Just purchased: Steve Cropper's Dedicated- a Salute to the 5 Royales...

Track Listing

1. Thirty Second Lover - with Steve Winwood
2. Don't Be Ashamed - with Bettye LaVette and Willie Jones
3. Baby Don't Do It - with B.B King and Shemekia Copeland
4. Dedicated to the One I Love - with Lucinda Williams and Dan Penn
5. My Sugar Sugar - with John Popper
6. Right Around the Corner - with Delbert McClinton
7. Help Me Somebody - Steve Cropper instrumental
8. I Do - with Brian May
9. Messin' Up - with Sharon Jones
10. Say It - with Bettye LaVette
11. The Slummer the Slum - with Buddy Miller
12. Someone Made You For Me - with Dan Penn
13. Think - Steve Cropper instrumental
14. Come On & Save Me - with Dylan Leblanc and Sharon Jones
15. When I Get Like This - with Lucinda Williams

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All Music Guide 
It begins with an excellent rendition of "Thirty Second Lover" featuring Winwood, but, fine as it is, it's a teaser for what's to come. LaVette and Willie Jones tear up "Don't Be Ashamed." On "Dedicated to the One I Love," Williams literally sends shivers up and down the spine as she uses her gauzy, slow, emotive voice to wrench every ounce of emotion from the verses -- with Penn adding another dimension to them on the bridge. Speaking of Penn, an excellent but reluctant lead singer, his reading of "Someone Made You for Me" is one of the most unexpectedly endearing performances on the set. McClinton's "Right Around the Corner" puts these rhythm & blues in the heart of honky tonk country. The back-to-back readings of "Messin' Up" by Jones and "Say It" by LaVette come close to stealing the show -- but Williams still holds on with the title track and her searingly naked "When I Get Like This" as the closer. Cropper also takes a couple of economical but stinging instrumental breaks on "Help Me Somebody" and "Think" that reveal the depth of Pauling's genius as well as his own. Given what a mixed bag tribute albums usually are, Dedicated is not only a surprise for its consistency, but a shining example of what they can -- and should -- be. (complete review)