Percy Sledge- Honest As Daylight: Hits & Rarities (CD)
Percy Sledge - Honest As Daylight, A Hits & Rarities Collection Winner Of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation Career Achievement Award (1989) Inductee Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (2005) Greatest Hits & Rarities - 5 Tracks Previously Unreleased on CD / Recorded in the Late '70s & Early '80s Percy Sledge will forever be associated with "When a Man Loves a Woman," a pleading, soulful ballad he sang with wrenching, convincing anguish and passion. Sledge sang all of his songs that way, delivering them in a powerful rush where he quickly changed from soulful belting to quavering, tearful pleas. It was a voice that made him one of the key figures of deep Southern soul.
Percy Sledge - Honest As Daylight, A Hits & Rarities Collection Winner Of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation Career Achievement Award (1989) Inductee Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (2005) Greatest Hits & Rarities - 5 Tracks Previously Unreleased on CD / Recorded in the Late '70s & Early '80s Percy Sledge will forever be associated with "When a Man Loves a Woman," a pleading, soulful ballad he sang with wrenching, convincing anguish and passion. Sledge sang all of his songs that way, delivering them in a powerful rush where he quickly changed from soulful belting to quavering, tearful pleas. It was a voice that made him one of the key figures of deep Southern soul.