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"Soul Kitchen" is a song by the Doors from their self-titled debut album The Doors. Singer Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics as a tribute to the soul food restaurant Olivia's in Venice Beach, California. Because he often stayed too late, the staff had to kick him out, thus the lines "let me sleep all night, in your soul kitchen".[4]

"Soul Kitchen"
Song by the Doors
from the album The Doors
Released	January 4, 1967 (1967-01-04)
Recorded	August 1966
Genre	Blues rock[1] hard rock[2]
Length	3:30[3]
Label	Elektra
Songwriter(s)	The Doors[3]
Producer(s)	Paul A. Rothchild

Composition

The song is notated in the key of A Major with Jim Morrison's vocal range spanning from E₄ to A₅.[5] It has a Dorian alternation of i and IV.[6] Like the other songs from their debut album, the songwriting credit was given to each members of the Doors;[3] the performance rights organization ASCAP list the song as a group composition.[7]

Despite the songwriting credit, its lyrics were written by Morrison during the summer of 1965.[8] Guitarist Robby Krieger acknowledged soul-singer James Brown's influence on the song, stating that he wanted to simulate a horn section by Brown, with the riff heard throughout.[9] Music journalist Stephen Davis characterized it as a hard rock track,[2] while Gillian G. Gaar called it "funky blues-rock".[1]

Critical reception

Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine declared "Soul Kitchen" as a "classic Doors song".[10] According to rock critic Greil Marcus, "Soul Kitchen" is the Doors' version of "Gloria" by Van Morrison, a song the Doors often covered in their early days. Marcus writes, "It was a staircase—not, as with 'Gloria' in imagery, but in the cadence the two songs shared, slowed down so strongly in 'Soul Kitchen' that a sense of deliberation, so physical that it was more body than thought, became the guiding spirit of the song."[11]

In a 1967 article in Crawdaddy! magazine, Paul Williams compared it to "Blowin' in the Wind" since both songs had a message, with the message of "Soul Kitchen" being "Learn to forget." He praised the song: "The End" is "great to listen to when you're high (or any other time)", but "Soul Kitchen" "will get you high, which is obviously much cruder and more important."[12]

AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger praised the song's "stomping rock".[13] On June 24, 2021, The Guardian published a list with "The Doors greatest songs", in which "Soul Kitchen" was placed as the sixth.[14]

Personnel

There has been some discrepancy at who contributed the bass: Doors' engineer Bruce Botnick recalled that after the song's recording, session musician Larry Knechtel was brought in to overdub bass;[9] but guitarist Robby Krieger insisted that he played the bass guitar.[15][16][17]

The Doors

• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Ray Manzarek – organ, keyboard bass[9]
• Robby Krieger – guitar, bass guitar
• John Densmore – drums

Additional musicians

• Larry Knechtel – bass guitar[9]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Soul Kitchen (song)

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[es] Soul Kitchen (canción)

«Soul Kitchen» es una canción de The Doors de su álbum debut homónimo. El cantante Jim Morrison escribió la letra como un tributo al restaurante de comida soul Olivia's en Venice Beach, California. Debido a que a menudo se quedaba demasiado tarde, el personal tuvo que echarlo, por lo que las líneas «déjame dormir toda la noche, en tu cocina del alma».

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[ru] Soul Kitchen

«Soul Kitchen» — песня американской рок-группы the Doors с их одноименного дебютного альбома The Doors. Название песни является отсылкой к любимому кафе группы — Olivia’s, где Джим Моррисон часто зависал на долгое время, так как это место напоминало ему о доме. Из-за того, что он оставался допоздна, сотрудники часто выгоняли его из заведения, отсюда и строки: «позволь мне поспать всю ночь, на твоей душевной кухне».[2]

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