"Featuring their hits "Bend Me, Shape Me" and "Gin House Blues," Amen Corner's debut album (the group's sole album for DERAM) was the work of a band who didn't either really fit into any of the trends of the late '60s. They offered an accomplished mix of blue-eyed soul-rock and British pop. Built around the distinctive high vocals of Andy Fairweather Low, they also had (unlike most British bands) a horn section, as well as a distinguished instrumentalist in organist Blue Weaver. They ripped through straight-ahead blue-eyed soul like "Our Love (Is In The Pocket)" with flair, and "Something You Got" was almost like a U.K. equivalent to Stax deep soul ballads. It offered barely any original material, a shame as a couple of Fairweather Low-penned B-sides showed the kind of psychedelic pop-influenced writing more akin to a band like late-'60s Small Faces. Fortunately, this CD added those B-sides, "Nema" and "I Know," as bonus tracks, along with two other cuts from 1967-1968 singles." (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)
Nederlands
| Titel | Round Amen Corner : The Complete DERAM Recordings |
| Auteur | Amen Corner |
| Type materiaal | CD |
| Uitgave | Rpm Records, 1968 |
| Overige gegevens | 1 disc |
| Annotatie | Tracks: (1) Amen Corner - Bend Me, Shape Me (original by The Outsiders [US]); (2) Amen Corner - Judge Rumpel Crassila; (3) Amen Corner - Love Me Tender (original by Elvis Presley); (4) Amen Corner - Our Love Is (In The Pocket) (Bratton/Clinton/McCoy; originally recorded by Darrell Banks); (5) Amen Corner - Something You've Got; (6) Amen Corner - I Am An Angel (But I Can't Fly); (7) Amen Corner - Expressway (To Your Heart) (Gamble/Huff; original by The Soul Survivors); (8) Amen Corner - Good Times (original by The Easybeats); (9) Amen Corner - Let The Good Times Roll/Feel So Good (original by Shirley & Lee); (10) Amen Corner - Can't Get Used To Losing You (Pomus/Shuman; originally recorded by Andy Williams); (11) Amen Corner - Lost And Found; (12) Amen Corner - Gin House (based on "Me And My Gin", originally recorded by Bessie Smith); (13) Amen Corner - I Don't Want To Discuss It And Amen (Beatty/Cooper/Shelby; originally recorded by Little Richard); (14) Amen Corner - I Know; (15) Amen Corner - The World Of Broken Hearts; (16) Amen Corner - Nema; (17) Amen Corner - Satisnek The Job's Worth; (18) Amen Corner - High In The Sky; (19) Amen Corner - Run, Run, Run. |
| Taal | Nederlands |
| Onderwerp algemeen | Beat; Sixtiespop |
