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Deep-voiced Latimore's sultry mid-'70s output for Miami's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Glades%22">Glades</a> label was a steamy marriage of soul and blues. Initially billed as Benny Latimore, the Tennessean began recording for Miami mogul Henry Stone in 1965, and his late-'60s Dade singles are solid deep soul. Dropping his first name on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Glades%22">Glades</a>, Latimore finally found stardom in 1973 with a jazzy reading of <a href="spotify:artist:6nPKmEbQmR8jGZEm7ArOFX">T-Bone Walker</a>'s "Stormy Monday." He topped the soul lists in 1974 with the anguished "Let's Straighten It Out," a simmering soul/blues hybrid, and encored with the incendiary "Keep the Home Fires Burnin'" the next year. Most of Latimore's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Glades%22">Glades</a> sides were produced in Miami by <a href="spotify:artist:3mnvGu4mOJr5MVVPtvaZo6">Steve "Every Day I Have to Cry" Alaimo</a>, and when he wasn't cutting his own hits, Latimore acted as a house pianist for parent TK Records. Latimore moved to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Malaco%22">Malaco</a> during the '80s, his appeal undiminished. <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Malaco%22">Malaco</a> remained Latimore's home until 2000; You're Welcome to Ride is the last record he released for the label. In 2007, Latimore established the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Latstone%22">Latstone</a> imprint, releasing the Back 'Atcha album that year. He continued to record for the label and perform regularly into the late 2010s. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
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