ETTA JAMES: "At Last" + "The 2nd Time Around"

ETTA JAMES '62

Original released on LP Argo LPS 4013

(US 1962, May 5)

Original released on LP Argo LPS 4018

(US 1962, December 9)

ETTA JAMES - "Tell Mama"

Original released on LP Cadet LPS 802

(US, January 1968)

Leonard Chess dispatched Etta James to Muscle Shoals in 1967, and the move paid off with one of her best and most soul-searing Cadet albums. Produced by Rick Hall, the resultant album boasted a relentlessly driving title cut, the moving soul ballad "I'd Rather Go Blind," and sizzling covers of Otis Redding's "Security" and Jimmy Hughes' "Don't Lose Your Good Thing," and a pair of fine Don Covay copyrights. The skin-tight session aces at Fame Studios really did themselves proud behind Miss Peaches.