“Just read the chapter on the amazing Sam Cooke in "Sweet Soul Music," by P. Guralnick. There are great versions by Otis and Al Green and Aretha of this, and I wish the arrangement here didn't lean so heavily on strings, but ... damn, what a voice and what a shame that he died so stupidly, "in a 3-dollar hotel driving a $14,000 car..."”
Just read the chapter on the amazing Sam Cooke in "Sweet Soul Music," by P. Guralnick. There are great versions by Otis and Al Green and Aretha of this, and I wish the arrangement here didn't lean so heavily on strings, but ... damn, what a voice and what a shame that he died so stupidly, "in a 3-dollar hotel driving a $14,000 car..."