Percy Sledge

AUDIO: Percy Sledge (1994)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 1994

The sould legend from the Quad-cities, Tri-states area on Otis, Bobby Womack, his love of country music, and the making of the National Anthem of North-West Alabama, 'When A Man Loves A Woman'.

File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 74.8meg, total interview length: 1h 21' 39" sound quality: ***

Percy Sledge: The Best Of Percy Sledge

Interview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, December 1969

PERCY SLEDGE is here for a three-week tour, and to coincide with it Atlantic have released a single, 'True Love Travels On A Gravel Road', ...

Percy Sledge

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, October 1970

PERCY SLEDGE made a fleeting visit to London recently on his way to Holland to receive an award. Naturally, B&S got together with him and ...

Percy Sledge: The Venue, London

Live Review by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, April 1979

THE SIMPLISTIC idea that the fundamental difference between country and soul in the Sixties was that one music was made by poor whites in the ...

501 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1987

Percy Sledge: Town & Country Club, London ...

Percy Sledge: Gone Fishin'

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, March 1987

The only definite sighting of PERCY SLEDGE in recent weeks has been in the UK Top Ten. BARNEY HOSKYNS reviews the career of the elusive ...

Percy Sledge: A Beautiful Life

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, December 1994

ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1967, THE MACON, GEORGIA, office of Phil Walden and Associates, management and booking agents, was thronging with the most heavyweight soul ...

Out Of Left Cotton Field: The Brokenhearted Country Soul Of Percy Sledge

Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Complete Atlantic Recordings' (Rhino), 2010

PERCY SLEDGE IS as prone to romanticizing Muscle Shoals as the many music writers who rhapsodize about the area in pieces about local luminaries like ...