Delbert McClinton - 'The Jealous Kind' (1980) + 'Plain' From The Heart' (1981)
2 LP in 1 CD, Remastered Reissue 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 490 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Scans ~ 59 Mb | 01:16:36
Blues-Rock, Roots Rock, Country-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, R&B | Label: Raven | # RVCD-114
2 LP in 1 CD, Remastered Reissue 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 490 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Scans ~ 59 Mb | 01:16:36
Blues-Rock, Roots Rock, Country-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, R&B | Label: Raven | # RVCD-114
This two-fer from the Australian Raven label is a part of a series of Delbert McClinton reissues. All of them come with new liner notes, session photos, and bonus tracks. These two albums, from 1980 and 1981, respectively, represent a renaissance for McClinton of sorts. While he never had a fallow period creatively, The Jealous Kind allowed him a renewed commercial viability even if it was short-lived. Both records were issued by the Muscle Shoals Sound imprint of Capitol Records and were produced by Barry Beckett with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and horns. While the first disc is centered around diversity in its song choices – by everyone from Larry Henley to Bobby Charles to Van Morrison to Al Green to Jerry Williams – and took radical approaches to reinterpreting the material through soul, blues, funk, rock, and country, the latter chose hard-driving Southern-fried funk and R&B and a relatively close-to-the-vest approach in terms of material – most notably covers of "In the Midnight Hour" and Naomi Neville's "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)".