Cooke, Sam: Night Beat LP

Clearly Sam Cooke’s most intimate, most soulful and ultimately most realized recordings. Night Beat has the feel of a private performance captured after hours when the audience had gone home and the singer was singing purely for the love and soul of his songs. From spiritual tracks to bluesy ballads to gospel classics, Cooke makes each cut his own here which in turn makes for a warm collection that's easy to connect with.