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Trust Me = Janis Joplin's Amazing Track from PEARL with original songwriter Bobby Womack playing on it. Joe Vig review on AllMusic.
TRUST ME Janis Joplin 48 years 10-5-1970
Song Review by Joe Viglione [-] https://www.allmusic.com/song/trust-me-mt0008311314?fbclid=IwY2xjawRsu81leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeEn7LazNMROH4ax-Uva-bJUgxTJaJAlINjh0waWalXqzDjA-IlEREdAzhR5k_aem_b_5MYW9dHYc9YN6TJuBPow
Songwriter Bobby Womack released this superb tune on his 1975 Safety Zone album, but in its form as the sleeper track on Janis Joplin’s 1971 Pearl album, “Trust Me” emerges with great power, a performance that is Janis at her absolute best. Her voice goes from sweet in the first couple of lines to raspy when she so knowingly issues lines like “the older the grape, the sweeter the wine.” Ken Pearson’s organ works wonderfully alongside Bobby Womack’s acoustic guitar and John Till’s electric. Paul Rothchild’s production work is simply amazing, choreographing this thick array of sounds and piecing them together perfectly, Brad Campbell’s bass and Richard Bell’s piano lines both dancing inside the changes. Listen to Clark Pierson’s definite drums as the song fades out, a solid team effort recorded on September 25, 1970, just a week and a half before Janis would leave us. In a small catalog of work, “Trust Me” shows what truly gifted art Janis Joplin brought to this world. Having Womack participating is a treat, the element of the songwriter working with the interpreter and their camaraderie as a major contribution to this definitive version cannot be overlooked. The creative energy is in these grooves and one doesn’t have to imagine how magical the room must have been when this music was made. It translates very well. As “Me & Bobby McGee” has been overplayed, “Trust Me” has been underexposed. This key piece of the Pearl album concisely shows Janis Joplin as the equal of Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Billie Holiday, Otis Redding and her other heroes. At certain moments during this song Joplin eclipses even those gods.
Original Bobby Womack on Minit
BOBBY WOMACK Trust me
Minit 32024 - Baby I Can’t Stand It / Trust Me - 1967 *Also recorded and unissued in 1967 by Jackie Lee for the Mirwood label plus it was issued in 1972 by Roscoe Robinson on Paula 373. Minit 32030 - Somebody Special / Broadway Walk - https://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/bwomack.htm.... 1967 *Also recorded in 1968 by Roy Head on Mercury 72799.
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Bobby Womack
10 Year Old Curtis Womack and The Womack Brothers
Bobby Womack (born Bobby Dwayne Womack on the 4-March-1944 in Cleveland, Ohio) Him 1001 - Nothing You Can Do* / Get It While You Can - 1965 *written by Bobby Womack. The musicians on this track were later to become War. --- Also recorded in 1967 by Wilson Pickett on Atlantic 2381.
Minit 32024 - Baby I Can’t Stand It / Trust Me - 1967 *Also recorded and unissued in 1967 by Jackie Lee for the Mirwood label plus it was issued in 1972 by Roscoe Robinson on Paula 373.
