Friday, March 13, 2009

Albert King, Steve Cropper, Pop Staples - Tupelo

In the wake of the 1968 album Super Session (featuring yesterday's duo of Bloomfield and Kooper), there was a brief craze for similar enterprises. This song is the fruit of one of those efforts, from Stax Records. Albert King, Steve Cropper, and Roebuck "Pop" Staples were all on the label at the time: King was at the height of his commercial success with a series of Cropper-produced records, as were the Staples Singers. Pops takes the lead vocal here.

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