Joe Tex covers show up in the oddest places. Buddy Killen was one busy song-selling-son-of-a-gun from next door.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Joe Tex Month: The Coasters/Sleepy LaBeef Connection
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Labels: Coasters, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, Sleepy Labeef
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Show me a man that's got a good woman...
That's Joe Tex from "The Joe Tex Show" tearing up "Show Me".
Against the better side of my human nature, I actually read the comments on this youtube video to try to find out when and where there was ever a "Joe Tex Show", and while there was one commenter wondering the same thing, there was no answer. Does anyone know about this?
Here's Joe slowing it down for the kids on Hullabaloo with "The Love You Save"
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Labels: Hullabaloo, Joe Tex, The Joe Tex Show
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Joe Tex month day 8: The Early Dial Sides
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 10:00 AM 3 comments
Labels: Buddy Killen, Dial Records, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, Rufus Thomas
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Joe Tex month day 21: JT and the sons of a gun from next door
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 1:51 PM 2 comments
Friday, February 24, 2012
Joe Tex month day 24: The Soul Clan
In 1968 Joe Tex found himself in yet another one of those situtations where he was ahead of his time and involved in something that has interesting echoes in modern day soul, r&b and rap: the Soul Clan.
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 10:32 AM 0 comments
Labels: Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, Don Covay, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, Otis Redding, Roc-A-Fella Records, Sam Cooke, SAR, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
February is JOE TEX month!
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 12:19 PM 1 comments
Monday, February 20, 2012
Joe Tex month day 20: the deep soul albums - Happy Soul & Buying a Book
Regardless, they're both really good records with lots of great tracks.
Side one of Happy Soul in particular stands up with any LP side of soul music you'd care to name. A bunch of the tracks from this record have been posted elsewhere on Ichiban through the course of the month, but a couple haven't been covered yet. I'm a big fan of the home-town hi-jinx of "You Need Me", which has an almost Tom T. Hall vibe to it in terms of its telling little details. "Some were crying, and some bought lunch!"
And my DJ box is always packing the freight train of laffs that is "Go Home and Do It", because of one glorious occasion when I played it, much to the crowd's delight, right after some jerky couple finally got kicked out of one of my gigs for being obnoxious.
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 12:12 PM 5 comments
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Joe Tex month day 11: Ernie K-Doe-Nus Cut!
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 12:03 PM 2 comments
Labels: Dr. Filth, Ernie K-Doe, Instant, Joe Tex
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Joe Tex month: The Joe Tex Band
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Labels: Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, Joe Tex Band
Monday, February 20, 2012
Joe Tex Month Day 20 - "Papa Was Too" & "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" - Live and In Color in 1969
Joe Tex - Papa Was Too, By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Gala De Clôture 3.14.69) via bedazzled.tv
Posted by Spike Priggen at 12:43 PM 3 comments
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Memphis Boys
With Mark Ehmcke
1. I Gotcha - Joe Tex
2. Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
3. I'm Movin' On - Elvis Presley
4. Tip Your Waitress - The Memphis Boys
5. Games People Play - Brenda Lee
6. Hooked On A Feeling - B.J. Thomas
7. The Champion Part 1 - Willie Mitchell
8. Soul Deep - The Box Tops
9. You've Got My Mind Messed Up - James Carr
10. Just A Little Lovin' - Dusty Springfield
11. Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond
12. Angel Of The Morning - Merilee Rush
13. A Love That Never Grows Cold - Oscar Toney Jr.
14. Neon Rainbow - Petula Clark
15. You've Got To Have A Love To Be Happy - Sandy Posey
16. I Can help - Billy Swan
17. Chicken Crazy - Joe Tex
18. Angel From Montgomery - John Prine
19. In The Pocket - King Curtis
20. Wearin' That Loved On Look - Elvis Presley
21. I Wanna Roo You - Jackie DeShannon
22. Who's Watchin' Who - The Memphis Boys
23. Drift Away - Dobie Gray
24. New Orleans - Herbie Mann
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Labels: Boss Sounds, Mark Ehmcke
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Joe Tex Salutes Little Willie John
As seen in the Jet archives, here's a 1968 photo of Joe Tex performing in Detroit at a memorial benefit for the recently deceased Little Willie John.
Posted by Greg G at 8:11 PM 2 comments
Labels: 1968, Greg, Jet, Joe Tex, Joe Tex Month
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Doin' The Bump With Joe Tex
Seen here is a 1981 JET photo of Joe Tex on the dance floor. Well, to be fair, almost nobody looked very good in '81.
