Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0236 James Carr: The Dark End of the Street (1967) Writer: | Chips Moman, Dan Penn Producer: | Q. Claunch, R. Russell Label: | Goldwax Album | You Got My Mind Messed Up (1967) James Carr received this song in 1966 from a professional and personal couple based in Memphis: twenty-five-year-old producer Dan Penn and former Stax session guitarist Chips Moman, five years Penn’s senior. The song was written during a break in a poker game at a music industry convention in Nashville. As Penn told writer Robert Gordon, the duo “were always wanting to come up with the best cheatin’ song—ever.” The singer’s ambitions were rather less lofty. Born in Coahoma, Mississippi, but raised in Memphis, the illiterate James Carr was eking out a living as a laborer while singing in various gospel groups when he met upstart manager Roosevelt Jamison in 1962. Jamison shepherded him into a deal with the small Memphis label Goldwax; one of the first sides he cut for them (secured in two takes) was this ballad of infidelity, lent grandeur by Carr’s proud, passionate baritone. Now seen as a southern-soul classic, “The Dark End of the Street” was one of several minor hits for Carr. However, hampered by a tragically unstable personality, the singer never made the major breakthrough his talent deserved, and was effectively out of the business before the dawn of the Seventies. His biggest hit, though, has been kept alive by some inferior covers and by Van Morrison, who incorporated a lyrical tribute in his 1979 single “Bright Side of the Road.” youtu.be/HC3AXQ8dPJM
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