Who's Making Love...

by Johnnie Taylor

Overview

The song "Who's Making Love?" was among Johnnie Taylor's biggest chart hits, with Taylor's tough but impassioned vocal supported by a potently energetic performance by the usual Stax Records crew (including Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and the Memphis Horns. But Who's Making Love, the album assembled to accompany the single, is for the most part dominated by more measured and blues-based material. While "Take Care of Your Homework" generates a potent groove (and reads like a sequel to "Who's Making Love"), and "Hold on This Time" is a remarkably successful emulation of the Motown production style, for the most part, Who's Making Love suggests Taylor was most comfortable with slow, sorrowful laments such as "Can't Trust Your Neighbor" and "Poor Make Believer," and while these tunes lack the dancefloor drive of Taylor's uptempo hits, no one can deny he knows how to make the most of the dramatic sweep of a tale of love gone wrong, and his tales of lovers gone astray (and paying the price) carry a weight not unlike that of his earlier gospel period. Who's Making Love captures some of the high points of Taylor's career as a Southern soul man, and finds him nodding to his past and well as his future in his search for inspiration. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date:	12/06/2019
Label:	Craft Records
UPC:	0888072092563
Rank:	40424

Tracks

1. Who's Making Love
2. I'm Not the Same Person
3. Hold On This Time
4. Woman Across the River
5. Can't Trust Your Neighbor
6. Take Care of Your Homework
7. I'm Trying
8. Poor Make Believer
9. Payback Hurts
10. Mr. Nobody Is Somebody Now
11. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johnnie Taylor   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Isaac Hayes   Piano
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Bass
The Memphis Horns   Horn,Horn Section
Al Jackson, Jr.   Drums
Steve Cropper   Guitar
Booker T. & the MG's   Vocals (Background)
Booker T. Jones   Organ,Vocals (Background)
Allen Jones   Piano

Technical Credits

Don Davis   Producer,Mixing,Composer,Remixing
Thomas Kelly   Composer
Bettye Crutcher   Composer
Kirk Felton   Remastering,Digital Remastering
Isaac Hayes   Composer
Chuck Jones   Composer
Lately   Composer
Eddie Miller   Composer,Composer
Johnnie Taylor   Composer
Homer Banks   Composer
Ron Capone   Mixing,Engineer,Remixing
Al Jackson, Jr.   Composer,Producer
Russell Jackson   Composer
Steve Cropper   Composer
Billy Davis, Jr.   Composer
Kelly   Composer
Booker T. Jones   Composer
David Porter   Composer
Raymond Jackson   Composer
Chris Whorf   Art Direction
William R. Eastabrook   Photography
Paul Kelly   Composer
James Lately   Composer
Don David   Producer
Allen Jones   Composer