Eddie Hinton, Muscle Shoals' session guitarist played on hits recorded by Wilson Pickett, Arthur Conley, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge, The Staples Singers, The Dells, Paul Kelly, Johnny Taylor, Elvis Presley, The Box Tops, R.B Greaves, Boz Scaggs, Toots Hibbert, and Otis Redding. His songs have been recorded by Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, Bobby Womack, Cher, Toney Joe White, Gregg Allman, Bonnie Bramlett, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, UB40, Jim Dickinson, and more! Playin Around is the fourth release in a set of albums documenting archive Eddie Hinton recordings. Comprising 20 previously unreleased tracks, including two rare live performances, PlayinAround extends from the period 1964/5 up to the live recordings from 1991. This new disc represents the culmination of Zane Records 15-year project to release all known archive recordings of the great Eddie Hinton. Hintons songs were recorded by an amazing array of soul, R&B and blues greats including Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Jon Hammond, Dusty Springfield and Percy Sledge. Eddie Hinton is best remembered as a singer-songwriter, a blue-eyed soul man whose voice, with more gravel than an Alabama back road, has been described as the epitome of unbounded emotion...........................