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Mavis Staples, Only for the Lonely

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1351616

Disk length: 1h 6m 4s (21 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1993

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Until I Met You 2:51
2. Sweet Things You Do 2:41
3. The Choking Kind 3:28
4. You're Driving Me (To The Arms Of A Stranger) 3:25
5. A House Is Not A Home 4:30
6. Security 2:52
7. Son Of A Preacher Man 2:20
8. Pick Up The Pieces 3:09
9. Chained 2:53
10. Good To Me 3:20
11. You Send Me 2:59
12. I Have Learned To Do Without You 4:14
13. How Many Times 3:27
14. Endlessly 3:19
15. You're The Fool 2:40
16. Since I Fell For You 3:42
17. What Happened To The Real Me 2:40
18. Since You Became A Part Of My Life 3:34
19. It Makes Me Wanna Cry 2:55
20. Don't Change Me Now 2:29
21. That's The Way Love Is 2:24

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Review

Mavis Staples's earthy contralto was the Staple Singers' prime asset, and she finally recorded her first solo album in 1969. That album, Mavis Staples, was a tentative, unconvincing collection of pop standards like Dionne Warwick's "A House Is Not a Home," Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" and a pair of Otis Redding songs. The followup, 1970's Only for the Lonely, was much better, yielding the R&B hit "I Have Learned to Do Without You," the exquisite slow blues "How Many Times" and the finger-snapping Memphis soul of "It Makes Me Wanna Cry." Now the 20 tracks from those two albums have been combined on a single CD entitled Only for the Lonely (Stax), and supplemented with "That's the Way Love Is," a duet with Johnny Taylor from Boy Meets Girl, a Stax collection of male-female duets. This isn't Mavis Staples's best work--she went on to do much better singing with her family and on her own--but it's an invaluable glimpse at the first solo steps by one of America's finest singers --Geoffrey Himes

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Only for the Lonely

Tracks: 14 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 43m 39s (-23m 35s)

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