3/14/2023 0 Comments Salty the songbook![]() For all other territories packaging is free and postage is charged on a weight basis. 23 Preview Love Waits For No Man - Al Johnson. ![]() 22 Preview Seventeen Year Old Girl - Mickey Buckins & The New Breed.21 Preview Where You Come From - Bonnie Bramlett.20 Preview People In Love - Lou Johnson.18 Preview Home For The Summer - The Hour Glass featuring Gregg & Duane Allman.17 Preview I Got The Feeling - The Amazing Rhythm Aces.16 Preview Standing On The Mountain - Percy Sledge.15 Preview Satisfaction Guaranteed - Judy White.14 Preview If I Had Let You In - The Box Tops.13 Preview Every Natural Thing - Aretha Franklin.11 Preview Help Me Make It (Power Of A Woman's Love) - Mink Deville.10 Preview It's All Wrong But It's Alright - Eddie Hinton.09 Preview Poor Mary Has Drowned - Brick Wall.08 Preview Always David - The Sweet Inspirations.06 Preview 300 Pounds Of Hongry - Tony Joe White.04 Preview A Little Bit Salty - Bobby Womack.02 Preview Down In Texas - Oscar Toney Jr.01 Preview Breakfast In Bed - Dusty Springfield.All offer a permanent testament to the talent of a man who was loved by his peers and is now recognised as a pivotal figure in the evolution of Muscle Shoals music. Some have never been reissued in any format. Many of the tracks included in “Cover Me” are making their first appearance on UK CD. If that isn’t an indication of how great a songwriter he was, then nothing is. ![]() Apart from Dusty Springfield, his compositions have been recorded by Cher, Lulu, Alex Chilton, the Drive By Truckers, Percy Sledge and Aretha Franklin, to name just a few discerning souls who recognised their abundant qualities. ![]() In many cases he also cut the original versions of his songs, and if you are at all familiar with any of the three volumes of his demos that our friends at Zane Records released in the early 2000s you will be able to hear how closely many of the artists here followed the template of his incredibly soulful voice.Įddie’s most famous song is probably ‘Breakfast In Bed’ but it is by no means the only great one in his catalogue. Eddie and his collaborators wrote great songs together, and many of the best can be heard here. Between 19 he was writing with Muscle Shoals notables such as Marlin Greene, Donnie Fritts and Dan Penn, as well as playing guitar on almost every session held at Quinvy and Muscle Shoals Sound studios between 19. The songs here span approximately the first 10 years of his career. This month Ace pays tribute to Eddie’s compositional skills by making him the latest exceptional talent to feature in our highly regarded Songwriter series. If anyone ever earned such a soubriquet, it was Eddie Hinton. No wonder he once wrote and recorded a song called ‘Hard Luck Guy’. Sadly, life dealt Eddie Hinton several poor hands in his 51 years on Earth, from a minor early 70s drugs bust that led to a premature departure from his home in Muscle Shoals to the release of a fantastic debut album in 1977 that got buried when his record label went bankrupt weeks afterwards, to a fatal heart attack in the 90s, just when he was finally beginning to achieve a long-deserved level of international recognition. Versions of two dozen of the finest compositions from one of Muscle Shoals’ most admired singer/songwriter/musicians of the 60s and 70s.Ītlantic Records’ Jerry Wexler said he was going to be “the next big thing” more than 40 years ago. ![]()
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