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Of all the great singers of reggae's golden era, Toots Hibbert of Toots & the Maytals was always the one most profoundly influenced by American soul music, so when Jim Dickinson brought Toots to Ardent Studio in Memphis to cut a set of '60s soul classics with a band anchored by reggae's greatest rhythm section, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and fleshed out with the cream of Memphis' session talent (including Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns and guitarist Eddie Hinton), it seemed like a foolproof no-brainer. And, for a change, the no-brainer idea really worked; Toots in Memphis finds Hibbert in typically strong voice, jumping into these songs with full-throated passion (his take on "I've Got Dreams to Remember" makes him sound like the greatest Otis Redding fan the island of Jamaica ever produced, and is alone worth the price of admission), and the band finds a middle ground between reggae, funk, and soul that's sensual and entirely satisfying. Though Toots never quite takes these tunes away from Otis Redding, Al Green, James Carr, or any of the other masters who first recorded them, he never fails to put his own stamp on the material, and the result is one of the great cross-cultural party albums of all times. In 1976, Toots Hibbert cut an album called Reggae Got Soul, and on Toots in Memphis he proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Zelma Redding, ComposerLyricist - Joe Rock, ComposerLyricist - Otis Redding, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Green, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Mabon Hodges Lewis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Quinton M. Claunch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Alvertis Isbell, ComposerLyricist - Allen Alvoid Jones Jr., ComposerLyricist - Otis Redding, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ann Peebles, ComposerLyricist - Donald Maurice Bryant, ComposerLyricist - BERNARD MILLER, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Jeffrey James Malone, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jackie Moore, ComposerLyricist - Sly Dunbar, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Robbie Shakespeare, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Bernard Crawford, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Steve Bogard, ComposerLyricist - Larry Rogers, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Carl Wells, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Frederick Hibbert, ComposerLyricist - Sly Dunbar, ComposerLyricist - Toots Hibbert, MainArtist - JIM DICKINSON, Producer - Larry McDonald, ComposerLyricist - Robbie Shakespeare, ComposerLyricist - Mabon Hodges Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Marc Chung, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Of all the great singers of reggae's golden era, Toots Hibbert of Toots & the Maytals was always the one most profoundly influenced by American soul music, so when Jim Dickinson brought Toots to Ardent Studio in Memphis to cut a set of '60s soul classics with a band anchored by reggae's greatest rhythm section, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and fleshed out with the cream of Memphis' session talent (including Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns and guitarist Eddie Hinton), it seemed like a foolproof no-brainer. And, for a change, the no-brainer idea really worked; Toots in Memphis finds Hibbert in typically strong voice, jumping into these songs with full-throated passion (his take on "I've Got Dreams to Remember" makes him sound like the greatest Otis Redding fan the island of Jamaica ever produced, and is alone worth the price of admission), and the band finds a middle ground between reggae, funk, and soul that's sensual and entirely satisfying. Though Toots never quite takes these tunes away from Otis Redding, Al Green, James Carr, or any of the other masters who first recorded them, he never fails to put his own stamp on the material, and the result is one of the great cross-cultural party albums of all times. In 1976, Toots Hibbert cut an album called Reggae Got Soul, and on Toots in Memphis he proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:21
- Main artists: Toots Hibbert
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
- Genre: World
© 1988 UMG Recordings Inc. ℗ 1988 UMG Recordings Inc.
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