JAMES, Etta - Tell Mama (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) - Vinyl (LP)
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Etta JAMES
Tell Mama (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series)
Chess
gatefold 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP Cat: 883729 6Rel: 20 Apr 26
Soul Side 1 - Track 1. Tell Mama Side 1 - Track 2. I'd Rather Go Blind Side 1 - Track 3. Watch Dog Side 1 - Track 4. The Love Of My Man Side 1 - Track 5. I'm Gonna Take What He's Got Side 1 - Track 6. The Same Rope Side 2 - Track 1. Security Side 2 - Track 2. Steal Away Side 2 - Track 3. My Mother-In-Law Side 2 - Track 4. Don't Lose Your Good Thing Side 2 - Track 5. It Hurts Me So Much Side 2 - Track 6. Just A Little Bit
Etta James cut Tell Mama in 1967 at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, arriving mid-career after years on Chess and stepping into a Southern soul circuit reshaped by tensions between Atlantic and Rick Hall's camp. Backed by the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, she hits a new stride here, voice sharpened and grounded, riding tighter, groove-led arrangements than earlier Chicago sides. 'Tell Mama' and 'Security' push hard with brass and drive, while 'I'd Rather Go Blind' pulls everything inward, a slower burn rooted in a song passed to her by Fugi Foster during a prison visit. Widely held as her defining LP, it marks a pivot from r&b roots into full Southern soul form, cut at one of the era's key studios.
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