Time: 47:32
Size: 108.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul
Year: 2003
Art: Front
[3:47] 1. Mama Was Right
[3:54] 2. Show Me The Man
[4:01] 3. Organic Love (100% Natural)
[2:37] 4. Sorry Wrong Number
[3:41] 5. Either Side Of The Same Town
[5:22] 6. All I Know Is The Way I Feel
[4:15] 7. Don't Compromise Yourself
[3:57] 8. Don't Need No Monkey On My Back
[3:27] 9. She May Be White (But She Be Funky)
[4:25] 10. Kiss
[4:13] 11. Eternity
[3:49] 12. Get It While You Can
Pop music has a virtual anti-pantheon of artists foiled by drugs, tragedy, and cruel fortunes. Indeed cult R&B star Howard Tate seems to have hit some sort of fateful trifecta in the mid-'70s, not only cutting short a promising career but leading to one of the most puzzling "whatever happened to?" stories in pop music. While Tate's vibrant 1960's hits lived on in covers by everyone from Janis Joplin ("Get It While You Can") and Jimi Hendrix ("Stop") to B.B. King ("Ain't Nobody Home"), the Philadelphia native abandoned the music business, sold securities, and wrestled with addiction until a mid-'90s religious experience led to his founding/pastoring a local church--and eventually to a fateful reunion with producer/writer Jerry Ragovoy, the original partner in Tate's abandoned musical legacy. Ragovoy calls Tate "the missing link between Jackie Wilson and Al Green," and the veteran team wastes no time showing it here, whether lighting up the bluesy "Mama Was Right" and "Sorry, Wrong Number" with a sinewy tenor that's miraculously persevered decades of neglect, bringing gospel fervor to the Elvis Costello co-written "Either Side of the Same Time" and "Get It While You Can," or playfully bobbing ‘n' weaving with the Uptown Horns on "She May Be White (But She Be Funky)." The album's classic Philly soul sound may break little new ground, but just hearing Howard Tate's taut, emotion-packed voice dart and soar like it's 1968 again is more than enough recommendation. --Jerry McCulley
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