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Various - Wattstax: The Living Word flac album
  • Performer Various
  • Title Wattstax: The Living Word
  • Date of release 1972
  • Country US
  • Style Soul, Funk
  • Other formats WAV ASF AHX DMF FLAC AU MOD
  • Genre Soul & Funk
  • Size MP3 1115 mb
  • Size FLAC 1784 mb
  • Rating: 4.9
  • Votes: 997

Wattstax redux - this fat double album is a second slice of the Stax label experience. Recorded at the Los Angeles Coliseum in the summer of 1972 during the label's day-long festival, Wattstax 2 completes a comprehensive highlight of the whole experience.

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The soundtrack album to the 1972 festival, Wattstax: The Living Word captured the power, heart and sense of unity and purpose behind the pioneering event. If you were African-American and young-ish in Los Angeles during the summer of ’72, you had to be one of the estimated 112,000 other festival-goers that witnessed the first act to hit the Memorial Coliseum stage on 20 August. Wattstax was massive.

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Tracklist

A1 The Staple Singers Oh La De Da 4:56
A2 The Staple Singers I Like The Things About Me 6:10
A3 The Staple Singers Respect Yourself 4:35
A4 The Staple Singers I'll Take You There 5:25
A5 Eddie Floyd Knock On Wood 3:34
A6 Eddie Floyd Lay Your Loving On Me 5:05
B1 Carla Thomas I Like What You're Doing To Me 3:31
B2 Carla Thomas Gee Whiz 3:43
B3 Carla Thomas I Have A God Who Loves 5:09
B4 Rufus Thomas The Breakdown 4:06
B5 Rufus Thomas Do The Funky Chicken 4:55
B6 Rufus Thomas Do The Funky Penguin 5:50
C1 The Bar-Kays* Son Of Shaft / Feel It 11:00
C2 The Bar-Kays* I Can't Turn You Loose 3:59
C3 Albert King Killing Floor 4:00
C4 Albert King I'll Play The Blues For You 5:34
C5 Albert King Angel Of Mercy 5:52
D1 The Soul Children* I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To 6:49
D2 The Soul Children* Hearsay 7:28
D3 Isaac Hayes Ain't No Sunshine 17:36

Credits

  • Engineer [Recording] – Dave Purple, Pete Bishop, Ray Thompson, Tom Scott , William Brown*
  • Producer – Al Bell
  • Supervised By [Recording Supervision] – Dave Purple, Tom Nixon

Notes

Gatefold cover.

Recorded live at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, August 20, 1972, except "Oh La De Da" & "Lay Your Loving On Me" re-recorded at Paramount Studios, Muscle Shoals Sound Studios & Ardent Studios.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
STS-2-3010 Various Wattstax: The Living Word ‎(2xLP, Album, Mon) Stax STS-2-3010 US 1972
STS-2-3010 Various Wattstax: The Living Word ‎(2xLP, Album) Stax STS-2-3010 Canada 1972
2362-031 Various Wattstax, The Living Word ‎(2xLP) Stax 2362-031 UK 1972
STS-2-3010 Various Wattstax: The Living Word ‎(2xLP, Album) Stax STS-2-3010 US 1972
STS 2-3010 Various Wattstax, The Living Word ‎(2xLP, Album, Promo) Stax STS 2-3010 US 1972