HOWARD TATE Eponymous from 72-WORKING CLASS SURPRISINGLY SWEET VOCAL-PROMO

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HOWARD TATE Eponymous from 72-WORKING CLASS SURPRISINGLY SWEET VOCAL-PROMO

A VG++ LP ON ATLANTIC SD 8303

FROM 1972 A RARE WHITE LABEL PROMOTIONAL ISSUE

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PRODUCED BY JERRY RAGOVOY AND RECORDED IN NYC AT THE HIT FACTORY

WITH SELDON POWELL, GARNETT BROWN, ERNIE ROYAL, BERNARD PRETTY PURDIE

WITH THE ORIGINAL ATLANTIC COLOR INNER SLEEVE AS SHOWN

TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE LABEL PHOTOS

BACKGROUND INFO FROM ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Howard Tate hopped labels during the late '60s and early '70s, skipping from Verve to Lloyd Price's Turntable to Atlantic and never releasing more than one LP for any of them. His lone Atlantic LP, a self-titled release from 1972, was the least consistent of the three; despite a few highlights that made it worth hearing for fans, the album was plagued by substandard songs that sapped Tate and his crack band. The person most at fault was, surprisingly, producer Jerry Ragovoy, who had written and produced Tate's best songs for Verve (as well as dozens of other soul classics). Unfortunately, he simply wasn't firing here and wrote a set of surprising duds, including "When I Was a Young Man" and "She's a Burglar" ("She's a burg-a-lar/she broke into my mind"). The arrangements are staid period soul, and while the musicians back Tate with confidence and energy, it's difficult for them to open up within such constrained charts. One of the few interesting songs is "Girl From the North Country," a Dylan cover never recorded by any other soul singer. Ragovoy and the band don't help him here, either, but Tate's performance -- beginning with control but growing gradually more uninhibited with every verse -- illustrated that he was still a master of soul. His own song, "The Bitter End," is also a highlight, a working-class narrative with a surprisingly sweet vocal.

COVER STOCK WITH OBVIOUS RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. SLEEVE EDGE WITH SOME SMALL NICK DENTS. TOP RIGHT CORNER WITH BEND MARK. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

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