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Recommend some sister soul/funk

kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
edited July 2005 in Strut Central
...in the style of Trinikas, Wendy Rene, Pearl Dowell, etc. I mean, I have a good handle on all the well known classics, but if there's some more obscuro stuff out there to discover (and there always is), I want to know what to be looking for.

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  • ShingalingShingaling 877 Posts
    Joann Zachery, Joann Garrett, Sweet & Innocence, Mable John, Big Ella, Betty Evrette, Betty Swan, Ruby Andrews, Barbara Lynn, Linda Cantrell, Gloria Jones, Maxine Brown, and so on and so on and so on.
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    Cool, I'm somewhat familiar with most of those artists. If you had to pick two or three drop dead amazing songs out of that list what would they be?
  • ShingalingShingaling 877 Posts
    Joann Zachery, Joann Garrett, Sweet & Innocence, Mable John, Big Ella, Betty Evrette, Betty Swan, Ruby Andrews, Barbara Lynn, Linda Cantrell, Gloria Jones, Maxine Brown, and so on and so on and so on.

    Joann Zachery - Down To Earth
    Joann Garrett - It's No Secret
    Mable John - It's Catching (Got this 45 signed yesterday!)
    Ruby Andrews - You Made A Believer Out Of Me
    Barbara Lynn - I'm A Good Woman
    Linda Cantrell - A Little Tear

    More than 2 or 3 but hard to choose. Get them all.
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Betty Harris is another good one. 2 quality 45s to pick up, which you probably know about, but just in case:

    There's A Break In the Road

    I'm Gonna Get Ya/Can't Last Much Longer

    She got backing by the Meters and production by Allen Toussaint
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    12 Red Roses is another good one by Betty Harris. Hey, I just remembered about this song by Friday, Saturday and Sunday that was on the We Eat Trains mix on here a few months ago. Anybody know how hard it is to find a copy of that?
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,087 Posts
    Linda Tillery and Lydia Pense "Loves To Do It"

    Plus, this one rivals James Brown's blood-curtling scream on "Mother Popcorn"
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Also try Ann Sexton, Love N Stuff, um, there's more but I'm half asleep right now.
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Erma Franklin has some good 45 only releases as well. Mary Jane Hooper, Helene Smith, Explosions, Innel Young.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Miss Johnnie
    Mirettes
    Rhetta Hughes
    Ruby Johnson
    Baby Washington
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    Barbara Acklin
    Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite LP
    Fontella Bass - Free LP
    Shirley Bassey - Something LP
    Merry Clayton
    First Choice - Player LP
    Inez Foxx
    Taana Gardner
    Jo Ann Garrett
    Casietta George - This Time LP
    Marcia Griffiths - Sweet Bitter Love LP
    Etta James
    Laura Lee
    Miriam Makeba - Keep Me In Mind LP
    Letta Mbulu
    Gwen McCrae
    Sweet Inspirations
    Koko Taylor - Basic Soul LP
    Three Degrees
    Maxine Weldon - Right On LP
    Nancy Wilson - Son Of A Preacher Man LP
    Arlene Brown - Impeach Me Baby 45
    Shirley Ellis - Clapping Song 45
    Betty Everett - Take Me 45
    Eloise Laws - Tighten Him Up 45




    White Girls to get down with

    Kerrie Biddell - ST LP
    Birtha - ST LP
    Cold Blood
    Ruth Copeland
    Patsy Gallant
    Ellen McIlwaine
    Christine McVie


    I'll get to more later
  • VitaminVitamin 631 Posts
    One of my favorite records ever:



    Also:



  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Carol Jones "Problem Chlid/Dont Destroy Me"(Mutt) worth every penny of the $20-$30 this thing goes for...its raw y'all



    Dont sleep on Esther Morrow's LPs on Flying Dutchman or Fantasy.



    a couple months ago shingaling and I put together these two volumes of nothing but 60s sister soul...all 60s, so the funk content is a little slim, but these things wail!!! we have been slangin 'em at our gigs...



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