kuac: : 5 Long-Lost Soul Songs (2012-04-09)

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5 Long-Lost Soul Songs

From history's shadows, these high-quality soul tracks all feature women who deserve to be heard. by Oliver Wang In 1978, Lily Pearson, Annette Warren and Avetta Henry walked into Cleveland's Boddie Studios and recorded a six-song rehearsal reel. The group's ambitions never came to fruition, though, and their tapes ended up languishing in the studio's vaults for the next 30 years until the Chicago reissue label, Numero Group, rediscovered it in the process of compiling a Boddie anthology.

Finally released on vinyl-only, the Love Apple project may be acoustically primitive, but by all other measures, it's high-quality soul. In honor of the mysterious trio's serendipitous return, here is one of its recordings, as well as four more soul songs ? all performed by women ? which have emerged from the shadows of history in recent years.