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Title: Nine Pound Steel - The Best Of Joe Simon
Artist: Joe Simon
Label: Sunset BLVD Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708535701521
Genre: Soul/R & B
Release Date: 2022-03-25
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: DIGIPACK PACKAGING

Nine Pound Steel - The Best Of Joe Simon 3 CDs/ 61 Tracks: Call Joe Simon the reluctant soul star. Despite his mountain of hits during the 1960s and '70s, his heart just wasn't into his work, aural evidence obviously to the contrary. You'd never know it from listening to the contents of this collection, culled from his fabulous hit-loaded 1966-1970 stint with Producer Richbourg at the helm for Sound Stage 7 Records. His conviction sounds unshakable. Maybe that's a large part of the reason why Simon scored 16 R&B chart entries during that timeframe for SS7, including a #1 seller. "I never wanted to sing rhythm and blues," said Simon, who until his untimely death in December 2021, was a bishop and leader of his own ministries in south suburban Chicago. "My heart was never in it, but yet I could sing rhythm and blues. John Richbourg was my producer. And he used to ask me, how could I sing these songs so great and never knew 'em? But I never had an interest to go in the studio and know a song. I just said, 'Man, I just sing 'em!' Sunset Blvd Records is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of Joe Simon's extraordinary work with Nashville Soul Label Sound stage 7.

Tracks:
1.1 Too Many Teardrops
1.2 Travelin' Man
1.3 Nobody But You
1.4 My Special Prayer
1.5 What Makes a Man Feel Good
1.6 That's All I Want (From You)
1.7 Teenager's Prayer
1.8 The Girl's Alright with Me
1.9 Long Hot Summer
1.10 When a Man Loves a Woman
1.11 Miss You So
1.12 Too Many Rivers
1.13 (You Keep Me) Hangin' on
1.14 No Sad Songs
1.15 I Worry About You
1.16 Nine Pound Steel
1.17 Put Your Trust in Me (Depend on Me)
1.18 In the Same Old Way
1.19 Can't Find No Happiness
1.20 Come on and Get It
2.1 Misty Blue
2.2 It's Too Late
2.3 Standing in the Safety Zone
2.4 In Reach of Your Arms
2.5 I'm Going Home
2.6 Twinkle
2.7 Dreamin'
2.8 Looking Back
2.9 Funny How Time Slips Away
2.10 She Went a Little Bit Farther
2.11 Baby, Don't Be Looking in My Mind
2.12 (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay
2.13 Little Green Apples
2.14 Lonely Man
2.15 The Chokin' Kind
2.16 Yours Love
2.17 Help Yourself (To All My Lovin')
2.18 Wichita Lineman
2.19 Don't Let Me Lose the Feeling
2.20 I'm Too Far Gone to Turn Around
2.21 In the Still of the Night (I'll Remember)
3.1 Silver Spoons and Coffee Cups
3.2 It's Hard to Get Along
3.3 In the Ghetto
3.4 I Got a Whole Lot of Lovin'
3.5 Wounded Man
3.6 Time and Space
3.7 Straight Down to Heaven
3.8 When
3.9 After the Lights Go Down Low
3.10 San Francisco Is a Lonely Town
3.11 Rainbow Road
3.12 Just a Dream
3.13 Moon Walk Part L
3.14 Moon Walk Part LL
3.15 Farther on Down the Road
3.16 That's the Way I Want Our Love
3.17 Who's Julie
3.18 Someone to Lean on
3.19 Today I Started Loving You Again
3.20 Oon-Guela (High Life) Part L