NO DEPRESSION -The Last Shade of Blue Before Black- THE ORIGINAL BLUES BRO.BAND -Severn Records-cd 0071 “…some of the most outstanding tracks hark back to his {Steve Cropper’s} work at STAX ,including original Stax stare Eddie Floyd’s remake of his 1967 hit ON A SATURDAY NIGHT and {Bobby}Harden’s take on the Rufus Thomas unrelenting Funk hit ITCH AND SCRATCH .Harden shifts things from Memphis to Muscle Shoals and delivers the COLLECTION”S HIGHLIGHT with a version of Dan Penn’s YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING, which is saying a lot given that the song’s pedigree includes versions by Wilson Pickett ,Otis Redding {the original demo} and Sam & Dave -ABSOLUTELY INFECTOUS ! "
This is the best performance of this song! And this is the best composition on the disc.
NO DEPRESSION -The Last Shade of Blue Before Black- THE ORIGINAL BLUES BRO.BAND -Severn
Records-cd 0071
“…some of the most outstanding tracks hark back to his {Steve Cropper’s} work at STAX ,including original Stax stare Eddie Floyd’s remake of his 1967 hit ON A SATURDAY NIGHT and {Bobby}Harden’s take on the Rufus Thomas unrelenting Funk hit ITCH AND SCRATCH .Harden shifts things from Memphis to Muscle Shoals and delivers the COLLECTION”S HIGHLIGHT with a version of Dan Penn’s YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING, which is saying a lot given that the song’s pedigree includes versions by Wilson Pickett ,Otis Redding {the original demo} and Sam & Dave -ABSOLUTELY INFECTOUS ! "