Consumer Guide Album

Johnnie Taylor: Chronicle--The Twenty Greatest Hits [Stax, 1977]
Despite the somewhat self-serving title--the man did record for Stax pre-Don Davis, and the final track has never been a single before and will never be called a hit again--this testifies. Only on the breakthrough "Who's Makin' Love" did he ever cut a track to equal any of dozens by Otis or Aretha, but for a journeyman he's a minor genius--who knows more about fucking around than Alfred Kinsey. A−