Album Info

Get It While You Can - The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions

By Howard Tate

R&B/Soul - 2004

Because Verve was a jazz label that didn’t quite know how to market a soul record, it took well over... more

Tracklist

1

Ain't Nobody Home

2:26 min
2

Part-Time Love

3:32 min
3

Glad I Knew Better

2:14 min
4

How Blue Can You Get?

2:31 min
5

Get It While You Can

2:44 min
6

Baby, I Love You

2:24 min
7

I Learned It All the Hard Way

2:40 min
8

Everyday I Have the Blues

1:58 min
9

How Come My Bulldog Don't Bark

2:50 min
10

Look At Granny Run Run

2:12 min
11

Stop

2:46 min
12

Sweet Love Child

2:16 min
13

Ain't Nobody Home (Single Version)

2:28 min
14

How Come My Bulldog Don't Bark (Single Version)

2:49 min
15

Look At Granny Run Run (Single Version)

2:19 min
16

Half a Man (Single Version)

2:41 min
17

Get It While You Can (Single Version)

2:44 min
18

Glad I Knew Better (Single Version)

2:22 min
19

Baby, I Love You (Single Version)

2:20 min
20

How Blue Can You Get? (Single Version)

2:32 min
21

I Learned It All the Hard Way (Single Version)

2:46 min
22

Part-Time Love (Single Version)

3:34 min
23

Stop (Single Version)

2:44 min
24

Shoot 'Em All Down (Single Version)

2:38 min
25

Everyday I Have the Blues (Single Version)

1:55 min
26

Night Owl (Single Version)

2:12 min
27

Sweet Love Child (Single Version)

2:22 min
28

I'm Your Servant (Single Version)

2:14 min
29

Give Me Some Courage (2004 Mix)

2:13 min

About Get It While You Can - The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions

Because Verve was a jazz label that didn’t quite know how to market a soul record, it took well over two decades for Howard Tate’s 1966 debut album to gain momentum. And when it did, Get It While You Can achieved a cult following so big it pulled Tate out of reclusion, thrusting him back into music. But it was his original chemistry with producer/arranger/songwriter Jerry Ragovoy that made this album so loved that it prompted Janis Joplin to cover the emotionally urgent title track and James Gang to record a 12-minute version of the album’s hard-grooving power-soul standout “Stop.” Check out the infectiously catchy opener, “Ain’t Nobody Home” (where Tate’s dynamic inflections soar higher than his pompadour), or the slow-burning strut of “Look at Granny Run Run.” The 2004 reissue boasts a forehead-slapping 19 extra tracks, including single edits and some cleaned-up mono mixes so you can listen to these songs very near to how they were originally meant to be heard. Notable bonus tracks include the danceable “Night Owl” and “Give Me Some Courage.”