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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Anyone who gives this album the once-through will be struck by the spirited delivery, sensuous atmosphere and Bonnie Bramlett's thrilling vocals. In fact, the record serves as a primer for what went on to be called "roots rock" and "blue-eyed soul" and represents the missing link in Eric Clapton's evolutionary tree. So, really, it's a rock masterpiece that ought to be in anyone's collection, right?
Not far wrong. Husband-and-wife team Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett released this, their debut, on the Stax label - then a struggling new imprint - in 1969. Bonnie already had the distinction of being Ike Turner's only white Ike-ette and her full-throated style bears the Tina Turner seal of approval; Delaney had a long pedigree as an in-demand session musician and songwriter: their first album should have gone stellar, especially when it was backed by Booker T & the MGs and the cream of Stax's soul/blues roster.
In fact, it performed only modestly at the time. Why? Hard to imagine, because this creamy confection of countrified soul just breathes effortless class - as well it might, considering who's on board. There was, one gathers, some prejudice at the time towards white musicians trying to appropriate black music. Certainly, their second offering took them in a more rock-orientated direction, a stylistic choice that landed them a supporting gig for Blind Faith, which is how Eric Clapton came to play on tour with them and their sound thoroughly infiltrates Clapton's '70s output. See? There's a lot of rock history condensed, sonnet-style, into this act.
I suspect the commercial indifference was more down to the album's feel-good, deep-in-love ethos, a statement of positive domestic bliss at odds with the increasingly embittered and politicised pop culture of '69 and '70. Take, for example, the album closer, Berns/Rogovoy's awesome "Piece of My Heart". Yes, it was Janis Joplin's version that got all the attention, but for me it's Bonnie who nails the song, in a slow-burning fashion, understated at first and building to an ecstatic climax without any of ol' Pearl's now rather dated histrionics.
Delaney can turn out a nice vocal flourish too, on Booker T's "Everybody Loves a Winner" (with the deathless chorus refrain "but when you lose - you lose alone!") and the romance and infectious sexual chemistry on "My Baby Specializes" and "It's Been a Long Time Coming" is simply irresistable.
I guess this wonderful album illustrates an important law in popular music, that the qualities that can make something a classic are the very features that can get it passed over on first release - its emotional authenticity, unadorned technical brilliance and a disdain for chasing "issues" through music. Think about Abbey Road, released the same year, where the Beatles went back to basics and won immortality, whereas who now listens to In the Court of the Crimson King or even Blind Faith?
There's a whole back catalogue to explore with Delaney & Bonnie and you could build a very respectable music collection of off-and-on the beaten track music from the late '60s and early '70s entirely by sourcing their bandmates and collaborators. But the place to start is "Home".
Not far wrong. Husband-and-wife team Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett released this, their debut, on the Stax label - then a struggling new imprint - in 1969. Bonnie already had the distinction of being Ike Turner's only white Ike-ette and her full-throated style bears the Tina Turner seal of approval; Delaney had a long pedigree as an in-demand session musician and songwriter: their first album should have gone stellar, especially when it was backed by Booker T & the MGs and the cream of Stax's soul/blues roster.
In fact, it performed only modestly at the time. Why? Hard to imagine, because this creamy confection of countrified soul just breathes effortless class - as well it might, considering who's on board. There was, one gathers, some prejudice at the time towards white musicians trying to appropriate black music. Certainly, their second offering took them in a more rock-orientated direction, a stylistic choice that landed them a supporting gig for Blind Faith, which is how Eric Clapton came to play on tour with them and their sound thoroughly infiltrates Clapton's '70s output. See? There's a lot of rock history condensed, sonnet-style, into this act.
I suspect the commercial indifference was more down to the album's feel-good, deep-in-love ethos, a statement of positive domestic bliss at odds with the increasingly embittered and politicised pop culture of '69 and '70. Take, for example, the album closer, Berns/Rogovoy's awesome "Piece of My Heart". Yes, it was Janis Joplin's version that got all the attention, but for me it's Bonnie who nails the song, in a slow-burning fashion, understated at first and building to an ecstatic climax without any of ol' Pearl's now rather dated histrionics.
Delaney can turn out a nice vocal flourish too, on Booker T's "Everybody Loves a Winner" (with the deathless chorus refrain "but when you lose - you lose alone!") and the romance and infectious sexual chemistry on "My Baby Specializes" and "It's Been a Long Time Coming" is simply irresistable.
I guess this wonderful album illustrates an important law in popular music, that the qualities that can make something a classic are the very features that can get it passed over on first release - its emotional authenticity, unadorned technical brilliance and a disdain for chasing "issues" through music. Think about Abbey Road, released the same year, where the Beatles went back to basics and won immortality, whereas who now listens to In the Court of the Crimson King or even Blind Faith?
