Candi Staton

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Producers: Marcus Williams, Jerry Peters. Compilation producer: Myra Walker. Personnel includes: Candi Staton (vocals). Producer: Rick Hall. Compilation producer: Mark Ainley. Recorded at Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabamba between 1969 & 1973. Includes liner notes by Tim Tooher. A Southern soul legend to aficionados, but a relative unknown to just about everyone else, Candi Staton was given a serious re-examination via this self-titled anthology released on Astralwerks in 2004. At 26 tracks, the collection brings together nearly everything Staton recorded with Rick Hall at his legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, spanning the years 1967 to '73. Staton never garnered the same fame as other visitors to Hall's studio--Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett among them--but one listen to her strong, proud voice on "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)" or the way her sultry Deep South lilt unfurls on "He Called Me Baby," and it's clear that while Aretha might be the Queen, Candi's an esteemed member of the court. Staton would go on to have some disco hits in the later '70s before turning almost entirely to gospel, and though she's in fine voice during both of those stages, those cuts simply don't stack up to the sides found here. This is essential stuff.