The Staple Singers

Be What You Are

1973 · Soul · Stax

US · STS-3015

Tracklist

Credits

Written by
Carl Hampton, Homer Banks, Raymond Jackson, Bettye Crutcher, Carl Smith, Darryl Carter, Sir Mack Rice, Bill Withers, Terry Manning
Cut by
Larry Nix
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Where it leads

Memphis Soul

Horn stabs, dragging backbeat, one take: the sound of a house band cutting hits in a converted cinema.

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.

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