A Man Needs a Woman

by James Carr

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Goldwax
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:22
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The critically revered second album by the deep soul master showcases his remarkably intense, emotionally devastating vocal delivery. Hampered tragically by his deteriorating mental health, the sessions nonetheless produced some of the most enduring, agonizingly beautiful ballads of the Southern soul era.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, vocal, ballad, belting, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. A Man Needs a Woman (2:49)
  2. Stronger Than Love (2:31)
  3. More Love (2:42)
  4. You Didn't Know It but You Had Me (2:00)
  5. A Woman Is a Man's Best Friend (3:33)
  6. I'm a Fool for You (2:00)
  7. Life Turned Her That Way (2:38)
  8. Gonna Send You Back to Georgia (2:17)
  9. The Dark End of the Street (2:34)
  10. I Sowed Love and Reaped a Heartache (2:27)
  11. You've Got My Mind Messed Up (2:27)
  12. A Losing Game (2:01)
  13. A Message to Young Lovers (2:44)
  14. Let It Happen (2:38)
  15. You Gotta Have Soul (1:49)
  16. You Hurt Me so Good (2:00)
  17. I Can't Turn You Loose (2:08)
  18. Let's Face Facts (2:26)
  19. Who's Been Warming My Oven? (3:19)
  20. Please Your Woman (3:43)
  21. Your Love Made a U-Turn (2:15)
  22. The Lifetime of a Man (2:26)
  23. Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong (2:46)
  24. Ring of Fire (2:57)

Credits

  • James Carr - primary artist
  • Obie McClinton - written-by
  • Clarence Shields - written-by
  • Wayne Carson Thompson - written-by
  • Dan Greer - written-by
  • Earl Cage, Jr. - written-by
  • George Jackson - written-by
  • Harlan Howard - written-by

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