£15.00 Post
Quarter to eight on a Saturday morning. Always a nice time. Postman rings and brings up an enormous rectangular parcel. Why on earth not square, record shaped? Still. A great start to a weekend.
From the sleeve:
'Like most people perhaps,' Dusty says, 'I associated Memphis with one kind of sound, a hard R&B sound. That's not the thing I can do, and I'd rather leave it to those who can.'
As it turned out she needn't have worried. That's not what Atlantic had in mind. As Wexler puts it, 'We wanted to let her do her own thing, but we also wanted to give it a new validity.'
Memphis was surprising to Dusty in several ways. ' I had no idea how far out of the R&B bag the Memphis musicians could go. I discovered that their versatility is amazing, and their musical knowledge is extremely wide'
This record is a reward to me for the nine to five.The greatest soul singer Britain ever produced.
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