Ruth Brown – Teardrops from My Eyes

This is a compilation. I know, it’s not my style usually but it seems that Ruth Brown was one of these artists who recorded in sessions and then released the results in singles or EP format.  But this, my friends, is a “proper” compilation. (I don’t know if you know that label, Proper, which releases “Proper introduction” to artists – I like the pun.)

 

Anyway, I got to find out about Ruth Brown when Ahmet Ertegun died last year. There was a very good paper in Mojo and they wrote about Atlantic, “the house that Ruth built”. So of course I got curious. And I wasn’t disappointed. Amazing artist, great choice of songs, the lovers of warm, sexy but also strongly opinioned feminine voice will be in a little paradise while listening to her majesty Ruth Brown.

 

The titles are eloquent: “Mama, he treats your daughter mean”, “I’ll get along somehow”, “Teardrops from my eyes”, this is rhythm & blues just because of its recording dates, because we are clearly in Deep Soul territory… for our greatest pleasure.

 

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Enjoy,

 

The Mike

 

PS: And she plays Mabel in the original Hairspray! I love that movie a little more now that I know that.