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Title: Stax/Volt Review Smokes in Norway
Review: You take arguably the best backup band in the country, add a hot horn section and put them behing some of the finest soul performers in the business at their peak and this is what you get - a show you wished you had seen in person. When you put Booker T & The MGs and the MarKeys behind Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave and the incomporable Otis Redding you are in for a hot time, indeed, and this DVD - made for TV in Norway during the Stax/Volt tour of Europe in 1967 - captures that excitement. The only thing keeping it from a full 5-star rating is that it appears some of the Eddie Floyd segment has been lost for some reason and it was shot in black and white, but those are minor picks at otherwise excellent footage. Watching this DVD will let you relive the times when soul music had soul and performers gave it everything they had and provided their own pyrotechnics without the need of 22 dancers and 10 back-up singers to entertain you. This is the real thing!
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