• 7inch


Express Your Love / Cry Love(Numero Gold Vinyl 7")

  • Cat No: ES072lp-C1
  • 2021-10-29

Format

7inch ---- JPY

NUMERO GROUPからメンフィスのスィートソウル。SWEET & INNOCENT72年ともう一枚は詳細不詳のレアな1STと2ND EPのカップリング再発。

Floating Pointsの「LateNightTales」にもピックされたベリーレアソウル、「Express Your Love」と、「Cry Love」。ポスト・ビーハイブ・ガールグループ、JACKSON 5のキッゾソウルの流れを受けながら、メンフィス、南部ソウルの色、ガレージ感がなんとも魅力な一枚。 (サイトウ)

A product of North Memphis’ segregated Dixie Homes housing complex, The Sweet & Innocent arrived during the Soulsville U.S.A. renaissance in the early ’70s. While Al Bell was busy across town turning Stax into a national Black powerhouse, Ron and Sari Bledsoe’s short-lived Active imprint operated out of a storefront on Chelsea Avenue, using nearby Manassas High as a talent pool. Rubye James and Linda Royston—Sweet & Innocent—joined a roster that included The Epics, First Company, and The Memphis Mustangs, groups all lost to the tide of time. The Sweet & Innocent’s are a rare blend of atmospheric blues, post-Beehive girl group harmony, and Jacksons-inspired kid soul. “Spin it one time for me,” Ron Bledsoe penned on promo copies of their January 1972 burner “Cry Love.” Let’s spin it again.

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