A trove of gems from the obscure Watch Records label.,
March 28, 2010 Matt Elmer (Littleton, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New Orleans Soul 60's (Audio CD)
I got it for the Professor Longhair songs, among them: Third House from the Corner and Willie the Prince (both unavailable elsewhere on CD AFAIK), a rendition of Bald Head (his only national hit), a complete version of the original Big Chief (broken into two sides on the record), and There is Something on Your Mind. The real highlight of the disc, however, is Johnny Adams. His soulful re-imaginings of the standards Release Me (recently featured in the infamous iguana scene from Herzog's Bad Lieutenant) and Someday alone make this a buy.
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What Happened At The Social Club,
May 31, 2004 Jeffrey Rubard (Beaverton, OR US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New Orleans Soul 60's (Audio CD)
The location is New Orleans, and it's the early '60s all the way through: others have their new horizons, and Lee Dorsey is fixing Valiants at his auto body shop. Is all not well? There's someone to ask, and a place to ask it -- the social club, where people from all walks of life gather to discuss the issues of the day. Is there an *eminence grise*? Certainly, as Henry Roeland Byrd will be the first to tell you. But in the meantime, there is Watch Records and there is no harm done in taking a slightly "philosophical" attitude towards life amidst a certain level of "degeneracy" in social mores -- the music presented to us by this organization is exciting enough, but what it is not is *salacious*. If the "Big Chief" is around, any number of arrangements are possible, provided that the communal need for a humane organization of discourse concerning economic matters is honored: and if that wasn't enough, there's more than a little bit of generality to go around here. After all,...Read more
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