Tell Mama
by Etta James
- Type: Album
- Released: January 1968
- Label: Cadet
- Country: United States
- Length: 29:39
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Traveling to the legendary Muscle Shoals studios, Etta James embraced a much grittier, heavier backing band to record a triumphant return to form. 'Tell Mama' is remarkably sensual and wildly energetic, matching beautifully rhythmic, fiercely passionate Southern soul with deeply sentimental, slightly bittersweet tales of romantic longing.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, soulful, bluesy, vocal, harmonies
Tracklist
- Tell Mama (2:24)
- I'd Rather Go Blind (2:36)
- Watch Dog (2:08)
- The Love Of My Man (2:42)
- I'm Gonna Take What He's Got (2:35)
- The Same Rope (2:41)
- Security (2:30)
- Steal Away (2:23)
- My Mother-In-Law (2:23)
- Don't Lose Your Good Thing (2:28)
- It Hurts Me So Much (2:37)
- Just A Little Bit (2:08)
Credits
- Etta James - primary artist
- Rick Hall & Staff - arranged by, producer
- David Hood - bass
- Jerry Griffith - design [album design]
- Roger Hawkins - drums
- Rick Hall - engineer [recording engineer], supervised by [album supervision], written-by
- Albert S. Lowe Jr. - guitar
- Jimmy Johnson - guitar
- Bill Utterback - illustration [cover illustration]
- Morry Roth - liner notes
- Barry Beckett - organ
- Carl Banks - organ
- George Davis - piano, written-by
- Marvell Thomas - piano
- Spooner Oldham - piano, organ, written-by
- Aaron Varnell - saxophone
- Charles Chalmers - saxophone, written-by
- Floyd Newman - saxophone
- James Mitchell - saxophone
- Gene Miller - trumpet
- Clarence Carter - written-by
- Billy Foster - written-by
- Ellington Jordan - written-by
- Don Covay - written-by
- Ed Townsend - written-by
- Leonard Caston - written-by
- Lloyd Webber - written-by
- Otis Redding - written-by
- Jimmy Hughes - written-by
- Lee Diamond - written-by
- Del Gordon - written-by