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American Gangster
Soundtrack:  American Gangster

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Released: 2007
Label: Def Jam
Selection #: 172833
Anthony Hamilton: Do You Feel Me?; Sam & Dave: Hold On I’m Comin’; The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There; plus Bobby Womack, John Lee Hooker, more.
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1 Do You Feel Me - Hamilton, Anthony
2 Why Don't We Do It in the Road? - Fulson, Lowell
3 No Shoes - Hooker, John Lee
4 Across 110th Street - Womack, Bobby [1]
5 Stone Cold - Hamilton, Anthony
6 Hold on I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave
7 I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
8 Can't Truss It - Public Enemy
9 Checkin' Up on My Baby - Shocklee, Hank
10 Club Jam - Shocklee, Hank
11 Railroad - Shocklee, Hank
12 Nicky Barnes - Shocklee, Hank
13 Hundred Percent Pure - Streitenfeld, Marc
14 Frank Lucas - Streitenfeld, Marc
  
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Album Review

Almost all the material on the "American Gangster" soundtrack that does not originate from the early '70s or prior is engineered to at least sound like the early '70s: two excellent Anthony Hamilton songs produced by Bomb Squad innovator Hank Shocklee (both of which feature string arrangements from Willie Mitchell), as well as a handful of instrumentals produced and directed by Shocklee (including a version of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Checkin' Up On My Baby") that cook. The music that was originally released during the early '70s or earlier makes for a mini-compilation of soul and blues classics: the Staple Singers' "I'Ll Take You There," Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street," Sam & Dave's "Hold On I'M Comin'," John Lee Hooker's "No Shoes." The lone surprise is Lowell Fulsom's cover of the Beatles' "Why Don'T We Do It In The Road." An entirely fitting companion piece to the movie, but certainly not on the endlessly playable level of the "Dead Presidents" soundtrack discs. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

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