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Funny, we can't remember this many singers turning up on the Crusaders' albums, but look a little closer at the liner. For this 1987 compilation -- designed, perhaps, to fill the gap between albums by a group that no longer was a full-time act -- MCA reached for records by B.B. King, Tina Turner, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder that various Crusaders played on, as well as the band's output from Street Life through The Good and Bad Times. B.B. takes the prize for his fabulous, humorously funky, live-in-London turn on "Better Not Look Down" -- he plays guitar so sparingly, and every note is right in the pocket -- but Joe Cocker comes close, riding on a classic bumpy Crusaders groove on "This Old World's Too Funky for Me." Of course, Randy Crawford's career-making "Street Life" leads off the set, and Tina Turner (in a lugubrious dissection of the Beatles' "Help"), Bobby Womack, Alltrinna Grayson, Bill Withers, Flora Purim and Josie James also contribute with various degrees of effectiveness. Despite a few weak moments, the album works amazingly well, partly as an alternative highlights collection and partly as a sober reminder to the remaining Crusaders and their fans as to how essential drummer Stix Hooper was to their sound.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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JOE SAMPLE, ComposerLyricist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - The Crusaders, MainArtist
℗ 1979 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stix Hooper, Producer - JOE SAMPLE, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - The Crusaders, MainArtist - Wilton Lewis Felder, Producer
℗ 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
B.B. King, MainArtist - JOE SAMPLE, ComposerLyricist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - The Crusaders, MainArtist
℗ 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stix Hooper, Producer - WILTON FELDER, Producer, MainArtist - BOBBY WOMACK, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - JOE SAMPLE, Producer - Derell Ray Nix, ComposerLyricist - Wilton Lewis Felder, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1979 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stix Hooper, Producer - Leonard Caston, ComposerLyricist - Stewart Levine, Producer - WILTON FELDER, Producer - B.B. King, MainArtist - Andrew Lloyd Webber, ComposerLyricist - JOE SAMPLE, Producer, String Arranger, Horn Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - The Crusaders, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1978 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stix Hooper, Producer - WILTON FELDER, Producer - Bill Withers, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - JOE SAMPLE, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Paulinho Da Costa, Participant - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - The Crusaders, MainArtist
℗ 1980 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
JOE SAMPLE, ComposerLyricist - Nancy Wilson, MainArtist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - The Crusaders, MainArtist
℗ 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stix Hooper, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - WILTON FELDER, Producer, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - JOE SAMPLE, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, FeaturedArtist - The Crusaders, MainArtist - Wilton Lewis Felder, Producer
℗ 1981 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Producer - WILTON FELDER, Producer, MainArtist - BOBBY WOMACK, Producer, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - JAMES GADSON, Producer - JOE SAMPLE, Producer - Alltrinna Grayson, FeaturedArtist - Paul Kisch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1985 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
JOE SAMPLE, Composer - Will Jennings, Author - Flora Purim, MainArtist - Josie James, MainArtist - The Crusaders, MainArtist
℗ 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Funny, we can't remember this many singers turning up on the Crusaders' albums, but look a little closer at the liner. For this 1987 compilation -- designed, perhaps, to fill the gap between albums by a group that no longer was a full-time act -- MCA reached for records by B.B. King, Tina Turner, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder that various Crusaders played on, as well as the band's output from Street Life through The Good and Bad Times. B.B. takes the prize for his fabulous, humorously funky, live-in-London turn on "Better Not Look Down" -- he plays guitar so sparingly, and every note is right in the pocket -- but Joe Cocker comes close, riding on a classic bumpy Crusaders groove on "This Old World's Too Funky for Me." Of course, Randy Crawford's career-making "Street Life" leads off the set, and Tina Turner (in a lugubrious dissection of the Beatles' "Help"), Bobby Womack, Alltrinna Grayson, Bill Withers, Flora Purim and Josie James also contribute with various degrees of effectiveness. Despite a few weak moments, the album works amazingly well, partly as an alternative highlights collection and partly as a sober reminder to the remaining Crusaders and their fans as to how essential drummer Stix Hooper was to their sound.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:43
- Main artists: The Crusaders
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve
- Genre: Jazz
© 1987 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1987 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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