Eula Cooper - Heavenly Father

This was one of only a handful of 45 releases from Georgia's Eula Cooper, a soul singer whose scant body of work lies in inverse proportion to its exceptional quality. 1969s Heavenly Father was originally released on the Atlanta-based Tragar, and picked up for wider distribution by soul heavyweight Atlantic Records. This would be Coopers only release to see proper distribution.

Heavenly Father is an odd one. Musically speaking, Coopers hypnotic vocals and her backing group - which may or may not be the legendary Muscle Shoals rhythm and horn section - seem to be going in slightly different directions at times. Still, though, they seem to wind up in the same place. Lyrically speaking, Heavenly Father is an appeal to a higher power, leading me to wonder: why waste such an appeal on your reprobate boyfriend? I save my appeals for more important things, like getting out of speeding tickets.

Tragar Production, seen here on the label, refers again to Tragar Records. As a label, it was one of Georgia's finest R&B and soul indies, its roster of long-forgotten names today reading like a who's who of disillusionment and musical dreams abandoned.

Words c/o: http://www.officenaps.com
With credit to: Brian Poust http://www.georgiasoul.com http://georgiasoul.blogspot.com

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Music

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• Eula
• Cooper
• Heavenly
• Father

[brightbcl]

sampled ^_^

[brightbcl]

sampled ^_^

[CHICANAPRIDE510]

DAMN SWEET! *****

[fannycraddock99]

WOW. This is new to me. It's given me goosebumps. 5* I'll have to find out more about this lady.

[Toracube]

Awesome. Never heard of her before. Thanks. Andy. 5 from me.

[piaggiolover77]

servus....

bin froh dass du wieder einen so coolen track gepostet hast...

ktf....

dany.....