Artist: The Rance Allen Group
Title: A Soulful Experience
Year: 1975
Label: Truth (Stax)
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 3.5/5.0
Review
Another powerful delivery by the Rance Allen Group. There are certain tracks on this LP that I like more than others by far, but overall it’s a nice album. Kirk Franklin has absolutely NOTHING on the Rance Allen Group, these guys fused youthful, soul-inspired music with gospel back in the 70′s. They were trying to reach people by creating gospel music that sounded like typical secular music of the time…but their message was primarily spiritual-focused. A Soulful Experience is just that, it’s an experience.
The song that makes this album a winner is “Talk That Talk”, basically the message is about people who talk about what their gonna do, yap yap yap, but NEVER follow through on what they’re talking about (we all know a few people like this). Don’t talk about it, BE about it. Rance Allen, as well as the rest of us real people, can’t get with those types of folks. PERIOD! He’s just keeping it extra real on that one.
Anyway, this is a good listen, so if you catch this in the crates, pick it up.
Check out the sound!
Talk That Talk
The Painter
Design
I’m not necessarily diggin’ the threshold application to the photography. It creates a major contrast that, quite honestly, does nothing to help the cover at all. The nicest touch to the cover is the red heart over Rance Allen’s chest. Otherwise this cover is very boring.
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I really like the type on this cover and the subtle use of red in the O & on the little heart.. Just wish the image shared the same design sensibility.