Tracklisting:
1. This Is Our Night
2. Slippery People
3. Bridges Instead Of Walls
4. The Turning Point
5. Right Decision
6. H-A-T-E (Don't Live Here Anymore)
7. On My Own Again
8. That's What Friends Are For
Bonus Tracks:
9. Slippery People (US Club Version)
10. Slippery People (Instrumental)
11. Slippery People (US single edit)
12. H-A-T-E (Don't Live Here Anymore) (US single edit)
13. Can You Hang (non-LP “B” side single)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GE6BFW/?tag=imwan-20From the label:
• Known as the first family of gospel, The Staple Singers were established as international hitmakers thanks to classics like “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There,” recorded for Stax Records in the ‘70s. After recording for Warner Brothers and 20TH Century Records, the group (Pops, Mavis, Yvonne and Cleotha) signed with Private I Records and released TURNING POINT, their debut album for the label in 1984.
• All but two tracks were produced by Pervis Staples and Stax producer/engineer Henry Bush and featured a number of key Memphis musicians. Gary Goetzman and Mike Piccirillo (who had worked with various artists including Thelma Houston and Smokey Robinson) were responsible for two cuts, “This Is Your Night” and “Slippery People,” a song composed by guitarist David Byrne, lead singer of Talking Heads who had recorded the song a year earlier. Byrne was one of the musicians on the Staples’ recording session of the song.
• “Slippery People” became the group’s first charted single in seven years, reaching No. 4 on the U.S. dance music charts and spurring TURNING POINT to No. 43 on the R&B Albums chart.
• TURNING POINT has been out of print on CD for two decades; this expanded edition includes five bonus tracks including the non-album “B” side, “Can You Hang.”
• With notes by renowned US writers Kevin Goins and Darnell Meyers=Johnson
