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| Everybody Needs Love: The Life and Music of Eddie Hinton by Bruce Schurman is out now in paperback. |
Everybody Needs Love: The Life and Music of Eddie Hinton
"Eddie was a black man in a white man's body. No one I've ever worked with or heard had any more Soul than Eddie did. His guitar playing was always tasteful, strong and distinctive... his voice grabbed you and pulled you in so that you not only heard it, but you felt it... and were mesmerized by it. He had a beautiful smile... but behind it were some inner thoughts that had to do with some deep pain that he kept hidden inside. That was one of the things that made him so intriguing, so interesting and so powerful." - Chuck Leavell, piano player for the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers Band
Drummer-turned UPS worker, Nova Scotia-born Bruce Schurman discovered the music of the late soul singer/songwriter and session guitarist Eddie Hinton after retirement. Although Hinton released relatively few recordings under his own name during his short life, he wrote some memorable tunes cut by Dusty Springfield ("Breakfast In Bed")," Jackie Moore ("Cover Me"), Bobby Womack ("A Little Bit Salty"), Lulu ("Where's Eddie"), Oscar Toney, Jr ("Down In Texas"), Candi Staton, Laura Lee ("Sure As Sin"), Tony Joe White ("300 Pounds of Hongry"), and added tasteful guitar parts to songs by many others.
Naturally enough, Schurman wanted to know more about Hinton but found scant little biographical information apart from what can be gleaned from the series of Hinton's recordings circulated by Zane Records – check out Dear Y'all, Hard Luck Guy, Letters From Mississippi and Very Blue Highway – and the many tall tales about Eddie's exploits while working at Rick Hall's FAME Studios and later as part of Alabama's legendary Muscle Shoals rhythm section known as "The Swampers."
So Schurman headed south to Muscle Shoals where he tracked down Eddie's surviving family members, fellow musicians and friends to get their side of the story. He just published the results of his investigation as Everybody Needs Love: The Life and Music of Eddie Hinton via Austin Macauley Publishers. Get a copy right here.
Paul Hornsby shares some recollections of Eddie Hinton followed by Eddie Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous (Capricorn) album from 1978 along with a few of Eddie's songs recorded by others below.
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