In my early 20's, there was a Goodwill on Glenwood Avenue in Atlanta. Now we don't have the bins in Georgia like other states, but this Goodwill had a dollar store connected to it. Records were 10 for $1.00, so I snagged this one for a dime. I was in the practice of buying any privately issued records that looked interesting and a few years later would become an early adopter of the message board on Waxidermy (an important hub for many of us on the fringe of record collecting). It was a magic time for buying records. Pre-Discogs, so much uncatalogued music out there collecting dust. While ripping this one, i noticed the first song Sinner Man had a little more "love" to the grooves...probably because of listened to the song so many times over the last 20 years. This one speaks to the power of the ecstatic nature of religious music. I am not a believer in an anthropomorphic god, but "Sinner Man" makes me feel things that would be useless to explain. Beautiful washes of reverb...it feels like the church doors are open and people are coming and going. Maybe the band is rehearsing and people are cooking and smoking cigarettes outside. The back cover is such a powerful image. The tenderness of hands draped over each others shoulders. Some of the members smiling, some stern. It's such an encapsulation of life. Laughing with your boys, cutting up, but like just cutting up because your friend died last week and its all you can do to keep on. It's so sad, but it's beautiful and melancholy. And people are going to be born and die. And we are going to eat good and pay taxes and watch tv. Gonna start bands and write songs. Gonna have children and gonna go to war. That's just the way it is, but we are going to do some things along the way. Some beautiful things. This is the record I am grabbing if my house burns down. I paid a dime, but its worth more than anything to me. No date, but i'm guessing this is mid to late 70's. Recorded at Perfection Sound in Smyrna, Georgia, which if you dig in Atlanta you know the label. The Sensational Righteous Brothers were from Newnan, Georgia and were made up of: Ernest Melson (First Lead), Nathanal Russell (Second Lead), Joe H. Pope (Tenor, low bass on Sinner Man), Donnie Tuck (Second Tenor), Ricky Powell (Baritone, High Tenor on Sinner Man), Pete Reese (Bass Guitar), Lee A. Moss (Guitar), Danny Tuck (Drums), Melvin Talley (Rhythm Guitar).
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario