Artist..........: Charles Wilson
Album...........: Troubled Child
Genre...........: R&B
Label...........: Severn Records Inc.
Catnr...........: SEVERN0048
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 09-03-2010
Street.Date.....: 19-05-2009
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Child-Charles-Wilson/dp/B001UXJH4Q
Size............: 56.97MB
Song.Title :
01. Where My Baby Went 3:50
02. Someone Must Have Taught You 4:47
03. It's Love That Really Counts 4:39
04. I Want To Shout About It 3:07
05. Somebody's Tears 3:52
06. Troubled Child 4:44
07. Is This Love 4:56
08. I Don't Want To Take A Chance 3:56
09. The Good Side Of My Girl 3:49
10. Put Something Into It 3:45
Runtime: 41:25 min
Release.Info :
The Severn label is a blues dominated organization also recognizing the turn the
form took into R&B (rhythm and blues), and thus it casts about for the best
examples of the substratum. Charles Wilson is the late Little Milton's nephew
and has inherited more than chip off the family block. His sound derives from an
era which saw the greats (Temptations, Chambers Bros., Four Tops, etc.), and
those times were not lost on him. Mike Welch, his guitarist, injects a good deal
of the Steve Cropper vibe, and Willie Henderson Jr.'s orchestral arrangements
are reminiscent of the bygone days of Quincy Jones, Billy Paul, and other
estimables.
Charles is a big guy, but his voice is far from ponderous, instead agile and
light, further airborn by a trio of backing vocalists. Benjie Porecki's Hammond
dances all around him on I Want to Shout About It and elsewhere, keeping things
spirited as Wilson belts out an ode to his love. Somebody's Tears, a Denise
Lasalle song here dedicated to Little Milton, digs much more deeply into the
blues and is one of my favorites, but Wilson's version of Bob Marley's Is This
Love is likewise dipped in the tradition, this time by way of the folk infusions
Taj Mahal undertook. The longest cut of the disc, it does a bit of exploring,
allowing the composition to breathe in the way Marley intended. Put Something
into It closes the CD and carries a funky kick, a Harlem swing getting closer to
the bone than the Texas refrains, Welch punching in some Memphis to flank
Porecki's airy jitterbugging keys. By the time the last notes fade out, you know
you've just taken a strong side trip down Memory Lane with a driver who knows
the savvy side streets.
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