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The Soul of O.V. Wright [Import]

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Product details

  • Audio CD (11 Sep 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Import Music Services
  • ASIN: B000002OM4
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,900 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. You're Gonna Make Me Cry 3:23£0.69
Listen  2. I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy 2:46£0.69
Listen  3. When You Took Your Love From Me 3:07£0.69
Listen  4. Gonna Forget About You 2:13£0.69
Listen  5. Everybody Knows (The River Song) 3:01£0.69
Listen  6. Don't Let My Baby Ride 3:03£0.69
Listen  7. I Don't Want To Sit Down 2:04£0.69
Listen  8. Born All Over 3:20£0.69
Listen  9. Ace Of Spades 2:23£0.69
Listen10. Eight Men, Four Women 3:06£0.69
Listen11. A Nickel And A Nail 3:45£0.69
Listen12. Heartaches, Heartaches 2:56£0.69
Listen13. Drowning On Dry Land 2:55£0.69
Listen14. Monkey Dog 2:23£0.69
Listen15. He's My Son (Just The Same) 2:49£0.69
Listen16. I've Been Searching 2:39£0.69
Listen17. Motherless Child 2:34£0.69
Listen18. I'm Going Home (To Live With God) 2:44£0.59

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O.V. Wright is part of the Pantheon Of 1960s Soul, up therewith Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding. He'snot as well known as them--at least in America--but his songs have been covered by Redding, the Rolling Stones, Robert Cray, and Ann Peebles. Like Burke and Franklin, his vocal style was heavily based in Southern gospel music, passionatelybalancing the sacred and the secular. Wright fervently implored, pleaded, and howled his tales of love lost, strayed, thwarted, or shattered. "A Nickel and a Nail" is one of the finest distillations of no-way-out desperation ever recorded.Wright affirms his love to the heavens by crying out the dramatically devotional "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy". The music is prime Memphis rhythm & blues: full of sharp, terse guitar, rich Hammond organ, and gospel-informed background vocals--tight and funky but never slick.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Otis Redding and Percy Sledge?, 23 Nov 2002
By Cies (Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands) - See all my reviews
Between 1964 and 1972 O.V. Wright recorded 4 albums and a handfull of singles for Duke/Peacock's subsidary Back Beat. In this period Wright made his best records (do not forget to listen to his Goldwax single "That's how strong my love is" also from 1964 available on the "The Goldwax Story Vol 1). Wright's voice is sowewhere between Percy Sledge and Otis Redding, and as soulful as both if not even more. Is that possible; having a more soulful voice than Percy 'when a man loves a woman' Sledge and Otis 'try a little tenderness' Redding. I never considered this possible, but Wright's voice cuts even deeper in your heart/soul (or wherever it hurts when you hear great music) than anyone else's on tracks as " A nickel and a dime" and "He's my son". Wright's voice is on this album the perfect mix of powerful delivery and sheer vulnerability which make O.V. Wright one of the great voices in the history of (Southern/Deep) Soul. So anyone who likes the great and well known voices in soul music should listen to O.V. Wright.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Giant Of Soul, 6 May 2008
By David Miller (Ashford, Kent,UK) - See all my reviews
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O V Wright would not normally be one of the first names mentioned in any debate on the greatest of all soul singers but he is surely up there with them all. Originally signed to the legendary Memphis label Goldwax, Wright was found to have a prior contract with Duke Robey's Peacock and was 'persuaded' by Robey to cut his ties with Goldwax. This did him no harm however as he proceded to record some of soul music's finest sides. Backed by a classic organ dominated rhythm the gospel trained Wright laid down some of the most impassioned vocals in the entire soul canon. Cuts such as A Nickel And A Nail and Id Rather Be Blind Crippled And Crazy testify to this most gifted of singers. By all accounts O V was a difficult and troubled man and died prematurely in 1980. If you have even a passing interest in Deep Soul, I implore you to buy this. Then, please write your own review and help spread the word.
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