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Skinny Legs & All album for sale by Joe Tex was released Nov 20, 1995 on the Collectables label. Tex, whose style derived from gospel and country music, was one of the best and most versatile of Southern soul singers, as well as one of the few who was able to survive into the disco era without really changing his approach. This album collects most of his work between 1962 and 1969, beginning with his early efforts as a sort of Fats Domino wannabe ("You Got What It Takes"), and it includes both his breakthrough 1964 hit "Hold What You've Got" (Tex sings only the choruses--on the verses, he's basically delivering a sermon) and the rowdy and funny "Skinny Legs and All," the two songs that most define the outer limits of his style.24 tracks of his early Dial recordings from 1962-1968 Recorded between 1962 and 1968. Personnel: Joe Tex (vocals); Lee Royal Hadley, Leroy Hadley, Johnny Cristopher, Reggie Young (guitar); Clarence Ford, Sam Miller, Charles Farley, Eddie Williams , Excell Dorsett (tenor saxophone); Glenn Barbeaux, Mack Williams (baritone saxophone); Sammie Coleman, Warren Johns, Johnny Whitrack, Emile Hall (trumpet); Norman "Sly" Sellers (trombone); Bobby Woods (piano); Bobby Emmons (organ); J. Skinny Legs & All CD music contains a single disc with 24 songs. ...See Full Description
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Skinny Legs & All songs A revelatory collection of lesser known Joe Tex songs and outtakes recorded between 1968 and 1973, this is down-home Southern soul in the grand tradition. Tex, of course, was one of the best and most versatile of singers of the genre, one of the few who was able to survive into the disco era without really changing his style. Here, along with several middling R&B chart hits like "I'll Never Do You No Wrong" and the very funny old-guy-younger-babe opus "Buying a Book," there are also suitably dark and spooky covers of "The Dark End of the Street," (still the ultimate soul cheating song) and Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away."
22 track compilation from John Broven feat. the best of Joe Tex's 60's work, great southern soul music from a contemporary of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett & Percy Sledge on Atlantic Records
2 LPs on 1 CD: YOU'RE RIGHT, JOE TEX/THE KING OF DOWNHOME SOUL.
Personnel: Joe Tex (vocals); Eddie Hinton, Reggie Young (guitar); James Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Gene Miller (trumpet); Bobby Woods (piano); Bobby Emmons (organ); Dave Crawford , Barry Beckett (keyboards); David Hood, Tommy Cogbill (bass guitar); Gene Chrisman, Roger Hawkins (drums).
Liner Note Author: Clifford White.
Recording information: American Sound Studios, Memphis, TN (1967-1972); Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, AL (1967-1972); Sound Shop Studios, Nashville, TN (1967-1972).
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