Artist: Jimmy Hughes
Author: Jimmy Hughes
Label: Fame
Year: 1964
Rhythm & blues singer from Florence, Alabama, Percy Sledge was his nephew. (See also: Neighbor, Neighbor) The first to record in Rick Hall's Fame studio on East Avalon Ave. with Dan Penn & his Pallbearers; "The Muscle Shoals sound was born when I cut Steal Away" - Rick Hall. Distributed nationally by Vee-Jay.
Covers:
Jimi Hendrix [at Fillmore East]
Not to be confused with Bobby Bland's nor with spiritual Steal Away To Jesus (see there).
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