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In his perceptive liner notes to this excellent greatest-hits album, Dave Marsh makes the point that Clarence Carter, alone amongst the great Southern soul singers of the '60s, was the final link in a long chain of blind blues singer-guitarists ... Full Descriptionstretching back to Blind Willie McTell. You can hear the justification for Marsh's observation several times here, particularly on a straight blues like "The Road of Love" (yes, that's Duane Allman's distinctive slide guitar ping-ponging from speaker to speaker) or the overtly jokey "Back Door Santa."
Carter is just as persuasive in the Memphis soul style, as exemplified by his glorious cheating anthem "Slip Away" and a cover of the Box Tops "Soul Deep." The album's most astonishing moment, however, is the four-minute rap about human sexuality that prefaces Carter's version of James Carr's "(Making Love) on the Dark End of the Street." The mixture of salacious absurdity and unbridled fervor results in performance art of the highest caliber.
Live Recording
Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh.
Personnel: Clarence Carter (vocals, guitar); James Johnson, Albert Lowe, Duane Allman, Travis Wammack (guitar); Gene Miller, Wayne Jackson, Harrison Calloway Jr., Jack Peck (trumpet); Aaron Varnell (tenor & baritone saxophone); Charles Chalmers, Andrew Love, Joe Arnold, Harvey Thompson (tenor saxophone); Floyd Newman, James Mitchell, Ronnie Eades (baritone saxophone); Clayton Ivey (piano, organ, keyboards); Barry Beckett (piano, organ); Linden Oldham (piano); Marvell Thomas (organ); David Hood, Jesse Boyce, Bob Wray, Jerry Masters (bass); Roger Hawkins, Freeman Brown, Fred Pouty, Cornell McFadden (drums); Donna Rhodes, Charles Chalmers, Sandy Rhodes (background vocals).
Entertainment Weekly (6/19/92, p.72) - "..a monumental document of how powerfully sinful music could grow from righteous gospel roots.." - Rating: B+ Hide Description Snatching It Back: The Best Of Clarence Carter Music | List Price | $10.97 (You save $1.42) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Rap, Blues, Atlantic Soul, R&B, Greatest Hits Collections | | Label | Rhino | | Orig Year | 1992 | | All Time Sales Rank |  11774  | | CD Universe Part number | 1117024 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 21, 1992 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Rick Hall | | Recording Time | 58 minutes | | Personnel | Barry Beckett - piano, organ
David Hood
Duane Allman
Wayne Jackson
Andrew Love
Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone
Clayton Ivey - piano, organ, keyboards
Bob Wray
Floyd Newman
Clarence Carter - vocals, guitar
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