Best-known for 1963's "Cry Baby" which went to #1 R&B and #4 pop which essentially brought gospel music into rock, Garnet Mimms has a new album coming out in March called "Is Anybody Out There?"
This is the first effort in 30 years by Mimms who is now a preacher.
Another big hit, especially in Beach Music, is "A Quiet Place."
R&B expert Robert Pruter writes that "Cry Baby" was "one of those great seminal songs in the emergence of soul music... The song was a gospelized production so full of the soul-saving, fire-and-brimstone ectasies of the black sanctified church that it singularly stood apart. ...Never had the public heard anything so intense and emotional on Top 40 radio."
No doubt there. "Cry Baby" just bleeds anguish. I couldn't have put it any better myself. I have his greatest hits album, well CD. I just might have to pop that on and give it another listen.
Chicago Tribune Feb. 13th "Second chapter for soul singer" by Nick Cristiano
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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