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 William Bell is a soul legend, yet you'd never know it - search for his name right now on google.co.uk, and William Bell Tractors Ltd. appears ahead of his Wikipedia entry. It's an astonishing oversight, considering that the man wrote songs as notorious as "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King and Cream, found himself sampled heavily in a hit as big as Dilated Peoples' "Worst Comes to Worst", was directly referenced by Van Morrison on one of his biggest hits, and was instrumental in establishing the sound of Stax, one of the most loved record labels in existence.
It's pretty clear from listening to Soul of a Bell that, given just a little bit of luck, William Bell would have been a lot more famous, and been considered one of the all-time soul greats by an awful lot of people. It's as harsh as hell that he was given two great original songs for his 1961 debut single - "You Don't Miss Your Water" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" - only for both of them to be later be sung by much bigger names. How many people know those songs through Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, and have no idea Bell was the first to perform them? Me, for one, until hearing this. It's not even just a matter of those two stealing his thunder - the multitude of people who've covered "Water" in particular (The Byrds, Peter Tosh, Brian Eno, The Triffids....) makes these songs sound like standards rather than Bell originals....full text |
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| William Bell's history illustrates just how singles-oriented soul was in the 1960s. Though he'd enjoyed a hit in 1961 with "You Don't Miss Your Water," it wasn't until 1967 that Stax finally released his first album, the magnificent The Soul of a Bell. From that classic and Bell's moderate hits "Never Like This Before" and "Everybody Loves A Winner" to heartfelt versions of "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long," everything on this album (reissued on CD in 1991) illustrates the gospel-drenched richness of Southern soul. Meanwhile, the influence of Motown and the Four Tops is hard to miss on the riveting single "Eloise (Hang On In There)," which should have been a major hit, but surprisingly, never even charted. The 2002 CD reissue adds alternate versions of "You Don't Miss Your Water" and "Any Other Way". ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide...full text |
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| A soul classic. William Bell is a soul legend, yet you'd never know it - search for his name right now on google.co.uk, and William Bell Tractors Ltd. appears ahead of his Wikipedia entry. It's an astonishing oversight, considering that the man wrote songs as notorious as "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King and Cream, found himself sampled...full text |
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