Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul

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Overview

It may open up with Aaron Neville's 1993 rendition of George Jones' classic "The Grand Tour," but Ace's 2012 compilation Behind Closed Doors: Where Country Meets Soul focuses on the golden age of country soul -- the late '60s and early '70s, the age when the borders between these two strands of southern American music became decidedly blurring. And many of the 23 cuts on Behind Closed Doors are firmly within the Southern soul tradition -- slow, smoky, gritty, and soulful, anchored by languid stride piano and buttressed by muscular horns. Most of the sides slide by at a slow tempo, rhythms that usually groove to a deep funk and occasionally are given a sweet, smooth soul veneer (the Limelites' "Before the Next Teardrop Falls") but often the proceedings are stately, the better to showcase the singer (Percy Sledge's "Take Time to Know Her," Tony Borders' "Gentle On My Mind," Solomon Burke's "He'll Have to Go," Brook Benton's "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye"). All this slowness means that the cuts that do pick up the tempo really stand out from the pack: Cookie Jackson's take on Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" blazes, and Moses & Joshua Dillard's ebullient rendition of Wynette & David Houston's "My Elusive Dreams" is positively addictive. But even if there's not a whole lot of variety here, there are plenty of good cuts that capture country-soul at its best. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	07/03/2012
Label:	Kent / Kent Uk
UPC:	0029667237529
Rank:	93437

Tracks

1. The Grand Tour  - Aaron Neville  - George Richey  - Carmol Taylor  - Norris "Norro" Wilson
2. He'll Have to Go  - Audrey Allison  - Joe Allison  - Solomon Burke
3. Take Time to Know Her  - Steve Davis  - Percy Sledge
4. I Saw Me  - June Davis  - George Jones  - Esther Phillips
5. My Elusive Dreams  -  Dillard  - Curly Putman  - Billy Sherrill
6. Hangin' On  - Ira Allen  - Buddy Mize  - Ann Peebles
7. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You  - Lee Ross  - Bobby Sheen  - Bob Wills
8. Wings Upon Your Horns  - Loretta Lynn  - Tami Lynn
9. Before the Next Teardrop Falls  - Vivian Keith  -  Limelites  - Ben Peters
10. I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry  - Al Green  - Hank Williams
11. Life Turned Her That Way  - James Carr  - Harlan Howard
12. He Called Me Baby  - Harlan Howard  - Candi Staton
13. The Chokin' Kind  - Z.Z. Hill  - Harlan Howard
14. Yours, Love  - Harlan Howard  - Joe Simon
15. Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad  - Cookie Jackson  - Billy Sherrill  - Glenn Sutton
16. Detroit City  - Arthur Alexander  - Danny Dill  - Mel Tillis
17. Gentle On My Mind  - Tony Borders  - John Hartford
18. Don't Touch Me  - Hank Cochran  - Bettye Swann
19. Set Me Free  - Clarence Carter  - Curly Putman
20. Behind Closed Doors  -  Little Milton  - Kenny O'Dell
21. If You're Not Back in Love By Monday  - Millie Jackson  - Glenn Martin  - Sonny Throckmorton
22. Skip a Rope  - Jack Moran  - John Palumbo  - Joe Tex
23. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye  - Brook Benton  - Doug Gilmore  - Mickey Newbury

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Esther Phillips   Primary Artist
Limelites   Primary Artist
Solomon Burke   Primary Artist
Tony Borders   Primary Artist
Joe Simon   Primary Artist
Joe Tex   Primary Artist
Bobby Sheen   Primary Artist
Z.Z. Hill   Primary Artist
Ann Peebles   Primary Artist
Percy Sledge   Primary Artist
Bettye Swann   Primary Artist
Al Green   Primary Artist
Aaron Neville   Primary Artist
Arthur Alexander   Primary Artist
Candi Staton   Primary Artist
Clarence Carter   Primary Artist
Moses & Joshua Dillard   Primary Artist
Brook Benton   Primary Artist
Millie Jackson   Primary Artist
Tami Lynn   Primary Artist
Cookie Jackson   Primary Artist
Little Milton   Primary Artist
James Carr   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Harlan Howard   Composer
Danny Dill   Composer
Curly Putman   Composer
John Palumbo   Composer
Glenn Martin   Composer
Hank Cochran   Composer
Steve Davis   Composer
Glenn Sutton   Composer
Hank Williams   Composer
George Richey   Composer
Mickey Newbury   Composer
Norris "Norro" Wilson   Composer
Mel Tillis   Composer
Loretta Lynn   Composer
Vivian Keith   Composer
John Hartford   Composer
Lee Ross   Composer
Carmol Taylor   Composer
Doug Gilmore   Composer
Ben Peters   Composer
Joe Allison   Composer
Ira Allen   Composer
Kenny O'Dell   Composer
Billy Sherrill   Composer
Bob Wills   Composer
Audrey Allison   Composer
Sonny Throckmorton   Composer
George Jones   Composer
Buddy Mize   Composer
Jack Moran   Composer
June Davis   Composer