Back To Artist
various : Burlap Palace: A Tribute to the Muscle Shoals Sound
Log in to add to your wishlist
The legendary Muscle Shoals "sound" of the 60s and 70s gets re-interpreted and updated for the 21st Century. Hip-hop, rock, folk, pop, electronica, and SOUL are all thrown into the mix to create one of the most engaging tribute albums you will ever hear.
Genre: Urban/R&B: Soul
Release Date: 2001
Burlap Palace: A Tribute to the Muscle Shoals Sound Record Label: Soundgun
  • Download Album (MP3) - $15.00
  • Buy CD - $15.00
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Tell Mama - Jeannie Brooks 2:42 $0.99
Slow Train - Devin Greenwood 4:28 $0.99
I'd Rather Go Blind - Beth Case 8:02 $0.99
Please Be With Me - Cynthia G. Mason 3:52 $0.99
Sweet Release - Songs:Ohia 7:08 $0.99
Good Things Don't Come Easy - The Boxcars 3:14 $0.99
Careless Whisper - Shotgun Squad 4:12 $0.99
Take A Letter Maria - Nixon's Head 3:34 $0.99
I'm Your Puppet - Richard Kaufmann 4:22 $0.99
Chain Of Fools - Poise 3:14 $0.99
Hey Jude - Georgie Bonds & The Blueskeepers 4:29 $0.99
I'll Be Long Gone - Brian Seymour 5:06 $0.99
preview all songs

Album Notes

[Burlap Palace] is an engaging tour de force.

Tributes to bygone musical eras and styles can mire in no-man's land: literal clonings may turn out retro and anachronistic. On the other side is the danger of over contemporizing with the bells and whistles du jour: click tracks, sampling, synths, feedback, and the like can destroy period authenticity.

[Burlap Palace] pulls it off. Using a cast of homegrown Philly pickers and vocalists, [Producer Edan Cohen] brings a nostalgic echo of Etta [James], Aretha [Franklin], [Wilson] Pickett, and company. At the same time he does manage to update the music so that it resonates with the sonorities of today.

And, wisely, he has used the services of Shoals legend Jimmy Johnson to help recall another time and another place.

- Jerry Wexler
(former Vice-President of Atlantic Records)

Read more...

REVIEWS

it's everything i want to feel.
author: Lindsey Cooper
of course i would be hesitant to listen to any songs remade by any other than the original artist.... but i eased into this so quickly.... the way it is composed makes you feel right about the music. The songs themselves may have been done and re-done, but not not so well before. Everything i expect is there.
Read more...