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Released: June 24, 1997
Originally Released: 1997
Label: Stax

Tracks:

1.I Can't Make It (All By Myself)
2.Till My Back Ain't Got No Bone
3.All For The Love Of A Woman
4.My Door Is Always Open
5.A Penny For Your Thoughts
6.You'll Want Diamonds
7.Winding, Winding Road
8.Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt
9.I Forgot To Be Your Lover
10.I'll Be Home
11.Western Union Man
12.My Whole World Is Falling Down
13.Everyday People
14.Johnny, I Love You
15.All God's Children Got Soul
16.Happy
17.By The Time I Get To Phoenix
18.Bring The Curtain Down
19.A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart)
20.Born Under A Bad Sign
21.I Got A Sure Thing

Product Description:

2 LPs on 1 CD: WOW... (1971)/BOUND TO HAPPEN (1969).

Includes liner notes by Lee Hildebrand.

Digitally remastered by Joe Tarntino (1997, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

WOW...:

Personnel: William Bell (vocals); Eddie Hinton, Jimmy Johnson, Terry Manning (guitar); Barry Beckett (keyboards); David Hood (bass); Roger Hawkins (drums); Kim Weston, Patrice Holloway, Jessie Smith, Mickey Stevenson, Booker T. Jones, The Nightingales (background vocals).

Producer: Al Bell

Principally recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Musle Shoals, Alabama in October 1970.

BOUND TO HAPPEN:

Personnel includes: William Bell (vocals); Michael Toles, Steve Cropper (guitar); The Memphis Horns (horns); James Alexander, Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).

Producer: Booker T. Jones.

Engineers: Ron Capone, Terry Manning, Bobby Manuel.

Principally recorded at Ardent Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee on January 9, 1969.

William Bell's WOW (1969) and BOUND TO HAPPEN (1971) couldn't sound more unalike. WOW is the Stax aesthetic writ large, whereas BOUND TO HAPPEN is more urbane and much less down-home in feel. Taken together, as presented here, the music is simply excellent all around.

As a rule, Bell is not as gritty as his mentor Otis Redding. Bell is primarily a gospel crooner, although he does get down and dirty, Redding style, on "A Smile Can't Hide (A Broken Heart)." Other highlights include "Happy," one of the Stax factory's occasional Motown emulations, a definitive version of Bell's classic "Born Under a Bad Sign," and the wrenchingly intense "My Whole World is Falling Down."