O's Dubs

Soul Sides Vol. 1
A few years before he cut "Superman Lover," Watson put out an album (on Berkeley's Fantasy label) filled with these amazing soul/blues ballads on them. His voice is still as distinctive as ever but musically, it's far closer to sweet soul than the more funked up blues he'd make later. I had this LP in the crates for years but forgot about it; it wasn't until I heard Cool Chris at the Groove Merchant play it at the store that I remembered I had it and rediscovered it for a second time. Sample.

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Introduction
1. Charles May and Annette May Thomas: Keep My Baby Warm
2. Clarence Reid: Masterpiece
3. Lee Moses: Time and Place
4. Amanda Ambrose: Sad Songs
5. Erma Franklin: Piece of My Heart
6. Donny Hathaway: Jealous Guy
7. Linda Lyndell: What a Man
8. Jimmy Jones: Live and Let Live
9. Ann Sexton: You're Gonna Miss Me
10. Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Lovin' You
11. Joe Bataan: Ordinary Guy
12. Weldon Irvine: Morning Sunrise
13. William Bell: I Forgot To Be Your Lover
14. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: All Over Again