Track Listing

1. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
2. Lost And Lookin'
3. Mean Old World
4. Please Don't Drive Me Away
5. I Lost Everything
6. Get Yourself Another Fool
7. Little Red Rooster
8. Laughin' And Clownin'
9. Trouble Blues
10. You Gotta Move
11. Fool's Paradise
12. Shake, Rattle And Roll

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118324 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Magnificent late-night soul
First of all, it is wonderful to see that this classic soul album is back in print. I had to search for quite some time to find it, so its return will make it easily available to soul fans new and old.

This album is widely hailed as Sam Cooke's most intimate, soulful piece of work. It is miles apart from his pop-oriented, somewhat fluffy (but still wonderful in their own way) hits that most people instantly would recognize (Wonderful World, Cupid, etc.). Instead, the songs here return to Cooke's gospel and R&B roots--raw emotion, passion, and conviction to go with his trademark melliflous tones. Cooke is surrouned by a marvelous band (including Billy Preston on organ) whose accompaniment provides minimal, but always tasteful instrumentation. Cooke's vocal performance is astounding technically and often deeply moving throughout. The songs are rock solid, and the performance captivating.

If you are new to soul music, this cd would be highly recommended as a great place to begin building a collection. If you are a fan of soul and R&B, it's simply an essential purchase.

Five-Star Soul
This is the definitive Sam Cooke album, which is unfortunate considering that it was released just prior to his untimely demise. It is a late-night R&B set of well-known standards with a couple of originals penned by the late great soul singer himself. Every track on this album is pure ear candy, made even more so with gorgeous remastered sound. Not only does Cooke's voice ring loud and clear through a good set of speakers, but the little instrumental nuances of the session musicians are also enhanced for greater effect, a good example being the "barks" and "howls" from Billy Preston's organ on "Little Red Rooster".

It's a real blessing to see this classic soul album reissued for the new millennium so that generations of music lovers both young and old can sample it for themselves and admire the exploits of a highly gifted, yet tragically short-lived talent.

Bluesy for late-night boozy
Very hard to trundle out enough superlatives for this one. The spacious, full sound of this new remastering is warm and inviting, as well it should be. Cooke's singing is uncanny, not of this world in its beauty. Funnily enough, his voice lightened
with the years: compare a 1954 side of his with one from this album (1964)and check out how his style evolved over the years, how much more subtle and understated his phrasing became. so often in his earlier work he exhibits the superb control that allows him to surge through a longish phrase, which is exhilarating. But here, in "Night Beat", his approach is more conversational, expecially in the ballads and the mid-tempo Blues numbers. He makes his breaths into caesuras, makes them an integral part of his phrasing, which makes for very compelling listening. And the band - featuring a young Billy Preston - is absolutely marvellous. Again, the pervading qualities are delicacy and precision, which is not to imply that these guys don't get into a good gut-bucket soul groove.
They swing like hell, in fact. This is, in short, a classic,
a gem. It's one of those records that transcends genre categories, simply because of the caliber of the musicianship.
Sheer artistry is the order of the day. You MUST buy this disc!