Description: Be sure to add me to your favorites list! Encouraging Words was about as fine an album as Apple Records ever issued by anyone who wasn't a member of the Beatles, and it's also better than many of the Apple albums issued by the ex-bandmembers; but it's also among the most obscure of any album that the label ever issued by a major artist -- without a hit single to drive its sales, the LP never did more than brush the very bottom of the charts, and it was quickly lost amid the financial collapse of the label and the implosion of the Beatles' business ventures; even many Billy Preston fans never had a chance to find out it was there, obscured as it was by his subsequent chart success with "Outta Space" on the A&M label. A bold and searing effort mixing gospel, soul, and rock sounds about as well as any record cut that year, Encouraging Words lived up its killer musical pedigree, partly an offshoot of the evolution of the Let It Be and All Things Must Pass albums, and of sessions that Preston and George Harrison had produced for Doris Troy; but it also picked up where Preston's playing for Ray Charles had left off in 1968. The surging, soaring blues "The Same Thing Again," and the driving rocker "You've Been Acting Strange," both Preston originals, were worth the price of the album, but for those requiring familiar fare, Preston's renditions of "My Sweet Lord," "All Things (Must) Pass," and "I've Got a Feeling" are here too, the first two as stunning gospel numbers (the second with some gorgeous jazz and classical embellishments) that make the Harrison versions seem pallid; and the latter a delightfully funky rendition that makes the Beatles' recording sound like a classy demo; and for truly, delightfully strange sound amalgams, "Sing One for the Lord" manages to couple soaring gospel with some loud lead guitar and a piano part derived from Tchaikovsky. LISTEN “Right Now” 1970 LP Released on Apple Records # ST-3370 (Stereo). · This Sealed Album will Provide you with the Best Possible Sound Quality from your Player. Punched promo hole by upper right corner. For Records Galore - Please View My Store
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Speed: 33 RPM
Format: Record
Type: LP
Record Label: Apple Records
Color: Black
Edition: First Pressing
Genre: Rock, R&B & Soul, Funk
Era: 1970s
Artist: Billy Preston
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Style: 1970s
Material: Vinyl
Record Size: 12"
Features: Sealed
Release Title: Encouraging Words
Release Year: 1970
Number of Audio Channels: Stereo