"A monster treat for fans of female soul – rare recordings back to back, by two of the 60s greatest under-recorded voices! Judy Clay's work for the Stax label has been issued elsewhere before, but this set features 15 tunes by Judy recorded before her years at Stax – for the Scepter and LaVette labels, recorded on the east coast with a mixture of hard and uptown styles that really show a different side of her talents! Most of the tunes were originally only issued on 45s, and there's even a few on the set that were never issued during the 60s. Titles by Judy include "I'm Uptight", "Lonely People Do Foolish Things", "I'm Comin Home", "You Busted My Mind", "Your Kind Of Lovin", "Turn Back The Time", and "That's All". The remaining 10 tracks on the CD were recorded by Marie Knight around the same time – mostly for the Musicor label, with a sweeter style that's more strictly in an east coast uptown mode. Marie's vocals are still quite deeply handled, though – and the set's got some great arrangements by Garry Sherman and Bert Keyes, and tracks that include "You Lie So Well", "Hey Tell Me Boy", "A Little Too Lonely", "Say It Again", and "Comes The Night"." (Out of print.) © 1996-2015, Dusty Groove, Inc.
