Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0226 Etta James: I’d Rather Go Blind (1967) Writer: | Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan Producer: | Rick Hall Label: | Cadet Album | Tell Mama (1968) Etta James was a constant presence on the U.S. singles charts in the early Sixties, thanks to such hits as “Trust in Me” and the song that became her signature, “At Last.” Her career derailed mid-decade, however, as she battled heroin addiction and spent time in a psychiatric hospital. In 1967, James was in need of a comeback. On the recommendation of Leonard Chess, who had originally groomed James into star material, she journeyed to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to begin recording her seventh album, Tell Mama. It would be one of James’s finest, featuring a stirring cover of Otis Redding’s “Security” and the heartbreaking love song “I’d Rather Go Blind,” comprising just two chords, which has only grown more devastatingly beautiful through the years. Indeed, “I’d Rather Go Blind” has aged at least as well as “At Last”—perhaps better, since it is not weighed down by as much nostalgia. The song is the musical equivalent of an open wound. James sounds like a woman tilting toward the abyss, trying, quite unsuccessfully, to accept that her man is leaving. “I’d rather go blind, boy,” she pleads, “Than to see you walk away from me.” Originally released as the B-side to “Tell Mama,” the song was not a hit. It did, however, factor into the popularity of the parent album (James’s first U.S. Top 100 hit in seven years) and greatly aided the vocalist’s comeback. youtu.be/uZt1xKtPbUQ
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