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CANDI STATON - His Hands
| Blues&Soul Online | | ames Bailey sang with the Big Apple doo-wop group The Cadillacs in the early 1960s before striking out on his own and scoring a minor US hit in 1968 with “Love Won’t Wear Off (As The Years Where On).” Four years later, Bailey was considered hot property: he penned The Main Ingredient’s big crossover smash, “Everybody Plays The Fool,” and hit the charts himself with “Love, Love, Love,” an infectious Marvin Gayer-tinged tune....full text |
| | Playlouder | | There is a dubious tendency among some English soul fans to see the genre as being populated entirely by sharecropping victims of white owned record labels. This is arrant nonsense, and for every Nina Simone there is a Republican Reganite (or Nixonite or Bushite depending on the record) capitalist success story such as James Brown. This said, this genre does seem to throw up the odd character who doesn't seem to have been treated well by life's tepid tombola....full text |
| | The Independent | | After the acclaim that greeted last year's compilation of Candi Staton's great 1970s Southern soul recordings, the singer was persuaded to record new material in similar country-soul style. Staton had turned to the church in the 1980s while in the depths of alcoholism, and needed convincing to return to the secular music which made her name. Even so, she steers clear of " cheatin' songs", having had bitter first-hand experience of the damage adultery does. Instead, the protagonists of songs like "When Hearts Grow Cold" and "In Name Only" are resolved to stay in stale marriages, whatever the price: "When hearts grow cold, we still live together, but we live alone"....full text |
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