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Monday 1 May 2023

Ruby Wilson / Queen Emily [2023] - Love Has Come / Throw Away Me [Jai Alai #JAR09]


There has been a lot of vinyl reissues this week which we tried to mop up yesterday but another two landed this morning from Alex Subina's Jai Alai imprint. The label is reissuing four songs by four different artists over two 45s.

The first pairing consists of tracks taken from two self titled Malaco albums. The A side, "Love Has Come", from Ruby Wilson's 1981 self-titled album along with "Throw Away Me" from Queen Emily's only album in 2010.

Ruby Wilson was born in Fort Worth, TX, but was based and performed in Memphis becoming known as "The Queen of Beale Street". She released a couple of singles on T.K.'s Glades imprint in the 70s and signed to Malaco in 1981 releasing her debut, eponymous, album A further three albums followed in the late 80s with three more appearing in the noughties. Ruby died in 2016.
 
Queen Emily David is another Texan, from Houston, and her solitary album was released as a result of being a semi-finalist of America’s Got Talent in 2008 at the age of 40. In 1999 she won a Sammy Davis Jr award but, as a single-mother, put her singing career on hold to bring up her two daughters. 

A year after America’s Got Talent, Malaco boss Tommy Couch Jr. called her out of the blue and offered her a contract without even meeting her. A digital 4-track EP titled "Sings" was released in the US, but her album was released by Malaco on CD in the UK in 2010 before the US which was eventually released in 2014. It includes a version of Frederick Knight's "I Betcha Didn’t Know That" and Bill Withers' "Use Me" but it is the George Jackson ballad "Throw Away Me" that has been chosen for release on 45.  Note: she sings "Throw Away Me" but the album 'incorrectly' labels the track "Throw Me Away". 

Available to pre-order now from Jai Alai for release on 14 May '23, but be quick as their recent releases sold out on pre-order within 24 hours!

Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.

Details
Rating: 8.6
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Southern Soul
Format: Single
Media: 7" Vinyl
Label: Jai Alai
Cat No: JAR09
Date: 14/05/2023
Key/BPM: 9B/94 / 6B/70
Price: €14
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1 comment:

USMAN47 said...

Very good old southern soul!!!

Yves