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Dobie Gray Covers

Pattaya Martin

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Pattaya Martin @ 2017-02-25 12:53:04 UTC

Dobie Gray released an Album called 'Diamond Cuts' on Dobie Gray Productions in

1998 (Wikipedia) or 2000 (Amazon & Allmusic).

Their are covers of 4 classic tracks on this album as listed.

1. Cupid (Sam Cooke)

2. Crazy (Willie Nelson)

3, Slip Away (Clarence Carter)

4. Lean on Me (Bill Withers)

None of which appear on the Database. I know they exist as I have them downloaded.

I would be interested to know what year this Album was released and if it was a Studio Album or a Compilation Album. If it was the latter when each of the songs were originally released by Dobie as I cant find any reference to them in his discography prior to 'Diamond Cuts'

Also there was an album called Best of Dobie Gray on the Curb Records label in 2004 (Cat No D2-78907)

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Pattaya Martin

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Pattaya Martin @ 2017-02-25 21:16:17 UTC

Sorry Walt, I was slightly misled because I started looking into this when checking out Dobie Gray's cover of Lean On Me and saw it was not listed (and still Isn't). I then started checking on other sites for details of the album Diamond Cuts and got confused by the different release years I found. Obviously I forgot to check the SHS listings for the other 3 songs, which as you rightly say are listed, However I note that Dobie Gray's website lists the year as 1997 on the main page, but on his Discography page says 1998/99 ???

Thanks anyway,

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walt

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walt @ 2017-02-26 14:21:58 UTC

Added 'Lean on Me'. Good spot! Thank you.