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Lou Rawls: The Best of Lou Rawls: The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
by Chris M. Slawecki
This twenty-song anthology delivers the definitive overview of Lou Rawls' vocal accomplishments before his late-1970s run with Gamble & Huff for Philly International records popped him into the mainstream. Like so many other blues-influenced pop singers, Rawls begins right from The Source, the family church, through the opening “Motherless Child, from The Soul Stirring ...
Lou Rawls: The Best of Lou Rawls - The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
by Andrew Velez
This document of Lou Rawls' decade with Capitol in the '60s celebrates the beginnings of the recently departed artist, one of the rare male vocalists with a big, beautiful sound who could sing his butt off. His professional beginnings were with the gospel group The Singing Travelers, and their 1962 recording of “Motherless Child opens the ...
Lou Rawls: The Best Of Lou Rawls: The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
by Chris May
Although they're included almost as a postscript to this gorgeous collection of jazz and gospel-inflected blues, the last three tracks on The Best Of Lou Rawls are headline news in themselves. Three previously unissued tracks featuring legendary trumpeter Dupree Bolton!! Almost as under-recorded and unchronicled as Buddy Bolden, Dupree Bolton spent most of his adult life ...
Lou Rawls: The Best of Lou Rawls: The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
by Jim Santella
The emotional catch in Lou Rawls' voice and the unmistakable sound of his persona have long been staples of modern music: easy to love and comfortably familiar. When Rawls sings, everybody wants to absorb the lyrics. And following the message that accompanies each of his songs comes as natural as intimate conversation between two good friends.
The Very Best
By Lou Rawls
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2005
Track listing: Southside Blues/Tobacco Road; Your Good Thing (Is About To End); You Can't Go Home No More; At Last; Room With A View; Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood; All Around The World; This Bitter Earth; Good Morning Blues; A Lover's Question; I Just Want To Make Love To You; Sweet Slumber;
Live!
By Lou Rawls
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Stormy Monday; Southside Blues/Tobacco Road; St. James Infirmary; The Shadow of Your
Smile; I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water; Goin' To Chicago Blues; In the Evenin' (When the Sun
Goes Down); The Girl From Ipanema; I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good; Street Corner
Hustler's Blues/A World of Trouble.
Lou Rawls: Live!
by C. Andrew Hovan
With a talent for versatility, Lou Rawls can sing just about anything from jingles for beer commercials to spirituals (check out a recent reissue of The Pilgrim Travellers Featuring Lou Rawls on Mighty Quinn). In some ways, this chameleon-like character can be more of a hindrance than an asset. It's meant that over the years his ...
