Kent (U.K.)
2002
You Got My Mind Messed Up
About This Album
This CD reissue of Carr's first album, 1967's You Got My Mind Messed Up, doubles the length of that LP with no less than 12 bonus tracks, all of them rare and unreleased. You Got My Mind Messed Up is a fine '60s Memphis soul album, even if, in the manner of many LPs of the time, it's largely built around previously released singles. Indeed, ten of the 12 songs drawn from the original You Got My Mind Messed Up LP also show up on Carr's Ace compilation The Complete Goldwax Singles, though there is a difference in that eight of those ten songs are presented on this CD in new stereo mixes, where The Complete Goldwax Singles used the original mono masters. (If you're keeping a scorecard on such matters, the only songs on the You Got My Mind Messed Up reissue not to benefit from new stereo mixes are "Coming Back to Me Baby," "She's Better Than You," and the LP-only cut "I Don't Want to Be Hurt Anymore.") "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man," "Coming Back to Me Baby," "You Got My Mind Messed Up," and naturally "The Dark End of the Street" are the hits that will be the most familiar items on the disc, though the other songs taken from the original LP are pretty sturdy Southern deep soul as well and varied to include other kinds of material than the tortured ballads for which Carr's most known.
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