Max Merritt - 23 Trax of Max 196582 (23 tracks)

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Max Merritt
23 Trax of Max (1965-82)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Fannie Mae - Max Merritt, Glasco, Waymon
2. Shake - Max Merritt, Cooke, Sam
3. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Max Merritt, Dozier, Lamont
4. I Want So Much to Know You - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
5. Respect - Max Merritt, Redding, Otis
6. Louisianna Anna - Max Merritt, Tarleton, Karl
7. Good Feelin' - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
8. I've Been Away Too Long - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
9. Home Is Where the Heart Is - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
10. Western Union Man - Max Merritt, Butler, J.
11. Live Levis - Max Merritt, Aulton, Pat
12. Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham - Max Merritt, Bramlett, Delaney
13. Let It Slide - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
14. To Be a Lover - Max Merritt, Tarleton, Karl
15. Try a Little Tenderness - Max Merritt, Campbell, Jimmy [Vo
16. Slipping Away - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
17. A Little Easier - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
18. Whisper in My Ear - Max Merritt, Lewis, Rich
19. Midnight Man - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
20. Ain't You Glad You Came? [Live] - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max
21. A Lover's Question - Max Merritt, Benton, Brook
22. Dirty Work - Max Merritt, Becker, Walter [1]
23. Prove It - Max Merritt, Merritt, Max

CD Details

All Artists: Max Merritt
Title: 23 Trax of Max (1965-82)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Raven [Australia]
Original Release Date: 1/1/1999
Re-Release Date: 1/12/1999
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 9398800001527, 766489208626

Synopsis

Album Description

Gravel-voiced soul king Max Merritt was one of the few true enigmas of Australasian music. From the time he arrived in Sydney (from Auckland) with one of his many versions of The Meteors in 1965, he was unchallenged as Oz Rock's premier live act. More interested in white hot performances in smoky clubs than the often soul destroying process of making records to please narrow radio formats, Max & the Meteors spent very little time in the studio. This factor, combined with Max's tendency to move from one record company to another (four in NZ alone), long made any sort of reasonable anthology of his music difficult to compile. Raven broached that problem some years ago by successfully negotiating to release the album 17 Trax Of Max, a 'best of' set covering his work from 1965 to 1979 but omitting his hit Arista recordings from the mid-1970s. With the transfer of that powerful collection of soul, R&B, funk &