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25 de may. de 2012 · This album is considered a classic by connoisseurs and knowledgeable critics the world over, and for good reason. It combines the awesome vocal stylings of Dusty Springfield (arguably the best and most soulful white female singer of her generation), with the organic virtuosity of the Memphis rhythm section, and the production genius of Atlantic records' Jerry Wexler.
13 de mar. de 2023 · 13 March 2023. “I hated it at first,” Dusty Springfield said in 1993, of her 1969 album, Dusty In Memphis. “I hated it because I couldn’t be Aretha Franklin .”. Springfield’s love for and support of Black American music was well established by the late 60s. She had helmed a TV show, The Sound Of Motown, in 1965; consistently talked ...
Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis is one of pop music's great fish-out-of-water stories. Springfield had been a successful pop singer for nearly a decade when she decided to move to Atlantic Records, home of Aretha Franklin and her producer Jerry Wexler (among other greats at the label), to cut her next album in Memphis with some of soul music's best musicians.
18 de ene. de 2024 · Dusty Springfield’s influence on other singers has likewise outlived the disappointments of her post-Atlantic work, most strikingly among this century’s British female pop singers. Adele, Duffy, Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone are only the most obvious heiresses to Springfield’s white soul legacy, captured in its purest form on Dusty in Memphis.
When Dusty was in Memphis, visiting from the UK to record an album with the city's hottest R&B musicians, she was too nervous to lay down vocals. What she overdubbed in New York remains revelatory: "Son of a Preacher Man" is confident, innocent and daring, and the vocals on "So Much Love" rise euphorically with the soulful strings.
14 de nov. de 2013 · As much as I admire her, Dusty in Memphis is a problematical album to review. In the first place, the title is somewhat misleading, for a couple of reasons. The liner notes state, in parentheses, “ (Dusty Springfield’s final vocals recorded in New York),” not a particularly rousing endorsement of Memphis as the place to go if you want to ...
Dusty in Memphis is the fifth studio album by English singer Dusty Springfield. She recorded the album at American Sound Studio in Memphis with a team of musicians and producers that included Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd, conductor Gene Orloff, backing vocalists The Sweet Inspirations, bassist Tommy Cogbill, and guitarist Reggie Young.
