Along with the Beatles, Motown, and later English Rock with Zeppelin et al, soul music was a huge influence on me growing up. And this music cut in the South was just different than the Detroit/Berry Gordy Motown sound, in this case at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with an all-white studio band with David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and other guys that would go on to bigger things later down the line.
Back before he was strokin', Clarence Carter just wanted to
Slip Away. The slinky groove, the horn punches, and Carter's voice, I could just eat this stuff with a spoon. This always makes me think of an out-of-the-way BBQ joint, a stack of hot links with a side of sliced white onion and dill pickles, and hand me the ribs.
