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Like previous Honest Jon's release, His Hands, it starts with a love-as-endurance ballad, Breaking Down Slow. From Candi's country-ish side, we're transported to more urban and bluesy climes (the phlegmatic funk of Who's Hurting Now, and the lilting, horn peppered I Feel The Same).
Lonely Don't's cool Rhodes, searing slide guitar and ominous lyrics forge a dark companion-piece to the Will Oldham-penned title track from His Hands. For this record Oldham wrote the simple, satisfying Get Your Hands Dirty, whose chords sail rather close to the second half of Eric Clapton's Layla.
The musicians (again under the auspices of Mark Nevers) play looser and dirtier than last time around. There's more of a jam session feel, and despite the bittersweet subject matter, everyone sounds like they're having fun.
Candi Staton cut some of the South's most scorching soul anthems for FAME (blurring the carefully demarcated industry/media lines between country, blues and soul) before achieving crossover fame via the disco classic Young Hearts Run Free and, later, You Got The Love.
She retired from secular music for decades until Honest Jon's revitalised her career with a judiciously compiled retrospective bearing her name. Comeback record His Hands proved she's still got it, and while Who's Hurting Now doesn't represent much of a progression, it shows she's here to stay. --Angus Taylor
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In some senses, this is a well trodden path. Soul greats like Solomon Burke and Al Green have returned to form in recent years using current producers to evoke their prime, and here Candi Staton does the same. The track listing is unlikely to contain too many songs you will have heard before - they have been gathered from far and wide, mostly from obscure sources - but they have all been given the Southern Soul treatment by Candi's plaintive delivery.
Stand out tracks are Mercy Now, which reminds me of "In The Ghetto", "I Don't Want Anything", which has a beautiful melody, the funky "title track and the opener "Breaking Down Slow" which was co written by the great Dan Penn. But although everyone picks favourites, this is a truly superb album that proves that Soul might have gone out of fashion for a while but it never really went away.
Candi Staton will never get the push given to the likes of Amy Winehouse and Duffy, but with this album she shows the young pretenders how it's done. If you have heard and liked the current crop of neo-Soul singers, then get this album and immerse yourself in some real Soul from one of the originators. Recommended for lovers of Soul music.
It will be a pleasure to hear these songs performed live in Feb 2009 in Glasgow and I'm glad that a truly fantastic, gifted soul singer still has the desire to tour. In my opinion, one of the greatest ever.
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