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Track List
01) Salvation Symphony
02) Introduction
03) Lift Every Voice and Sing
04) Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)
05) Are You Sure
06) I Like the Things About Me
07) Respect Yourself
08) I'll Take You There
09) Precious Lord, Take My Hand
10) Better Get a Move On
11) Them Hot Pants
12) Wade in the Water
13) I Forgot to Be Your Lover
14) Explain It to Her Mama
15) I've Been Lonely (For So Long)
16) Pin the Tail on the Donkey
17) Knock on Wood
Cd 2
01) Peace Be Still
02) Old Time Religion
03) Lying on the Truth
04) Up Above My Head
05) Son of Shaft/Feel It
06) In the Hole
07) I Can't Turn You Loose
08) Introduction
09) Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
10) Can't See You When I Want To
11) Reach Out (And Touch Somebody's Hand)
12) Niggas
13) Arrest/Lineup
14) So I Can Love You
15) Group Introduction/Show Me How
Cd 3
01) Open the Door to Your Heart
02) Backfield in Motion
03) Steal Away
04) Killing Floor
05) Pick Up the Pieces
06) I Like What You're Doing (To Me)
07) B.A.B.Y.
08) Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)
09) I Have a God Who Loves
10) The Breakdown
11) Do the Funky Chicken
12) Do the Funky Penguin
13) I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
14) Hearsay
15) Theme From 'Shaft'
01) Salvation Symphony
02) Introduction
03) Lift Every Voice and Sing
04) Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)
05) Are You Sure
06) I Like the Things About Me
07) Respect Yourself
08) I'll Take You There
09) Precious Lord, Take My Hand
10) Better Get a Move On
11) Them Hot Pants
12) Wade in the Water
13) I Forgot to Be Your Lover
14) Explain It to Her Mama
15) I've Been Lonely (For So Long)
16) Pin the Tail on the Donkey
17) Knock on Wood
Cd 2
01) Peace Be Still
02) Old Time Religion
03) Lying on the Truth
04) Up Above My Head
05) Son of Shaft/Feel It
06) In the Hole
07) I Can't Turn You Loose
08) Introduction
09) Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
10) Can't See You When I Want To
11) Reach Out (And Touch Somebody's Hand)
12) Niggas
13) Arrest/Lineup
14) So I Can Love You
15) Group Introduction/Show Me How
Cd 3
01) Open the Door to Your Heart
02) Backfield in Motion
03) Steal Away
04) Killing Floor
05) Pick Up the Pieces
06) I Like What You're Doing (To Me)
07) B.A.B.Y.
08) Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)
09) I Have a God Who Loves
10) The Breakdown
11) Do the Funky Chicken
12) Do the Funky Penguin
13) I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
14) Hearsay
15) Theme From 'Shaft'
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First Released
2003
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They called Wattstax the "black Woodstock," but there are many differences between that seminal hippie event and the 1972 concert documented in this 30th-anniversary special-edition reissue. Woodstock was all about peace, love, and music. Wattstax, held three years later in Los Angeles, had those elements as well; but as this 103-minute film reminds us, it was a more socio-politically charged event, with its emphasis on black pride and the simple opportunity for African Americans to assert that, in opening speaker Jesse Jackson's words, "I am somebody." There's also a good deal less music in this film than in the Woodstock movie. As the title suggests, a host of great Stax Records artists (including Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Bar-Kays, the Staple Singers, Albert King, and show closer Isaac Hayes) performed, but much of Wattstax doesn't even take place inside the L.A. Coliseum, where the concert was held, but rather in the churches and shops and on the streets of Watts itself (music fans would be better off checking out the Wattstax double CD). Wattstax, in fact, is much less a music movie than a chronicle of black life seven years after the Watts race riots, as well as what comedian Richard Pryor (who delivers several hilarious but scathing bits) calls "a soulful expression of the black experience." --Sam Graham
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They called Wattstax the "black Woodstock," but there are many differences between that seminal hippie event and the 1972 concert documented in this 30th-anniversary special-edition reissue. Woodstock was all about peace, love, and music. Wattstax, held three years later in Los Angeles, had those elements as well; but as this 103-minute film reminds us, it was a more socio-politically charged event, with its emphasis on black pride and the simple opportunity for African Americans to assert that, in opening speaker Jesse Jackson's words, "I am somebody." There's also a good deal less music in this film than in the Woodstock movie. As the title suggests, a host of great Stax Records artists (including Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Bar-Kays, the Staple Singers, Albert King, and show closer Isaac Hayes) performed, but much of Wattstax doesn't even take place inside the L.A. Coliseum, where the concert was held, but rather in the churches and shops and on the streets of Watts itself (music fans would be better off checking out the Wattstax double CD). Wattstax, in fact, is much less a music movie than a chronicle of black life seven years after the Watts race riots, as well as what comedian Richard Pryor (who delivers several hilarious but scathing bits) calls "a soulful expression of the black experience." --Sam Graham
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