Sweet Sweetheart (Remastered 2025) Carla Thomas

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Album-Release:
1970

HRA-Release:
04.04.2025

Label: Craft Recordings

Genre: R&B

Subgenre: Soul

Artist: Carla Thomas

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1 Country Road (Remastered 2025) 02:48
2 I Loved You Like I Love My Very Life (Remastered 2025) 02:53
3 I'm Gettin' Closer To You (Remastered 2025) 01:59
4 To Love Somebody (Remastered 2025) 03:10
5 Hi De Ho (That Old Sweet Roll) (Remastered 2025) 02:34
6 Heaven Help The Non-Believer (Remastered 2025) 02:08
7 Heavy Load (Remastered 2025) 03:52
8 Sweet Sweetheart (Remastered 2025) 02:56
9 I Think I Love You Again (Remastered 2025) 03:04
10 Everything Is Beautiful (Remastered 2025) 04:32
11 I'm Gettin' Closer To You (Version 2 / Remastered 2025) 02:10
Total Runtime 32:06

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As Stax Records’ most hit-making woman, Carla Thomas was also referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. Her 1970 American Sound Studio recording session, produced by country music’s Chips Moman (famous for his work with Elvis), is significant for fusing her soul roots with just enough country, to great effect. This also happens to be Sweet Sweetheart’s vinyl debut, 55 years after it was recorded.

On this album, which wasn’t released in any form until its CD release in 2013, Thomas transforms many tracks from other popular songwriters of the time—James Taylor, Bee Gees, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, and more—into a wholly unique sound. The album’s first single “Hi De Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)” is a slowed-down King/Goffin track, its pop veneer mingled with warm, soulful vocals. James Taylor’s earthy “Country Road” becomes a beat-driven celebration of freedom. And the Bee Gee’s “To Love Somebody” is a lingering, intimate testament to heartbreak.

Carla Thomas

Digitally remastered

Please Note: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 96 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 192 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

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Carla Thomas

Sweet Sweetheart (Remastered 2025)

Carla Thomas

Carla Thomas
Born in 1942 in Memphis as a daughter of Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas was at Stax from the beginning to the end and gained the surname of "Memphis Queen". After a first hit duet with Rufus (Cause i Love You) in a Satellite studio where the paint was still wet, she was borrowed by Atlantic for several years before joining the actual Stax label.

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