Label: Shelter Records.
Release Date: 1973.
Recording Time: 39 minutes.
Releases: November 12, 1996 (Capitol); November 12, 1996 (The Right Stuff / Special Markets USA).
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Regional Blues, Texas Blues, Electric Texas Blues.
King's last Shelter album was his most elaborately produced, with occasional string arrangements and female backups vocals, although these didn't really detract from the net result. Boasting perhaps heavier rock elements than his other Shelter efforts, it was characteristically divided between blues standards (by the likes of Willie Dixon and Elmore James), Leon Russell tunes, and more R&B/soul-inclined material by the likes of Ray Charles and Percy Mayfield. It's been reissued, along with his other Shelter albums, on the King of the Blues anthology. - Review by Richie Unterberger.
Billboard Albums: 1973, Woman Across The River (R&B Albums #54); 1973, Woman Across The River (The Billboard 200 #158).
Credits: Michelle Azzopardi - producer; Ralph Bass - composer; Chuck Blackwell - composer, drums; Buster Brown - composer; Tom Cartwright - producer; Ray Charles - composer; Bill Dahl - liner notes; Willie Dixon - composer; Tim Edmundson - mastering; Bernadette Fauver - production coordination; Kevin Flaherty - producer; Jim Franklin - art direction, artwork, design; John Fry - engineer; Colleen Graven - producer; Rev. Patrick Henderson - keyboards, organ, piano; Elmore James - composer; Chance Johnson - producer; Richard M. Jones - composer; Jim Keltner - drums; Freddie King - guitar, primary artist, vocals; John LeMay - engineer; Charles Levan - producer; Percy Mayfield - composer; Terence P. Minogue - producer; The O'Neal Twins - vocals (background); O'Neill Twins - vocals; Cheryl Pawelski - producer; Aaron Preston - guitar; Don Preston - guitar, vocals; Carl Radle - bass; Jimmy Reed - composer; Leon Russell - composer, guest artist, keyboards, mixing, piano, producer; Valerie Skard - producer; John Thornton - composer; Adam Varon - producer, production assistant; Fats Washington - composer.
Tracks: 1) Woman Across the River; 2) (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man; 4:48) SpotifyAmazon) 3) Danger Zone; 4) Boogie Man; 5) Leave My Woman Alone; 6) Just a Little Bit; 7) Yonders Wall; 8) Help Me Through the Day; 9) I'm Ready; 10) Trouble in Mind; 11) You Don't Have to Go.