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Tuesday 24 August 2021

Crystal Winds [2021] - Lovers Holiday / Love Ain't Easy (Pt 1) [Athens Of The North #ATH108]


Last year Athens Of The North reissued Crystal Winds 1982 album "First Flight" (which has been reissued several times, in 2003, twice in 2014 and in 2020) with, what I originally thought was, an additional, previously unreleased, track "Maybe What You Do Comes Back To You".   However, a regular reader (USMAN47) has pointed out that it is actually part 2 of the original track "It's a Wonderous Thing" which AOTN have 'chopped' in two.

Yesterday I posted the first single to be released by AOTN from the album. They are also releasing  "Lovers Holiday" c/w "Love Ain't Easy (Pt 1)" on the same day (i.e. 27 Aug 2021), also available on vinyl 7", which surprisingly isn't currently listed on their BandCamp store, but I did find both singles available to pre-order on Juno

There is a another track titled "Love Ain't Easy (Pt 2)" on the album which is a shorter song which is unrecognisable to part 1 so I assume it is a different song, part 1 is a driving traditional modern soul tune whilst part 2 has more of  a steppers vibe, and there is also another track similar to "Love Ain't Easy Pt 2" titled "Funk Ain't Easy" which is the outro to the album.

Crystal Winds consisted of three former members of Rasputin Stash, Paul Coleman, Martin Dumas and Frank Donaldson, along with Morris Cortez Brown and vocalist Theresa Davis who was a cousin of the Hutchinson sisters (i.e. The Emotions), who she sang with when Jeanette left to get married (and became Jeanette Hawes) in the 70s but was later replaced by another Hutchinson sister,  Pamela. She sang on their 1977 album "Sunshine".

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Details
Rating: 8.2
Genre/Style: Modern Soul
Format: Single
Media: Digital/7"
Label: Athens Of The North
Cat No: ATH108
Date: 27/08/2021
Key/BPM: 8B/105 / 1B/107
Value: £1 / £10.50


2 comments:

USMAN47 said...

The track "Maybe What You Do Comes Back on You" is not a bonus. It's actually part 2 of the original track "It's a Wonderous Thing" which is full on the original LP (8 minutes 32). Athens Of The North chopped it up and presents this as a bonus, which is wrong. Just listen and see the lyrics in the inner sleeve.

Yves

SoulStrutter said...

Hi Yves
Thanks for the info. I only did it by eye i.e. I didn't listen to all the tracks and noted that the single had a track title that didn't appear on the original album. That is why I 'assumed' that they were issuing it on vinyl i.e. a previously unreleased track before I noticed that they were also reissuing a couple of other tracks.
Thanks for pointing this out and supporting the blog!