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The Isleys threw off the fancy duds and embraced Bill Withers' acoustic soul-rock sound on this 1971 stunner. The opening medley of Neil Young's "Ohio" and Hendrix's "Machine Gun" links lyrical outrage with musical grandeur, while their 10-minute reading of Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" is an unparalleled romantic epic. And they make it all funky. Genius.
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Track List 1 Track List 2
Givin' It Back (1971)
1. Ohio - Machine Gun
2. Fire And Rain
3. Lay Lady Lay
4. Spill The Wine
5. Nothing To Do But Today
6. Cold Bologna
7. Love The One You're With
1997 Epic Associated/Legacy Originally Released Remastered CD Released July 8, 1997 AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Givin' It Back is as much a time capsule as an album. Not that it can't be enjoyed on its own absolute musical terms by someone just off a boat who wasn't even around in, but to really appreciate how daring it was and how delightful it is, that side of its history should be known. Those who are old enough should recall the time whence it came, an era in which hatred and disunity over the Vietnam War , civil rights, school desegregation, the environment, and a mult itude of other issues were threatening what seemed, potentially, like the beginning of a new civil war, this one not between state s but between factions and ethnic and racial groups in 1,000 indi vidual neighborhoods. The opening cut of Givin' It Back, "Ohio/Ma chine Gun," is a slap-in-your-face reminder of just how angry the times and the people were. The track evokes instant memories of the campus bloodshed of 1970, not just at Kent State but also the often-forgotten killings a few days later at Jackson State Unive rsity in Mississippi, where the victims of a fusillade of sheriff 's deputies' bullets were black students. More than that, the tra ck itself is also a reminder of the divisions that existed on the left; to listen to pundits on the right, the anti-war and civil rights movements, along with the counterculture, were all part of one vast, organized, calculated left-wing conspiracy. The truth is that there was nearly as big a split, culturally and political ly, between young blacks and young whites on the left and on coll ege campuses as there was anywhere else in the population. Blacks reacting to years of oppression had little use for mostly middle -class white college students, however sympathetic many of them p urported to be to their situation, while well-meaning white stude nts and activists couldn't begin to know what privation of the ki nd experienced by blacks and Hispanics in most American towns and cities was. In music, too, there was a lot of division; blacks u sually didn't resonate to the top artists in the white world and, in particular, were oblivious to (and even resentful of) the ado ration accorded Jimi Hendrix by the white community. So, when the Isley Brothers -- whose appeal among black audiences was unimpea chable -- opened Givin' It Back with a conflation of Neil Young's "Ohio" and Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun," they were speaking to a nger and bloodshed in the streets, but they were also performing an act of outreach that was about as radical as any they could ha ve committed on record in That they incorporated a prayer i nto their reformulation of the two songs, amid Ernie Isley's and Chester Woodard's guitar pyrotechnics, turned it into one of the most powerful and personal musical statements of its era, and it' s worth the price of the album just for the one cut. Givin' It Ba ck is filled with virtues of that kind, however; it was the first Isley Brothers album to rely entirely on outside material, but t he group's reworkings of songs by James Taylor ("Fire and Rain") and Stephen Stills ("Love the One You're With") show no lack of o riginality. They're unafraid to take the song apart and rebuild i t from the ground up, smoothing Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" into a sensual soul ballad, turning the James Taylor number into a swea ty, earnest shouter, and transforming War's "Spill the Wine" into an extended workout for voices, electric guitars (several layers deep), flute, and percussion. The album was also an early showca se for Bill Withers, whose funky blues "Cold Bologna" is covered by the group with the composer -- who was about to emerge as a ma jor star in his own right -- on guitar. And the closer, "Love the One You're With," is sent soaring to heights that the Stephen St ills original could only gaze up at. Givin' It Back is often held at arm's length by soul listeners, who don't regard it as centra l to what the Isley Brothers or their music are about; on the con trary, the group is so successful at remaking all of the songs he re their own in style and approach and sending careful messages ( alas, largely lost with the passage of time) in their selection a s well as their content, that it really represents a lot of what the Isley Brothers and soul music were about in, and it's st ill great listening. Reissued in 1997 by Sony with new notes, and worth every cent of its list price. -- Bruce Eder Amazon.com Customer Review don't be fooled by picture, March 16, 2002 Rev iewer: D. Williams from MD, USA Not being able to listen to thi s cd before buying it, i was forced to judge a book by its cover. Just seeing an album cover photo of three bruthas holding acoust ic guitars made me incredibly curious as to what this cd was all about. A kind of MTV unplugged 20 years before MTV did it??? Unfo rtunately no. The only tune I would say is something special on t his album is the funkafied, Jackson 5 ABC-esque, version of 'Love the One You're With'. Otherwise, the other songs are nothing tha t unique (or acoustic for that matter). Amazon.com Customer R eview Between The Covers, February 19, 2000 Reviewer: Dean Mar tin Dent from San Leandro,Ca Luther Vandross' amazing cover of Stephen Stills' Love The One You're With(from the Songs album) wa s inspired by The Isley Brothers classic reinterpretation.Even be fore "Lutha" recorded a covers album,Giving It Back was the broth ers re-interpreting songs associated with rock musicians,and turn ing them into R&B classics.Their melding of CSNY's Ohio and forme r sideman Jimi Hendrix's Machine Gun is nothing short of amazing as well as their observation to the times.The sensuous treatment of Lay,Lady Lay is a far cry from Dylan's contrified original,and where Eric Burden spoke the words to Spill The Wine,Ronald Isley sings it in his signature tenor,transforming it into an altogeth er new song.He also nails the deep sadness that James Taylor's Fi re and Rain brings to listeners.If this album has any flaws,is th at it took too long to be reissued,thus nearly burying this creat ive phase of the Isley Brothers music.Where most would pick 3+3 o r The Heat Is On as classic studio recordings,Givin' It Back and Brother,Brother,Brother are just as essential. Half.com Album Notes Includes liner notes by Geoffrey Himes. All tracks hav e been digitally remastered. Vibe (08/01/1997) ...[THE ISLEY BROTHERS] express gut-wrenching anguish over the tragic killings at Kent State, even as they ask the Lord's forgiveness for the as sailants...
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