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- Date Released: January 1, 1973
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Soul/R&B, Soul
- Label: Fantasy / Stax
A stirring set of songs, sung from the perspective of the black urban everyman during the Nixon era.
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We Say...
A mainstay of the Stax roster for over a decade, Bell didn’t have sufficient charisma or gravitas to truly fill Otis’s shoes, but his hits like “I Forgot to Be Your Lover” and “Private Number” (a duet with Judy Clay) kept the Stax cash registers jingling in the years following Redding’s death. Bell’s last two albums for Stax, 1973’s Phases of Reality and 1974’s Relating, reflected the social, political and personal concerns of the black urban everyman during the Nixon era, with “Save Us,” “Fifty Dollar Habit,” “Phases of Reality,” “The Man in the Street,” “Nobody Walks Away from Love Unhurt” and “Drinkin’ and Thinkin’” among the many highlights.
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They Say...
Many of Stax's releases in its final years were dull soul. But by the standards of the era, William Bell's second-to-last Stax LP was an above-average affair that was more diverse than many such efforts of the time. The three songs he co-wrote with guitarist Horace Shipp Jr. were socially conscious tunes in a different bag than the straightforward romantic odes Bell usually purveyed. "Save Us" was indebted to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On era, with a Philly-influenced funk/soul groove, and "Fifty Dollar Habit" was, of course, about drug use. Elsewhere, Bell stuck mostly to love songs, self-penned and otherwise, getting into a pre-disco lope on the title track, with the sweet soul balladry of "What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me" and "If You Really Love Him," and the light, reggae-influenced rhythms on "Lonely for Your Love." [The album is now available as part of a reissue that combines Phases of Reality and Bell's final Stax LP, 1974's Relating, onto a single CD.]
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| 01. |  |
Save Us |
3:19 |
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| 02. | |
True Love Don't Come Easy |
2:51 |
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| 03. | |
Fifty Dollar Habit |
3:35 |
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| 04. | |
What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me |
3:48 |
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| 05. | |
Phases Of Reality |
3:12 |
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| 06. | |
If You Really Love Him |
4:00 |
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| 07. | |
Lonely For Your Love |
2:47 |
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| 08. | |
The Man In The Street |
3:00 |
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| 09. | |
Lovin' On Borrowed Time |
4:03 |
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| 10. | |
All I Need Is Your Love |
2:45 |
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| 11. | |
Such A Fever |
3:08 |
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| 12. | |
Nobody Walks Away From Love Unhurt |
3:50 |
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| 13. | |
Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got) |
3:34 |
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| 14. | |
I've Got To Go On Without Your |
3:54 |
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| 15. | |
Drinkin' And Thinkin' |
4:37 |
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| 16. | |
You've Got The Kind Of Love I Need |
3:13 |
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| 17. | |
You Don't Want A Man |
2:59 |
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| 18. | |
Nobody But You |
4:37 |
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18 Total Tracks, 63:12 Total Length
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Credits
- William Bell - Vocals // William Bell - Vocals // William Bell - Producer // William Bell - Producer // William Bell - Main Performer // William Bell - Main Performer // Harold Beane - Guitar // Barry Beckett - Keyboards // Henry Bush - Engineer // Kirk Felton - Remastering // Roger Hawkins - Drums // Eddie Hinton - Guitar // David Hood - Bass // Clayton Ivey - Keyboards // Bobby Manuel - Guitar (Acoustic) // Bobby Manuel - Guitar // Jerry Masters - Engineer // Steve Melton - Engineer // Dave Purple - Engineer
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