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Album: Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere, Nudge It Up a Notch, (Stax)
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Your support makes all the difference.Those educated in rhythm matters will know Cropper as the genius of economy who played guitar in Booker T’s MGs, and Cavaliere as the singer who fronted blue-eyed soul boys the Young Rascals.
‘Nudge’ sounds exactly how you’d expect it to: generic, soulful, Staxy R&B, nicely turned, eminently dated, thoroughly tasteful – but rather limited in its writing. Cropper’s Telecasting is as archetypal as a Palladian villa. You inhabit it and, somehow, it just feels right. Cavaliere is not Otis Redding, however.
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