Lee Dorsey

Wheelin' And Dealin'

The Definitive Collection

(1997)

 

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Lee Dorsey - 1966 - Working In The Coal Mine - Holy Cow

Lee Dorsey - 1966 - Working In The Coal Mine - Holy Cow @320

Less than a year had passed between this and Lee Dorsey's previous LP, Ride Your Pony, and Allen Toussaint was again the prime creative force, writing material and co-producing. The sound, however, had definitely taken a step in a funkier direction. It's still lighthearted, though not lightweight, soul music with a New Orleans bounce, paced by the Top Ten hit "Working in a Coal Mine" and also including the Top 30 follow-up "Holy Cow." Other than those hit singles, the songs, though not exactly throwaways, aren't up to the same level. (AllMusic)

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Lee Dorsey - 1966 -Ride Your Pony - Get Out Of My Life Woman

Lee Dorsey - 1966 -Ride Your Pony - Get Out Of My Life Woman @ 320

 

Aside from the title track and the oft-covered, ultrafunky "Get Out of My Life, Woman," none of the 12 songs on this early 1966 album are familiar to most listeners. As it turns out, it's a quality full-length bridging early-'60s New Orleans R&B with soul, even if the songs tend to be on the light partying side. That's part of the main draw of much New Orleans music, of course, and few were better at projecting a relaxed sense of fun than Lee Dorsey. It helped that all but two of the songs were written by co-producer Allen Toussaint; the Crescent City giant doesn't get nearly as much attention as Smokey Robinson, but as with Smokey, one wonders if Toussaint ever slept in the 1960s, so prolific and generally fine was his output. (AllMusic}

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