Steve Cropper - With a Little Help From My Friends

1992 European CD reissue.

After years of being a team player, Steve Cropper got to make a solo album for the label he helped put on the map, Stax Records (actually their Volt subsidiary). As you might figure, it turned out as an instrumental soul album, and a darn good one, too. It's a bona fide Telecaster-soaked dance workout, with Cropper turning in signature versions of "Land of a Thousand Dances," "99 1/2," (which features a particularly nasty period fuzz guitar), "Funky Broadway," "Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway," "In the Midnight Hour," and original instrumentals like "Crop Dustin'" and the closer "Rattlesnake." A solid and soulful little side project that holds up quite well years later.

AllMusicGuide

Crop Dustin'
Land of 1000 Dances
99 1/2
Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway
Funky Broadway
With a Little Help from My Friends
Oh, Pretty Woman
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
The Way I Feel Tonight
In the Midnight Hour
Rattlesnake