Soul4Real New Releases - Annette Snell (S4R27) & Frederick Knight (S4R28)
Pre-order now for 14th May
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I Think Iยดm Falling In Love / Tonight I Feel Like Dancing
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Youยดve Never Really Lived / How, When Or Where
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ANNETTE SNELL
The Sandersville, Georgia-born Annette โSlimโ Snell arrived at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in April 1977 at a time when the studioโs house band, nicknamed โThe Swampersโ, was firing on all cylinders. The thirty-two-year-old Snell was at the cusp of becoming a successful solo artist after more than a decade as a Miami backing vocalist and latterly in Nashville, where she cut for Buddy Killenโs Dial label. The Muscle Shoals session, which was produced by Jimmy Johnson and Roger Hawkins, resulted in four tracks but only two appeared at the time.
Annette Snell never got to hear the finished labours. She was killed when the plane in which she was returning to Atlanta crash-landed and caught fire near New Hope, Georgia. Soul music had lost a rising star.
These two cuts, co-written by pre-eminent songwriters including George Jackson and Philip Mitchell, have been languishing in the vaults for over forty years, a forgotten testament to what might have been.
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FREDERICK KNIGHT
One of the main figures in Alabamaโs music scene, Frederick Knight arrived at Stax in 1972 and hit with the country soul of "I've Been Lonely For So Long", making number 8 on the R&B chart, and the subsequent album was a real milestone in his career.
Prior to this he played a significant part as a producer/writer at Neil Hemphill's Sound of Birmingham Studios where the Stax album was cut. Later that decade Knight would again achieve commercial success with his own record label, Juana, and the recordings of The Controllers and, most notably, Anita Ward.
These early 70s tracks have never surfaced on vinyl before, both of which were also recorded in Birmingham. The plaintive ballad "You've Never Really Lived" with its subtle tempo will have you hooked from the off, while "How, When Or Where" is a mid-tempo opus that will please the dancers out there.
Two utterly fabulous tunes.
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Label design by Jordi Durรณ.
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