Monday, July 22, 2019

The Cobras - Restless - 1964 Instrumental - Steve Cropper - Stax Records



It turns out that both the Cobras and the Van-Dells were one-shot records put together by members of the Mar-Keys down at Stax Studios. Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn play on both, and since both were recorded in 1964, Al Jackson is probably the drummer. 

None of those Stax people were rich at this point, not the owners and not the artists. So they were trying everything that they could think of to sneak more records into the charts without having to wait for the right time to release a "new Mar-Keys record." The mechanics of the record business could be harsh. 

Both of these cuts are rocking good records. 

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