Soul", however, except that copying a lot of soul artists of that time, Atlantic marketed him by having him sing some of the pop soul songs of the day -- not many originals here. If you really want to hear a superior album, scout around for an import copy of his Stax/Volt album, "With you in Mind". In my opinion, this album smokes SSS in quality, originality, and creativity. In a nutshell, SSS is a good album, but to me it doesn't do him proper justice considering what I know of his 60's releases and the forementioned album, "With You In Mind".

5 out of 5 stars Sme of the best soul singing I have ever heard.......2004-06-14

Sweet Southern Soul is just a great album. There isn't a bad song on it. Lou Johnson's style is emotional and very energetic. On B.B. King's "Rock me Baby" Lou Johnson belts it out like he is singing gospel. This cd is just awesome. As obscure as Lou Johnson is he is still one of the best soul singer i have ever heard.

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