01. You’re Gonna Make Me Cry
02. I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy
03. When You Took Your Love From Me
04. Gonna Forget About You
05. Everybody Knows (The River Song)
06. Don’t Let My Baby Ride
07. I Don’t Want To Sit Down
08. Born All Over
09. Ace Of Spades
10. Eight Men, Four Women
11. A Nickel And A Nail
12. Heartaches, Heartaches
13. Drowning On Dry Land
14. Monkey Dog
15. He’s My Son (Just The Same)
16. I’ve Been Searching
17. Motherless Child
18. I’m Going Home (To Live With God)

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Contains material recorded for the Duke-Peacock subsidiary, Back Beat, between 1964 and 1974. O.V. Wright is part of the Pantheon Of 1960s Soul, up there with Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding. He’s not as well known as them (at least in America) but his songs have been covered by Redding, The Rolling Stones, Robert Cray, and Ann Peebles. Like Burke and Franklin, his vocal style was heavily based in Southern gospel music, passionately balancing the sacred and the secular. Wright fervently implored, pleaded, and howled his tales of love lost, strayed, thwarted, or shattered. “A Nickel And A Nail” is one of the finest distillations of no-way-out desperation ever recorded. Wright affirms his love to the heavens by crying out the dramatically devotional “I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy”. The music is prime Memphis rhythm & blues: full of sharp, terse guitar, rich Hammond organ, and gospel-informed background vocals, tight and funky but never slick.