In the introduction to Have A Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story, I talked briefly about Sam & Dave.

My dad was a die-hard soul fan. I grew up marveling at the jackets of his Atlantic soul compilations: Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Don Covay—titans of soul. It was raw. They would scream, shout, croon; Sam Moore of Sam & Dave would have tiny bouts of involuntary laugh spasms in the middle of a line. Even when these artists were pouring their hearts out on a soul-wrenching ballad, they s...