There's a whole back catalogue to explore with Delaney & Bonnie and you could build a very respectable music collection of off-and-on the beaten track music from the late '60s and early '70s entirely by sourcing their bandmates and collaborators. But the place to start is "Home".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I am very much a latecomer to the delights of the music of Delaney & Bonnie but now am very much a fan. I was aware of their connection with Eric Clapton but had not heard any of their work until 2009 when my local library was having a CDs clearout: I bought 4 for £2 and one of them was a reissue of D & B TOGETHER(1972)- which I soon learned was a sad/ironic title since they split both musically and maritally soon after its original release.
I enjoyed the album so bought ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON - loved it -and subsequently read Jon Rowe's superbly written and comprehensive review of HOME and added it to the collection.
This piece is intended as a supplement to what Jon has written since I see no point in going over the same ground.The following might be of interest:
1.Of the 16 tracks,6 are bonus ones and instead of being tacked onto the 10 songs on the original album, the running order has been totally re-sequenced:the bonus tracks appear at 1,5,9,12,13 and 14. The result is a seamless whole and, believe me, the extra songs are just as good as the original 10.
2. This package runs out at 47mins 24 seconds whereas the 10 tracks on the original album clock in at just under 30 minutes.If you bear in mind in 1969 an LP cost about 29 shillings, this is the equivalent in today's money of about £19! Not surprising it didn't sell too well.
3. By the time HOME was originally released by Stax, D&B had left the label after an acrimonious split: there's a lot of splits you'll find in D&B's story.Consequently,they weren't around to promote the album since they'd signed to Electra.To add to that, apparently,the same year, Stax released an avalanche of albums(27 in all?)in a vain bid to make a major impact on that market so it's no surprise HOME got lost somewhere down the line.
4.For me, there's a question mark over what D&B and Stax were aiming at because, according to the sleeve notes, the music was recorded between February 1968 and July 1969 which in those days was an unheard of length of time to "put down a record".Maybe Stax were after singles success and then changed course to release an LP to try and recoup some of their investment?
5.I have given this 4 stars not because of any reservations about the contents - because this is great soul music and deserves to be heard - but my personal view is that ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON is an absolute 5 star gem and the freedom and the loose feel of the band on it made for a better platform for them and you get that feeling of two singers at the top of their form.
5.
I enjoyed the album so bought ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON - loved it -and subsequently read Jon Rowe's superbly written and comprehensive review of HOME and added it to the collection.
This piece is intended as a supplement to what Jon has written since I see no point in going over the same ground.The following might be of interest:
1.Of the 16 tracks,6 are bonus ones and instead of being tacked onto the 10 songs on the original album, the running order has been totally re-sequenced:the bonus tracks appear at 1,5,9,12,13 and 14. The result is a seamless whole and, believe me, the extra songs are just as good as the original 10.
2. This package runs out at 47mins 24 seconds whereas the 10 tracks on the original album clock in at just under 30 minutes.If you bear in mind in 1969 an LP cost about 29 shillings, this is the equivalent in today's money of about £19! Not surprising it didn't sell too well.
3. By the time HOME was originally released by Stax, D&B had left the label after an acrimonious split: there's a lot of splits you'll find in D&B's story.Consequently,they weren't around to promote the album since they'd signed to Electra.To add to that, apparently,the same year, Stax released an avalanche of albums(27 in all?)in a vain bid to make a major impact on that market so it's no surprise HOME got lost somewhere down the line.
4.For me, there's a question mark over what D&B and Stax were aiming at because, according to the sleeve notes, the music was recorded between February 1968 and July 1969 which in those days was an unheard of length of time to "put down a record".Maybe Stax were after singles success and then changed course to release an LP to try and recoup some of their investment?
5.I have given this 4 stars not because of any reservations about the contents - because this is great soul music and deserves to be heard - but my personal view is that ON TOUR WITH ERIC CLAPTON is an absolute 5 star gem and the freedom and the loose feel of the band on it made for a better platform for them and you get that feeling of two singers at the top of their form.
