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[MBlues]

I've been wanting to get this particular Eddie Floyd compilation for a few days now, because I don't have any of his stuff other than the "Knock On Wood" album, and I went to Concord Music Group's official site, and I was reading the description of the product, and it said:

Eddie Floyd – Stax Profiles (Selected by Dan Aykroyd)
Actor-comedian Dan Aykroyd has been an Eddie Floyd fan since the Sixties and years later had the pleasure of performing with the great Alabama-born soul singer in the Elwood Blues Revue and in the motion picture Blues Brothers 2000. As a salute to his friend, Aykroyd has selected 13 of his favorite Floyd recordings made for Stax Records between 1966 and ’74. They include several of the singer’s biggest hits -- “Knock on Wood,” “I’ll Never Find a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do),” “California Girl” – along with a number of lesser-known gems. Among these are the haunting, hard-rocking “Big Bird,” inspired by Floyd’s aborted flight to Otis Redding’s funeral due to an airplane engine malfunction, and “634-5789,” originally written by Floyd (with Steve Cropper) for his old buddy from the Falcons, Wilson Pickett. The cast of players includes Booker T. & the MGs, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Con Funk Shun, and the Memphis Horns.

If Dan put it together, then I wanna get this more than I did now!

Source:http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/STXCD-8616-2/

[Blueblood]

MBlues said:

If Dan put it together, then I wanna get this more than I did now!

Agreed! It's gotta be good!