Eddie Hinton - Very Extremely Dangerous, etc.

Know next to nothing about this guy, but apparently he was a major Muscle Shoals session guitarist - had a really hard life it seems. I grabbed Very Extremely Dangerous at the thrift store a few years ago and it grows on me with each listen - the bloozy quality kind of weighs down a few songs, but when he's joyful, it's really wonderful - especially the first few tracks and the cover of "Shout Bamalama." The whistling on "Concept World" alone is worth the price of admission. Anybody else have anything to share about this very extremely overlooked musician?

Fritz Wollner (Fritz) wrote this on thread "what in the name of all that is holy do people mean by "blue-eyed soul"!? on board I Love Music on Nov 23, 2002

mitch ryder & the detroit wheels & tony joe white i like, eddie hinton is hit & miss... joe south is good too

Ha, I know nothing about him myself except that the archives tell me Martin Skidmore is a huge fan and edd hurt thinks he sounds too much like Otis Redding. He is also mentioned on the Jim Ford thread. I never really quite figured out who he was until today, since he is not part of the Big Four that founded Muscle Shoals.

I guess that makes him the Mike Terry of Muscle Shoals.

I know I had one of those '80s albums of his but I can't find it right now. Maybe I had it on cassette. I know I liked it although it did not quite live up to the Guralnick hype.

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Eddie Hinton played in THE 5 MENITS from 1965 until 1967. He then played lead guitar from 1967 to 1971 in the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section, also known as THE SWAMPERS.

Eddie played lead guitar on songs recorded by artists ranging from ELVIS PRESLEY, to THE STAPLES SINGERS and ARETHA FRANKLIN. He also wrote songs recorded by many artists including Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, Cher, & The Box Tops.

In his book, Sweet Soul Music, Peter Guralnick, described Eddie Hinton as "the last of the great white soul singers." Music critic Mark Deming said, "like Wilson Pickett, Eddie Hinton, is able to bring a surprising musicality to a shouting style that can express the pleasures of a hard-partying Saturday night as well as the tender agony of love." Eddie died nearly ten years ago but he still has many fans all over the USA and in Europe.

Mentioned on this thread toohttp://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=31964

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Got Letters from Mississippi years ago, pretty much on spec and because he looked cool on the cover and loved it - it's later demos done in NY and Muscle Shoals and there's at least one more collection of the stuff from the same era. Last year i bought VED off the 'bay for real money and it's good but not -so far - as good as Guralnick says.

I've only been recently introduced to him and have Very Extremely Dangerous and a collection of Muscle-Shoals ere recordings and demos called Dear Y'all. "Hit and miss" might probably be right, but when he's on he's on and I love both of these albums dearly.