Esther Phillips – Black-Eyed Blues

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Label:	Kudu – KU-14
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:	US
Released:	1973
Genre:	Funk / Soul, Blues
Style:	Rhythm & Blues, Soul

Tracklist

A1	Justified Written-By – Bill Withers	5:38
A2	I've Only Known A Stranger Written-By – Carolyn Plummer	3:30
A3	I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good Written-By – Duke Ellington, Paul Webster*	6:40
B1	Black-Eyed Blues Written-By – Chris Stainton, Joe Cocker	6:00
B2	Too Many Roads Written-By – Carolyn Franklin	4:35
B3	You Could Have Had Me, Baby Written-By – Leonard Feather	7:30

Companies, etc.

Produced For – KUDU Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Creed Taylor, Inc.
Published By – Interior Music Corp.
Published By – Caplum Music
Published By – Robbins Music Corp.
Published By – TRO-Andover Music, Inc.
Published By – Model Music Co.
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Jerry Dodgion, Pee Wee Ellis (tracks: B1)
Arranged By [Strings] – Bob James
Arranged By, Conductor [Conducted By] – Pee Wee Ellis
Backing Vocals [Vocal Background] – Carl Carldwell*, Joshie Armstead*, Lani Groves, Tasha Thomas
Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
Bass – Boz* (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3), Ron Carter (tracks: A3)
Cello – Alan Shulman, Anthony Sophos
Design [Album Design By] – Sibbie McDonough
Drums – Ian Wallace
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Charlie Brown (7)
Lacquer Cut By – Van Gelder*
Percussion – Arthur Jenkins (tracks: A1, B1)
Photography By [Album Photographs By] – Alen MacWeeney
Piano – Tim Hinkley
Producer [Produced By] – Creed Taylor
Trumpet – Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm
Viola – Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi
Violin – David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, Max Ellen

Notes

[Labels]
℗ 1973, Creed Taylor, Inc.
Interior Music Corp./BMI [tracks: A1]
Caplum Music/BMI [tracks: A2]
Robbins Music Corp./ASCAP [tracks: A3]
TRO-Andover Music, Inc./ASCAP [tracks: B1]
BMI [tracks: B2]
Model Music Co./ASCAP [tracks: B3]

[Back]
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios
Recorded July, 1973

[Spine]
℗ 1973 CREED TAYLOR, INC.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society (Tracks: A1, A2, B2): BMI
Rights Society (Tracks: A3, B1, B3): ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): (RVG 98774 A)
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): (RVG 98774 B)
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): RVG 98774 A
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): RVG 98774 B VAN GELDER
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 A-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 B-4 VAN GELDER
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 A-4 VAN GELDER
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 B-2 VAN GELDER
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 A-2• XT D3
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): RVG S̶Q̶ 98774 B-2 • T VAN GELDER X C3

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Black-Eyed Blues (LP, Album)	Kudu	KU 14	Canada	1973
New Submission	Black-Eyed Blues (LP, Album)	Kudu	SR-3352	Japan	1973
New Submission	Black-Eyed Blues (LP, Album)	Kudu, Kudu	KU 14, KU-14	Canada	1973
New Submission	Black-Eyed Blues (LP, Album)	Kudu	KUL 11	UK	1974
New Submission	Black-Eyed Blues (LP, Album)	Kudu	KU-14	Netherlands	1975

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Reviews

bigmix Jul 4, 2022
This album is in my opinion an audiophile recording, mastered perfectly. Dynamics and instrument separation is superb. Check it out for yourself
switherton Feb 20, 2021
My copy of this pressing was purchased in Canada and has a redacted quad "SQ" identifier in the matrix.