Stax Blues

Raw Blues promises but then something else than what it is actually heard - after all, it is a Stax recording of the best period of sharpest Soul label: it is a Soul recording .... in blues tradition. Although the first sounds almost like remember the mother of all black American music - the Soul still prevails already.

Johnnie Taylor could face Otis Redding the more interesting, because its diverse Stax Top Artist, even though he has a very similar voice Redding. He has - in contrast to Redding - phrasing technically really everything on it. He also plays with the Blues Raw Stax-house team Redding- and including the Memphis Horns, in the Stax studios a. Yet they differ two things:
Taylor plays strange songs, mainly by Porter / Hayes, Redding played mostly own or those that he wrote with Steve Cropper - the enormously increases the authenticity and persuasiveness Redding. But since Cropper alongside Isaac Hayes, Booker T Jones and Al Jackson Jr., who also produced the recording, is participating in the Stax record of 1969, Raw Blues is also with its strong blues feeling actually one of the strongest Taylor Soul recordings, if not one of the strongest Stax recordings at all - if there was not even these darn second reason would be: Taylor is not Redding - especially he has not its sex appeal .....

Nevertheless, strong. A erstklassie Soul Recording of the marriage of the Southern Souls, packaged in a first-class record-Design - I wish I owned the original LP - but requires the recording so slow a re-re-notch ring, this comes from the 1987th