Annie 'Jewel' Bass was the female lead singer in Centaura and
Carbon Copies, apparently gaining the name Jewel from her "jewel" voice. She
released four singles on Malaco between 1973-79 and in 2010 Garry Cape put
out a dozen of her recordings (all her singles and six unreleased songs (one side was released twice and another was an instrumental)) on
a Soulscape CD "Malaco Soul Sisters" along with nine tracks by Dorothy Moore.
Soul4Real has taken all twelve tracks from "Malaco Soul Sisters" for
their third vinyl album release titled "In And Out Of Love" scheduled for release on 20 Oct. They have also included an
unreleased track "Sweet High" which they released as a single in 2020
along with another, "I Wanna Know", from the same session at International Recording Studio, Pearl, MS, in
1981.
Sleeve notes from UK soul guru Steve Guarnori tell us that Jewel started
singing in church (no surprise there) and got her start in secular music in
a friend's group temporarily replacing their singer who was ill.
She joined Malaco Records in 1969 as a backing singer and recorded sessions with
such luminaries as Johnny Taylor, Eddie Floyd, Bobby Blue Bland, Jean
Knight, Tommy Tate, Latimore, Z.Z. Hill, Dorothy Moore as well as Barrett
Strong, Tommie Young, King Floyd, Ted Taylor, Fern Kinney, Anita Ward,
Denise LaSalle, G.C. Cameron, Little Milton, C.L. Blast and many
others.
As well as the aforementioned groups, Jewel sang with The VIPs'
(1973), Polephemus (1976) and These Days (1979).
Cliff Steele & Andy Tats Taylor's Creative Soul reissued
Carbon Copies 'holy grail' recording
"Just Don't Love You" along with "I Need Love" on vinyl in Oct '22.
The 2010 Soundscape CD is long deleted and is hard to come by on the resale
market but now the full collection of Bass's recordings plus a bonus track
are available together on vinyl for the first time.
Available to pre-order now via
Soul4Real. Get your order in now as these tend to sell out on pre-order!
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
| Rating: | 8.7 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | 70s Soul |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Vinyl |
| Label: | Soul4Real |
| Cat No: | S4RLP03 |
| Date: | 20/10/2023 |
| Price: | €24 |
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