Raw, Gritty, Live R&B Performances
October 23, 2014 12:09 PM Subscribe
Recently I've been all about Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, Etta James Rocks the House, and James Brown Live at the Apollo. Can you recommend other live soul or R&B recordings that have the same kind of raw energy?
There are so many to choose from, but my favorite live JB album is Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68, and it too will blow you away. And the T.A.M.I. Show segment is music history in the making. But it's also a blast of the past and the future wrapped up in one, telling the now that now ain't shit. Ad infinitum.
posted by blucevalo at 12:31 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by blucevalo at 12:31 PM on October 23, 2014
Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival, or also any other time
posted by one_bean at 1:12 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by one_bean at 1:12 PM on October 23, 2014
I don't think they have a live album out, but they are a live, touring band, so if you want that experience yourself I'd recommend checking out Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. (If a non-live but high energy album is accetable, try 100 Days, 100 Nights.)
posted by Diablevert at 1:57 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by Diablevert at 1:57 PM on October 23, 2014
"Soul Power" is actually the documentary footage of James Brown's concert in Zaire, where Muhammad Ali was fighting. Features James, Bill Withers, a young and fired up Celia Cruz (and although they don't perform) a young and innocent looking Sister Sledge.
posted by nubianinthedesert at 3:11 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by nubianinthedesert at 3:11 PM on October 23, 2014
Warning time Sink
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Warning time sink
posted by kanemano at 6:46 PM on October 23, 2014
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Warning time sink
posted by kanemano at 6:46 PM on October 23, 2014
Johnnie Taylor's 'Live at the Summit Club' is great. JB's 'Love Power Peace' is also awesome. For Marvin, I'd take 'Live at the London Palladium' before Montreux--there's a moment where he starts singing 'Distant Lover,' and the crowd just totally loses its shit.
posted by box at 7:18 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by box at 7:18 PM on October 23, 2014
One more: Aretha Franklin's Fillmore shows with the King Curtis band. There are a bunch of editions--I'd suggest the exhaustive Rhino 'Don't Fight the Feeling'--Ray Charles guest shot on 'Spirit in the Dark'!
posted by box at 7:22 PM on October 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by box at 7:22 PM on October 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
One song: Wilson Pickett's live 'In the Midnight Hour' with Magnificent Montague. It's on some Pickett best-ofs, and it's transcendent.
posted by box at 7:25 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by box at 7:25 PM on October 23, 2014
(If you're into soul-jazz, check out Grant Green and Lonnie Smith's live albums from Detroit's Club Mozambique.)
posted by box at 7:32 PM on October 23, 2014
posted by box at 7:32 PM on October 23, 2014
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The James Brown segment is music history in the making.
posted by swoopstake at 12:26 PM on October 23, 2014 [1 favorite]