{"id":3559,"date":"2013-02-10T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2013-04-14T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:50:26","slug":"amanda-ambrose-gimme-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Ambrose – Gimme Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Amanda Ambrose – Gimme Shelter<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to another week in the land of vinyl.<\/p>\n

I drop those three genres because they all have a hand in the tune I bring you today.<\/p>\n

Anyone fairly deep (or maybe not so deep) into the soul\/funk record collecting \u2018thing\u2019 will have crossed paths with singers who (like Amanda Ambrose<\/strong>) made their bread and butter in the world of jazz, but crossed over (for whatever reason) into a grittier sound.<\/p>\n

Here at Funky16Corners<\/strong> I\u2019ve featured music by artists like Nina Simone, Irene Reid, Gloria Lynne,<\/strong> and others who felt the need \u2013 whether artistically, commercially or both \u2013 at some point in their career to step outside of the world of jazz (or bring it with them into another context).<\/p>\n

More often than not \u2013 as long as the material and delivery were on point \u2013 the results ended up being quite groovy.<\/p>\n

This is not suggest that singing jazz and soul are interchangeable disciplines (they are not) but rather that one would expect a jazz singer to at the very least bring a level of technical facility to the table.<\/p>\n

Whether or not they were able to deliver the goods once they got there was another question entirely.<\/p>\n

Someone like Nina Simone \u2013 though often thought of as a jazz singer \u2013 spent her entire career moving fluidly between genres.<\/p>\n

Others \u2013 like Amanda Ambrose \u2013 had common gospel roots with most soul singers of the classic era, and that tied things together on another level.<\/p>\n

Born in St Louis in 1925, Ambrose spent the early part of her career recording jazz for small labels (though she did an album for Dunwich in the mid-60s).<\/p>\n

Her storming take on the Rolling Stones<\/strong> \u2018Gimme Shelter\u2019 was recorded for Bee Gee records in 1973.<\/p>\n

I know little about the label, other than that it seemed to specialize in funk and soul.<\/p>\n

Where Merry Clayton\u2019s<\/strong> better known cover of the song remains in the stylistic orbit of the original, Ambrose\u2019s take on the tune has the feel of a Leon Russell<\/strong> session, with a pounding rhythm section (especially the piano) and powerful horns.<\/p>\n

Ambrose\u2019s vocals are equally powerful and it\u2019s a shame that this record didn\u2019t catch on with a wider audience, though by 1973 this sound was on its way out.<\/p>\n

She passed away in 2007 at the age of 82.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track and I\u2019ll see you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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