WENDY RENE After Hours Some Tears 2 LP SET FROM 2012-A SOUL LEGEND FOR 4 YEARS
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WENDY RENE After Hours Some Tears 2 LP SET FROM 2012-A SOUL LEGEND FOR 4 YEARS
A MINT MINUS 2 LP ON LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS LITA 080
FROM 2012 WITH HER STAX SINGLES
WITH LACQUERED GLOSSY GATEFOLD COVER STOCK
WITH THE ORIGINAL FOUR PAGE LINER NOTE INSERT AS SHOWN
TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE LABEL PHOTOS
BACKGROUND INFO FROM ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Wendy Rene isn't a name that comes up much when people talk about soul legends. Never famous, and active for only four short years, her legacy is in the archives with hundreds of other obscure soul acts of the early '60s. Listening to After Laughter Comes Tears, it's mind-boggling that the amount of talent and raw soul put forth by Rene failed to register with audiences of her day or be rediscovered earlier along the line. Sure, in 1994 Wu-Tang Clan built a track on their classic debut 36 Chambers on samples from the spooky organ-led tune that this collection takes its name from, and several years later Alicia Keys borrowed heavily from the same song with her composition "Where Do We Go from Here." DJs and collectors have paid top dollar for her increasingly impossible-to-find singles, but on a broader scale, Wendy Rene has gone largely unrecognized. Starting out as a teenager, Rene sang with short-lived Memphis group the Drapels. The Drapels sole four tracks (all included here) are strong, if standard, Southern soul of their era. Where Rene truly found her voice was on the songs recorded under her own name between 1964 and 1965. Included here is her entire recorded output; all the singles she sang on, as well as nine rarities and two completely unreleased tracks. Ranging from infectious upbeat dance-craze stompers to minor-key ballads of lost-love misery, this is '60s soul at its absolute best, and it's amazing it took almost 50 years to be reissued.
"Love at First Sight" sums up what makes Wendy Rene so powerful. This fairly plain soul song is the typical girl-meets-boy-at-the-dance tale, unremarkable on the surface and generally unassuming. In Rene's care, however, this B-side fodder is imbued with all the loneliness and heartbreak imaginable. Even in lines about happy new love, Rene sounds as if she's singing from the world's edge, gripping hollow promises from a new boy as tightly as possible, lest she fall into the abyss. There's a cold shadow over almost all of Wendy's strongest songs. "After Laughter Comes Tears" is absolutely haunted, but even the slight melancholy of "The Same Guy" and the corny lover-done-me-wrong story line of "Crowded Park" hint at deeper chasms of sorrow. That said, this collection is far from a downer. The jubilant opener, "Bar-B-Q," a ridiculous ode to summer cookouts, lacks any creeping dread, and if you're not paying close attention, it's easy to miss the well-concealed heartache in Rene's steamrolling vocals. Having all 22 known recordings in one place sheds light on just how incredible a performer the world missed out on at the time. The raw, smoky recording quality and electric performances by the Stax session musicians leave just the right amount of negative space for Rene to command the songs with a voice as potent as that of Irma Thomas, Barbara George, Aretha Franklin, or any of the more widely known names in soul history.
GATEFOLD COVER STOCK WITH LIGHT RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. TOP LEFT CORNER WITH CRUSH MARK. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.
VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLES. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS AND OR PAPER SLEEVE STORAGE IMPRESSIONS. SIDE A WITH A LIGHT SURFACE RUB SCUFF FLINE ACROSS THE LAST TWO TRACKS IN THE 4 POSITION.
FROM A NOTED REVIEWER'S PRIVATE COLLECTION
RARELY SEEN LP WHICH NOW FETCHES 100 PLUS WHEN SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY
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