Posted by Greg G at 10:37 PM 1 comments
Monday, February 13, 2012
Joe Tex Month, Day 13: I've Got to Do a Little Bit Better
Joe's fourth Atlantic/Dial LP is, for me, his best - and one of the best soul LPs I've heard, period. Joe's performances are infectiously joyous, the arrangements on the tunes are exciting (and loaded with guitar!) and it's his best collection of original material ever. The two covers only add to the good natured, hilarious vibe of the entire record.
It starts with one of Joe's patented responses to a current hit, this time the "Tramp" rewrite "Papa Was, Too" (more on this one on Wednesday) and never lets up. "Watch the One (That Brings the Bad News)" is a great blues vamp about shoe shops, eating chicken, and rattling bags. "Lying's Just a Habit John" is a funny and instructional riff on the "Twistin' the Night Away" melody - it seems there are good lies and bad ones and John's are no good.
And the three that start side two are total jaw droppers. The countryish bowed bass fiddle hook that breaks up the title track is Buddy Killen arranging at its best. "The Truest Woman in the World" is one of JT's greatest sermons ("98% of us are jealous and suspicious and the other 2% are sneaking around!"). And what can be said about the soldier so in love with his girlfriend that he uses her letters to inspire him to get him some more enemies in "I Believe I'm Going to Make It" except maybe . . . "Batman and Robin!"
And then there's "S.Y.S.L.J.F.M" a song so good it gets its own post tomorrow.
Tip top! Get it at the record shop.
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Labels: Dr. Filth, great soul albums, Joe Tex
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
James Brown Month: Wall of Browned pt. 2 - Hank Ballard
James Brown was never afraid to give his King/Federal forefathers some - producing singles for the "5" Royales, recording a tribute album to Little Willie John and an album for Bill Doggett. But even if you were a major influence on JB, it doesn't seem like you got to ride for free.
None of his fellow Federales entered JB's circle more deeply than Hank Ballard. According to RJ Smith's Brown biography The One, seeing Ballard and the Midnighters' act was a major influence on the Famous Flames, and Ballard claimed that he repeatedly told Syd Nathan to sign the Famous Flames. So when the man who wrote "the Twist" saw his fortunes failing, Brown stepped in to help him out.
The first record Brown produced for Ballard was a 1963 recut of a Midnighter's classic, "It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)". The new version adds a vamped up intro and coda to the familiar parts of the song, and Ballard sounds clearly jazzed on the recording - shouting a Joe Tex/Jerry Lee style "THIS IS A HIT!" at the outset and commenting on the general quality of the track 2/3 of the way through.
1n 1968 Hank was put on the JB consciousness train, recording a couple of James's "black power" numbers, including his biggest post-Midnighters hit, "How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet)". This musically and thematically direct sequel to "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)", laden with some of the heavy didactics of "Don't Be a Dropout", except this time it was all about straight v. curly hair. Ballard delivers the message well, and the Dapps, who backed JB on "I Can't Stand Myself", rock out.
According to RJ Smith, Ballard that tells the story of this song. Apparently Hank and James suddenly found themselves surrounded by Black Panthers, who pulled guns on the two and demanded that Brown stop wearing his hair processed. So in some ways, "How You Gonna Get Respect" was James and Hank buying a little "protection" from the Panthers!
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 5:15 PM 3 comments
Labels: Dr. Filth, Hank Ballard, James Brown
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Scratchy 45s
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
When Ichiban Months Collide: Arthur Alexander covers Joe Tex!
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 10:30 PM 2 comments
Labels: Arthur Alexander, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, When legends collide
Monday, February 6, 2012
Baby, Be Good
Here's one of my favorites from Joe. Sounds good LOUD!
Joe Tex - Baby Be Good
Posted by Jukeboxmafia at 5:51 PM 0 comments
Labels: Joe Tex Month, Jukeboxmafia, Soul
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Joe Tex and Arthur Alexander - the sequel: I'm Not Going to Work Today
Obviously I'm not one to belabor a point, but here's a second connection between Mr. Ichibans of December and February. This time it comes courtesy of Clyde McPhatter.
On a 1966 Amy/Stateside 45 (seen here in its non-styrene UK pressing) Clyde covered the early Arthur Alexander hit, "Shot of Rhythm and Blues".
Posted by Mr. Soul Motion at 12:36 PM 2 comments
Labels: Arthur Alexander, Boot Hog Pefferly and the Loafers, Clyde McPhatter, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Songs of 1966
Posted by Debbie D at 9:53 PM 2 comments