Sam Cooke at the Copa＜Black Vinyl＞

サム・クックの1964年超名盤ライヴ・アルバム『Sam Cooke At The Copa』の55周年を記念した、33年ぶりの復刻LPが発売!

1964年7月8日にニューヨークのクラブ Copacabana で録音された1964年発表の珠玉のライヴ・アルバムの最新リマスターLP。1987年以来33年ぶりのLP復刻。「Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out」「Frankie and Johnny」「Try A Little Tenderness」「Twistin' The Night Away」「You Send Me」「 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons」などなど、ソウルはもちろんのことミュージカル・ソング、ブルース、フォーク、ジャズ、ゴスペル、カントリーといった多様なスタイルの楽曲を歌いこなすサム・クックの魅力が全編に詰まった名盤中の名盤。本公演でカヴァーしたBob Dylanの「Blowin' In The Wind」にインスパイアを受けて、クックが後にあの名曲「A Change Is Gonna Come」を作曲したことはつとに有名。Joe Yanneceによるリマスター。Trutone MasteringのCarl Rowattiによるラッカー・カッティング。プレスは米Quality Record Pressings。

180g重量盤ブラック・ヴァイナル

Sam Cooke at the Copa was a frustrating record. One of a handful of live albums by a major soul artist of its era, it captured Cooke in excellent voice, and was well-recorded -- it just wasn't really a "soul" album, except perhaps in the tamest possible definition of that term. Playing to an upscale, largely white supper-club audience, in a very conservatively run venue where he had previously failed to impress either patrons or the management, Cooke toned down his performance and chose the safest material with which he could still be comfortable. In place of songs like "Feel It," "Bring It on Home to Me," or even "Cupid," which were part of his usual set, he performed numbers like "The Best Things in Life Are Free," "Bill Bailey," and "When I Fall in Love" here. True, his renditions may be the versions of any of those songs that an R&B fan will like best, but they always seemed a poor substitute for what's not here -- not just the songs that he didn't do, but the intense, sweaty presentation, as much a sermon as a concert, the pounding beat, and the crowd being driven into ever-more frenzied delight. ~ Bruce Eder