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Down at Muscle Shoals

Name: Down at Muscle Shoals
Brand: Irma Thomas
SKU: itdown-exclusives
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Irma Thomas

Recorded in New Orleans at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals in 1967, but not released until 1984, Down at Muscle Shoals is here on Blue-on-Blue vinyl.

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Exclusive Features

color	Opaque Frosted Blue
foil stamped	Yes
mastering engineer	Carl Saff
mastering studio	Saff Mastering
numbered	Yes
remastering details	Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

Other Features

exclusive	VMP Exclusive
extras	OBI Strip, Lyric Insert
jacket style	Tip-On
jacket type	Single
label	Chess
pressing location	Independent Record Pressing (IRP)
release type	Reissue

By the Numbers

1LP

format

1984

original release year

33¹/₃

rpm

speed

2000

total pressing quantity

inch

vinyl size

180

gram

weight

Description

The First Lady of New Orleans Soul, Irma Thomas' career had many stops and starts; she never caught on with a big label, and bounced between smaller concerns, being most famous for how deft of a live performer she was than her studio output, a superstar in Louisiana, but a curio outside it.

In 1967, after moderately successful albums with the local Imperial, she went north from New Orleans to record at the FAME studios in Muscle Shoals where Aretha Franklin became a star at the behest of Chess Records, who aimed to turn her into the next Etta James. For reasons that are not clear, Chess released a couple singles from the FAME sessions, but never actually put all the songs Thomas recorded there in LP form. It would take until a Japanese release in 1984 for these songs to see full release; it is today, in 2021, as much as it was in 1984, a drop-down soul classic, an impactful, fantastic album that is a giant what-if? Thomas might have gotten her flowers much sooner if this had come out back then. You can fix that now.

Tracklist

LP 1 / Side A

We Got Something Good

Good To Me

Here I Am‚ Take Me

Security

Let's Do It Over

Somewhere Crying

LP 1 / Side B

A Woman Will Do Wrong

Yours Until Tomorrow

I Gave You Everything

I've Been Loving You Too Long

Don't Make Me Stop Now

Cheater Man

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