{"id":21750,"date":"2013-03-30T19:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=21750"},"modified":"2013-03-30T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:28:42","slug":"the-impossible-groove-of-dusty-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2013\/03\/30\/the-impossible-groove-of-dusty-springfield\/","title":{"rendered":"The Groove of Dusty Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Springfield and the back up band that created <i>Dusty in Memphis<!--more--><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Vince Meserko<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21751\" alt=\"Unknown\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown-125x125.jpeg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time lately listening to Dusty Springfield&#8217;s <em>Dusty in Memphis<\/em> and marveling not only at Dusty&#8217;s smoky vocals, but at the band that backs her up on this famous recording. It&#8217;s a real shame that so many of the musicians of Motown, Stax, and Muscle Shoals\u00a0have fizzled into obscurity, routinely\u00a0out shined\u00a0by\u00a0the performers they so\u00a0adeptly backed up.<\/p>\n<p>The particular group backing Springfield up on this recording are called the\u00a0Memphis Cats. They were comprised of guitarist Reggie Young, bassist Tommy Cogbill,\u00a0the Sweet\u00a0Inspirations on backing vocals, and the\u00a0masterful drumming of Gene Chrisman. In short, it is impossible to groove any harder than this band does on this recording. Reggie Young&#8217;s riff at the\u00a0beginning of &#8220;Son of a Preacher Man&#8221; remains iconic, but it is Cogbill&#8217;s dancing bass and Chrisman&#8217;s propulsive syncopated ride cymbal that\u00a0push this song over the edge. Cogbill&#8217;s dextrous playing is in its finest form on &#8220;I Found My Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the chorus, Cogbilll&#8217;s bass carries the melody as his thick playing bubbles and\u00a0cascades all over the beat. Chrisman&#8217;s\u00a0open hi-hats add another level of complexity to the beat, and his fills provide just\u00a0enough tight restraint to keep the entire thing\u00a0from getting too carried away. Other standouts include &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Faithful&#8221; which features a searing lead from Young that is so melodic that Springfield actually sings along to it. Additionally,\u00a0the complementing thud of Chrisman&#8217;s bass drum and Cogbill&#8217;s\u00a0strutting bass provide the funky\u00a0ground cover\u00a0for Young&#8217;s jagged riffs.\u00a0While the album&#8217;s overblown\u00a0string arrangement occasionally get in the way, this recording is an object lesson in groove, that intangible quality that pushes a merely good recording towards legendary status.\u00a0Go listen to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Jookhous airs every Saturday from 6-8 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield and the back up band that created Dusty in Memphis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":21751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1893,1462,943,1894,944],"class_list":["post-21750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dusty-in-memphis","tag-dusty-springfield","tag-jookhouse-2","tag-memphis-cats","tag-vince-meserko"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Unknown.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}