Joe Tex

The Very Best Of

 Joe Tex

Label: Charly

 SNAP252CD

 CD Digipack

Price:  £ 8.80  (£7.65 outside EU)

 

25 TRACKS FROM SOUTHERN SOUL STAR

A leading purveyor of the Southern & Country Soul style, Joe Tex produced consistently fine records throughout the Sixties, right up to the time of his early death from a heart attack in 1982.

 

During this period Joe Tex notched up over thirty hits in the US alone, making him one of the most successful R&B/Soul singers of all time.

 

Perhaps the most rustic of the soul stars, his distinctive ‘preacher’ singing style, often humorous, is recognised as being an important precursor to modern day rap and hip hop.

 

He was also one of the first to embrace and popularise funk music with hits like 1967’s Skinny Legs And All and even went on to score a major hit in the disco era with his irrepressible Ain’t Gonna Bump No More. 

 

This collection includes all of Joe Tex's major hits from 1965 to 1977, which were recorded in the main at Muscle Shoals and released on Buddy Killen’s Dial label.

 

 

1. Hold What You've Got
2. A Woman Can (Change A Man)
3. A Sweet Woman Like You
4. I Want To (Do Everything For You)
5. Don’t Make Your Children Pay (For Your Mistakes)
6. The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
7. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It
8. S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)
9. Papa Was, Too
10. Show Me
11. Woman Like That, Yeah
12. A Woman's Hands
13. Skinny Legs And All
14. Men Are Gettin' Scarce
15. I'll Never Do You Wrong
16. You Need Me, Baby
17. Buying A Book
18. You're Right, Ray Charles
19. Takin' A Chance
20. I Gotcha
21. You Said A Bad Word
22. Have You Ever (Alternate Mix)
23. Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
24. The Same Things It Took To Get Me (Are The Same Things It Takes To Keep Me) (Duet With Marble John)
25. She Said Yeah

 

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