James Carr's powerful Goldwax label music is on a par with such deep soul greats as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Don Covay, Aretha, and yes, Sharon Jones. Carr's semi- obscurity stems from the weakness and collapse of his record label, not the quality of his music. Most of his catalogue has been unavaliable for decades. Check it out!
This album goes hand in hand with James Carr's other Goldwax release of "You got my mind messed up" (also available here on eMusic) and whilst 2 of the tracks are duplicated, the remainder are top class soul from someone who never got the true recognition he very much deserved. Wow indeed.
It's great that emusic has the two Goldwax albums by James Carr. They are both excellent examples of prime 60s southern soul!
One of the best "Soul" albums you'll ever hear. Solid right through and James Carr just nails it. Never was and never will be a better version of Dark End Of the Street.
It's about time emusic got this album up. James Carr is still one of the greatest and probably one of the more under rated singers of all time. This album is amazing!
This is the original version of Dark End of the Street and I can't wait to see if the rest of James Carr's stuff is as fine.
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