Genre: soul
Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The Sounds of Joe Simon
Company: Spring
Catalog: SPR-4701
Year: 1971
Country/State: Simmesport, Louisiana
Grade (cover/record): VG/VG
Comments: minor edge wear
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4513
Price: $15.00
Cost: $66.00
Co-produced by John Richbourg and Joe Simon, 1971's "The Sounds of Simon" isn't a major musical surprise. If you like Simon's deep and rugged old school voice, then you'll enjoy the album's mixture of originals and covers. With the exception of the horn propelled 'I Love You More (Than Anything)' my problem with the set it that stretched over two sides the heavy emphasis on ballads and mid-tempo numbers starts to give the set a sound-alike feel. Witht You're left to wish that Simon would break it up a little and perhaps try a couple of funkier numbers. Solid, if not a real knock out ...
The album spun of several singles:
- 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' b/w 'Too Lady Down Beside You' (Spring catalog SPR-113)
- 'All My Hard Times' b/w 'Georgia Blue' (Spring catalog number SPR-118)
"The Sounds of Joe Simon" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) To Lay Down Beside You (Tim Drummond) - 3:15
2.) I Can't See Nobody (Robin Gibb - Barry Gibb) - 4:15
3.) Most of All (Buddie Buie - J.R. Cobb) - 2:40
4.) No More Me (Cecil Doty) - 2:29
5.) You're Time To Cry (Joe Simon - Raeford Gerald - Dock Price Jr.) - 2:57
(side 2)
1.) Help Me Make It Through the Night (Kris Kristofferson) - 2:40
2.) My Woman, My Woman, My Wife (Marty Robbins) - 4:34
3.) I Love You More (Than Anything) (Joe Simon - Raeford Gerald - Dock Price Jr.) - 2:05
4.) Georgia Blue (Larry Neal) - 2:52
5.) All My Hard Times (Joe South) - 2:38