Mavis Staples - Only For The Lonely

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:41
Size: 148.1 MB
Styles: R&B, Memphis soul
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[2:48] 1. Until I Met You
[2:38] 2. Sweet Things You Do
[3:25] 3. The Choking Kind
[3:23] 4. You're Driving Me (To The Arms Of A Stranger)
[4:27] 5. A House Is Not A Home
[2:47] 6. Security
[2:17] 7. Son Of A Preacher Man
[3:06] 8. Pick Up The Pieces
[2:51] 9. Chained
[3:16] 10. Good To Me
[2:55] 11. You Send Me
[4:09] 12. I Have Learned To Do Without You
[3:22] 13. How Many Times
[3:11] 14. Endlessly
[2:36] 15. You're The Fool
[3:35] 16. Since I Fell For You
[2:36] 17. What Happened To The Real Me
[3:29] 18. Since You Became A Part Of My Life
[2:50] 19. It Makes Me Wanna Cry
[2:26] 20. Don't Change Me Now
[2:24] 21. That's The Way Love Is

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

Only For The Lonely

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