Clearly Sam Cooke’s most intimate, most soulful and ultimately most realized recordings, Night Beat has the feel of a private performance captured after hours when the audience had gone home and the singer was singing purely for the love and soul of his songs. From spiritual tracks to bluesy ballads to gospel classics, Cooke makes each cut his own here which in turn makes for a warm collection that’s easy to connect with. Analogue Productions presents the album on 180g 45rpm vinyl 2LP mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original three-track masters.
Tracklist
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
- Lost and Lookin’
- Mean Old World
- Please Don’t Drive Me Away
- I Lost Everything
- Get Yourself a Another Fool
- Little Red Rooster
- Laughin’ and Clownin’
- Trouble Blues
- You Gotta Move
- Fool’s Paradise
- Shake Rattle and Roll
