Aretha Franklin King Curtis Live At Fillmore West 

Don't Fight the Feeling

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Limited Edition  CD Set. This classic Soul concert has never sounded so good.  Listening to this is a phenomenal experience, as if you are in the studio with the musicians! The Item is sealed, never opened or played. Quality pressing, and top notch printing for cover and liner notes.  Label: Warner, Lyrics: English.

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Don't Fight The Feeling: The Complete Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Fillmore West

(U.S. Edition)

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 In 1971 Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler, who signed Aretha and produced her classic studio recordings, was looking for ways to introduce The Queen Of Soul to a mainstream audience. So he turned to San Francisco’s flower children (“longhairs” as he referred to them) as an inroad to crossover success.  

  

 San Francisco's Fillmore West theater was a smaller venue than Aretha was accustomed to, but perfect as an intimate setting for a live album, released in May 1971 as Live At Fillmore West. Hot saxman King Curtis, who backed Aretha along with his specially assembled Kingpins and opened the three March shows, saw release of his own Live At Fillmore West set three months later. 

  

 Aretha had been touring with a band of her own, but Wexler had a different vision. “I finally persuaded her to use King Curtis and The Kingpins, one of the best rhythm sections of all,” he says in David Nathan’s liner notes to this Handmade release. “It gets the magic into a performance that comes out of [a] group that is self-contained. Having this core rhythm section put a whole new thing into her act.” Enter Curtis’s “dream team”: Cornell Dupree on guitar, Jerry Jemmott on bass, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie on drums, Truman Thomas on electric piano, and Pancho Morales on congas. Organist Billy Preston and The Memphis Horns also joined the lineup. 

  

 As a special, unexpected treat, Ray Charles joins Aretha’s third set on the “Spirit In The Dark” reprise after being summoned from the crowd. “I happened to be in San Francisco,” said Ray. “All of a sudden someone spots me and next thing I know Aretha’s come to get me.” 

  

 This four-disc Rhino Handmade box includes the tracks originally issued on both Aretha Franklin’s and King Curtis’s respective Live At Fillmore West LPs, plus 42 unreleased performances, including Aretha’s “Call Me” and Billy Preston’s version of George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.” 

  

Tracklist: INTRO KNOCK ON WOOD - The Memphis Horns WHOLE LOTTA LOVE - King Curtis THEM CHANGES - King Curtis A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - King Curtis MY SWEET LORD - Billy Preston ODE TO BILLIE JOE - King Curtis MR. BOJANGLES - King Curtis SOUL SERENADE - King Curtis MEMPHIS SOUL STEW - King Curtis SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (I’M YOURS) - King Curtis RESPECT CALL ME MIXED-UP GIRL LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER ELEANOR RIGBY MAKE IT WITH YOU DON’T PLAY THAT SONG YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY DR. FEELGOOD SPIRIT IN THE DARK SPIRIT IN THE DARK (Reprise) KNOCK ON WOOD - The Memphis Horns THEM CHANGES - King Curtis WHOLE LOTTA LOVE - King Curtis A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - King Curtis I STAND ACCUSED - King Curtis SOUL SERENADE - King Curtis MEMPHIS SOUL STEW - King Curtis RESPECT CALL ME LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SHARE YOUR LOVE WITH ME ELEANOR RIGBY MAKE IT WITH YOU YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY DON’T PLAY THAT SONG DR. FEELGOOD SPRIT IN THE DARK SPIRIT IN THE DARK (Reprise) KNOCK ON WOOD - The Memphis Horns THEM CHANGES - King Curtis A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - King Curtis ODE TO BILLIE JOE - King Curtis SOUL SERENADE - King Curtis MEMPHIS SOUL STEW - King Curtis RESPECT CALL ME LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SHARE YOUR LOVE WITH ME ELEANOR RIGBY MAKE IT WITH YOU DON’T PLAY THAT SONG YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY DR. FEELGOOD SPIRIT IN THE DARK SPIRIT IN THE DARK (Reprise) - Aretha Franklin with Ray Charles REACH OUT AND TOUCH (SOMEBODY’S HAND)