Wattstax: The Living Word
Various Artists
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DISC ONE 1. Salvation Symphony 7:56 Preview 2. Introduction 5:50 Preview 3. Lift Every Voice And Sing 3:36 Preview 4. Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) 3:39 Preview 5. Are You Sure 4:03 Preview 6. I Like The Things About Me 5:55 Preview 7. Respect Yourself 4:37 Preview 8. I'll Take You There 5:16 Preview 9. Precious Lord, Take My Hand 4:25 Preview 10. Better Get A Move On 4:01 Preview 11. Them Hot Pants 4:11 Preview 12. Wade In The Water 4:21 Preview 13. I Forgot To Be Your Lover 2:35 Preview 14. Explain It To Her Mama 2:50 Preview 15. I've Been Lonely (For So Long) 3:54 Preview 16. Pin The Tail On The Donkey 2:48 Preview 17. Knock On Wood 3:41 Preview DISC TWO 1. Peace Be Still 9:07 Preview 2. Old Time Religion 3:41 Preview 3. Lying On The Truth 3:39 Preview 4. Up Above My Head 4:04 Preview 5. Son Of Shaft / Feel It 9:19 Preview 6. In The Hole 2:57 Preview 7. I Can't Turn You Loose 3:48 Preview 8. Introduction 4:03 Preview 9. Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One) 3:32 Preview 10. Can't See You When I Want To 10:29 Preview 11. Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand) 3:14 Preview 12. Niggas 2:22 Preview 13. Arrest/Lineup 2:40 Preview 14. So I Can Love You 6:09 Preview 15. Group Introduction/Show Me How 5:35 Preview DISC THREE 1. Open The Door To Your Heart 7:01 Preview 2. Backfield In Motion 5:29 Preview 3. Steal Away 8:13 Preview 4. Killing Floor 3:49 Preview 5. Pick Up The Pieces 2:54 Preview 6. I Like What You're Doing (To Me) 3:34 Preview 7. B-A-B-Y 2:50 Preview 8. Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes) 3:08 Preview 9. I Have A God Who Loves 4:44 Preview 10. The Breakdown 4:38 Preview 11. Do The Funky Chicken 4:34 Preview 12. Do The Funky Penguin 5:51 Preview 13. I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To 6:53 Preview 14. Hearsay 7:28 Preview 15. Theme From Shaft 4:42 Preview Also available as
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In the summer of 1972, Stax Records had an idea that was larger than life. Stax’s co-owner, Al Bell, had wanted to expand the soul label’s West Coast presence and develop its Stax Films arm. The ideal way to do both was to stage the biggest soul concert in history — termed by one former staff member “the black Woodstock” — right in the center of South Central Los Angeles, a vast portion of which had been destroyed by fire in the Watts Riots. The concert, called Wattstax, proved a crowning moment for Stax as 112,000 people united at the Los Angeles Coliseum in a spirit of joy, pride and celebration. The resultant movie was a blockbuster and plays to this date in many music film festivals. And now the original two-LP soundtrack has been expanded to three CDs, including material from the original Wattstax album (which sold seven million copies in the SoundScan era alone) as well as from its sequel, Wattstax: The Living Word, along with samplings from Wattstax-related individual artist albums released in 1972-73.
This is the first domestic reissue of the complete Wattstax soundtrack, housed in a collectible Digipack featuring rare photographs and reproductions of vintage Wattstax-era posters. The package also contains a multi-page booklet on the story of Wattstax by noted soul music historian Rob Bowman and has been digitally remastered from the original tapes.
The expanded Wattstax volume features many Stax artists whose careers were surging in the early ‘70s: namely Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, William Bell, The Bar-Kays, The Emotions, Albert King, Little Milton, The Rance Allen Group, David Porter, The Soul Children, Mel & Tim, Fredrick Knight, Deborah Manning, Little Sonny and Richard Pryor. The set includes such hits as “Respect Yourself,” “I’ll Take You There,” “Gee Whiz,” “Theme from Shaft,” “Son of Shaft,” “Do The Funky Chicken,” “Backfield in Motion,” “Knock On Wood,” “Steal Away” and more — 47 songs in all on three CDs.
In addition to music from the concert, Stax filmed and recorded its artists all around town in clubs, churches and even in the studio. The expanded Wattstax anthology includes the best of the live festival from Wattstax and Wattstax: The Living Word plus a slew of previously unreleased festival performances, selected tracks from the club and church recordings staged during the week of the festival, and selected bits by comedian Richard Pryor that were recorded at the Summit Club in Los Angeles. Pryor’s contributions were originally used in the Wattstax film to connect the music performances with man-on-the-street commentary on issues that were then pertinent to black America. Included also is an introduction by the Rev. Jesse Jackson – himself a Stax spoken-word recording artist at the time.
Wattstax was hoped to be the first step in a series of urban festivals and movies to be produced by Stax, but sequels were never to materialize. The festival hit the zeitgeist of black America at that point in time. And 35 hot summers after the festival, the music sounds as fresh as ever.
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