So I just bought "Candi Staton"

*silence*

*looks around*

I'll get me coat.

Anybody know if Candi is kin to Dakota Staton?

My favourites on that compilation. Check for her later song 'Victim' too if you haven't heard it.

I've been chasing after these recordings ever since and have had virtually no luck, with the exception of finding one Candi Staton LP ("Candi", which I believe was her last for Rick Hall) and one or two stray singles. I very much hope someone gets on the case of reissuing those Bettye Swann recordings. How difficult can it be?

The Capitol stuff is the best Southern Soul I've heard, which is kind of surprising since it wasn't recorded in the South.

Ahh.. soul Bettys/Bettyes/Betties.

Betty Lavette is the best of all, I think. She too appended an additional 'e' on some of her later recordings (the Motorcity ones, I think).

(Some French label did put out an amazing LP of Betty Lavette's Atlantic / Atco recordings a few years back, most of which were previously unreleased, though I realise no-one except me was talking about her.)

I'll see what I can do re: comp. I have my record collection back! But I don't have a record player that works yet.

The Candi Staton one? No, it was on Honest Jon's Records, West London

IIRC from examing the CD case, it's licensed to HJ's for UK release, yes. But may well have been licensed to other labels elsewhere in Europe.

Bettye Swann -- Bettye Swann (reissue) . . . CD . . . Summer 2004
A treasure of late 60s southern soul from the great Bettye Swann -- 22 tunes cut for Capitol between 1968 and 1970 after she jumped from the indie Money Records! Sadly, the move didn't turn Bettye into the major star Capitol no doubt expected to arise -- and these fantastic tracks were largely unappreciated at the time. This release marks the very first worthy issue of most of this material, thanks to Honest Jon's -- who did a similarly wonderful job rescuing some of the best material ever recorded by Bettye's contemporary Candi Staton! There's an achingly great southern soul feel to these tunes, which range from fragile soul ballads with sweet harmonies and poundingly righteous stompers. The feel is just loose enough, with roomy arrangements that leave plenty of space for Bettye's sweet vocals, but still with the ability to tighten up and pound at the crack of a whip! Masterful lost soul -- and a joy to experience with a reverent reissue! Tracks include "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me?)", "I'm Lonely For You", "Don't Touch Me", "Little Things Mean A Lot", "No Faith No Love", "Ain't That Peculiar", "Tell It Like It Is", "Today I Started Loving You Again" and lots more!

Looking forward to the Bettye Swann Capitol set.

The version of 'Today I Started Loving You Again' on it is more uptempo and not really as good as the 1971 one I had before.

thank you!

Isn't that the Jamie Principle/Frankie Knuckles ripoff one? Or is that one of her other songs?

listening to this on repeat, what should i get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N66FzKFa7Y

nice track. i only know her disco stuff tho. did anyone see that muscle shoals doc? kind of terrible but the footage and music in the first half was pretty awes, like up to about the stones. rest was dreadful though, kind of inadvertently kills the myth of its amazing sound or whatever. also a couple weirdly racist moments like where the son of sun records guy recounts a story about his father looking out onto the cotton fields & having a eureka moment: "their music, so... soulful" *dollar signs pop out of eyes*

for like the past year i thought her name was candi stanton, and even thought the movie poster had a typo on it

*listens to "victim" 100 more times*

Y'all know a more complete overview of the Fame stuff was released on Kent in 2011? 2 CDs. Improved sound. Unreleased tracks. You know what to do.

call the cops?