Various Soul Stirrings - ACE Recordings 1957-62 (CD)

(WESTSIDE) 28 tracks

Soul Stirrings brings together 28 recordings by Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Benny Spellman and Chuck Carbo, focusing on their Ace recordings from 1957 to 1962. Originally issued by Westside in 1999, the compilation offers a valuable look at the early rhythm & blues recordings that preceded and accompanied the development of Southern soul. Joe Tex is represented by tracks including Cut It Out, Just For You And Me, Put Your Confidence In Me, You Little Baby Face Thing, Mother’s Advice, Charlie Brown Got Expelled, Blessed Are These Tears and Yum Yum. Benny Spellman contributes Roll On, That’s All I Ask Of You and Everybody Needs Somebody, while Chuck Carbo and Lee Dorsey complete the four-artist line-up. For collectors of early soul, New Orleans R&B and Ace-related recordings, Soul Stirrings is a particularly worthwhile compilation.