5.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Deep Soul
13 Oct 2006
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If Gram Parsons (and, I would argue, Gene Clark) was the first musical artist to marry 1960's Rock and Roll with Country and Western, then Delaney & Bonnie may have been the first to marry Rock with Soul. Sounding like a white Otis Redding and Tina Turner (Bonnie was once an Ike-ette), and with Booker T. and the MGs backing them on most of the tracks, the mercurial couple rip through a set of heartfelt, gut-wrenching Southern soul, with some Rock and Roll Attitude. It's no wonder that after hearing this record, people like Eric Clapton and George Harrison were willing to drop what they were doing to be mere sidemen is Delaney & Bonnie's band. The sound is raw, the songs are great, and it is a great pleasure to listen to the singing of both Delaney and Bonnie, each of them being gifted vocalists. This is like Exile on Main St. meets Otis Redding's Greatest Hits.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Soulful Memphis Down-Home Gospel Groove
15 Nov 2006
Format:Audio CD
How could this one have passed me by thirty or so years ago. I was listening to Delaney & Bonnie On Tour with Eric Clapton in my dorm room back in 1969. And I even caught them live at the old Capital Theatre in Portchester, NY around early 1970. Believe it or not they were the headliners and the opening act was The Allman Brothers Band and Johnny Winter And. But I loved all of their stuff, especially To Bonnie From Delaney. I always thought of their act as a kind of "Blue-Eyed Soul" version of Ike & Tina Turnner. But this album, Home seems to have completely passed me by.
That is until now. How could I have not heard this somewhere, someplace? Stax records and their trademark Memphis Soul "house-band", (better known as Booker T & The MG's)....COME ON!!!...Where Was I????.......All I know is I'm sure glad I caught up with this Soulful Memphis Down-Home Gospel Groove EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!BABY THIS ROCKS.......CRANK IT UP!!!!!Delaney & Bonnie can compete with the likes of Ike & Tina and even Otis & Carla.
If you like Memphis Soul and want to hear the best......I mean some of the very best session players that ever blew...Then check this puppy out!!!! I can't stop playing this disc man........How the F..............did I miss this one all those years ago???????
P.S. I learned today Jan 3, 2009 of the passing of Delaney Bramlett. What a tremendous loss to the music world. Delaney Bramlett leaves behind an incredible legacy. Both as a solo artist and with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, he played with everyone from Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, George Harrison, Carl Raddle, Jim Gordon, Bobby Whitlock, Leon Russell and so many more. R.I.P. old friend. You sure left behind a trunk load of memories and some great, great southern soul and R&B. I suppose you're up there jammin' with Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Otis Redding and so many others who passed on long before their time.
That is until now. How could I have not heard this somewhere, someplace? Stax records and their trademark Memphis Soul "house-band", (better known as Booker T & The MG's)....COME ON!!!...Where Was I????.......All I know is I'm sure glad I caught up with this Soulful Memphis Down-Home Gospel Groove EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!BABY THIS ROCKS.......CRANK IT UP!!!!!Delaney & Bonnie can compete with the likes of Ike & Tina and even Otis & Carla.
If you like Memphis Soul and want to hear the best......I mean some of the very best session players that ever blew...Then check this puppy out!!!! I can't stop playing this disc man........How the F..............did I miss this one all those years ago???????
P.S. I learned today Jan 3, 2009 of the passing of Delaney Bramlett. What a tremendous loss to the music world. Delaney Bramlett leaves behind an incredible legacy. Both as a solo artist and with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, he played with everyone from Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, George Harrison, Carl Raddle, Jim Gordon, Bobby Whitlock, Leon Russell and so many more. R.I.P. old friend. You sure left behind a trunk load of memories and some great, great southern soul and R&B. I suppose you're up there jammin' with Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Otis Redding and so many others who passed on long before their time.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Delaney and Bonnie pure STAX soul style.
18 Feb 2009
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This is Delaney& Bonnie's STAX outing. The musicians on this set comprise the heart& soul of the STAX rhythm section, we have members of Booker T& The MG'S (Donald "Duck" Dunn,Steve Cropper,Al Jackson and Booker T. Jones)also featured are Stax vet Eddie Floyd("Knock on Wood"),Black Moses Issac Hayes and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock. The 10 tracks are marvelous examples of Memphis Soul. Bonnie Bramlett's voice echoes Tina Turner and a (cleaned up) Janis Joplin. The first track a D&B written original.. "It's been a Long time coming" echoes best that deep soul influence that Delaney& Bonnie reflected. The Issac Hayes and David Porter original "My Baby specializes" is another fine example of D&B ability to absord the soul and ride along the groove. The cover is even interesting on this album, a photo of Delaney and Bonnie sitting in the doorway of a 150 year old cabin in Pontotoc, Mississippi with Delaney's Grandfather (1969).I'll never understand why this disc was never issued domestically (it's STAX an all-American record company)I hope now that the Concord group has purchased Fantasy music(who previously owned the STAX label) they will see it fit to issue this music domestically,as it now stands you can only purchase this disc online or on vacation in England. This disc is also the only of D&B music to feature and all Southern music ensemble,which highlights that southern music vibe that Delaney and Bonnie brought fourth so finely. Sadly Delaney Bramlett recently passed away in California..R.I.P. you Rockin' Soul Brother.
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