Betty Wright & The Roots.

[bubinga5]

Think this a great album. Betty Wright's 'Clean up Woman is a classic. this stuff with the Roots is cracking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWd-5xZoyYk

great bass playing throughout her stuff.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyZGUByIN6A

[JapanAxe]

Bowie's band Tin Machine had a track called 'Betty Wrong' on their second album. Not sure of the link, if any...

EDIT: Went a bit OT there. I agree, lovely bass playing. Which album - The Movie?

Edited December 23, 2013 by JapanAxe

[BetaFunk]

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Think this a great album. Betty Wright's 'Clean up Woman is a classic. this stuff with the Roots is cracking.
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They got Betty Wright in to mentor Joss Stone when she went to the U.S. to record her 1st album with Miami soul musicians Timmy Thomas, Little Beaver etc. However decent a singer Joss is she's no Betty Wright. Great singer.

[bubinga5]

Cant say i really dig Joss Stone's voice, or music.. interesting facts though BF

[yorks5stringer]

Owen Biddle on Bass 'though he's left the Roots now.
Betty Wright is S Curve Records and was heavily involved with Diane Birch's first album " Bible Belt" too. Thanks for the recommend, will buy with my Xmas money..!

[BetaFunk]

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Cant say i really dig Joss Stone's voice, or music.. interesting facts though BF
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Me neither but she had some great musicians on that 1st album which made it really. I think that Betty Wright co-produced it and with Benny Latimore and those other Miami session musicians she couldn't go wrong.

Here's Benny Latimore. One the great soul voices of the 70s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfpofKEzTE

[BetaFunk]

Here's another Miami musician on that JS album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReDe5-rTIU
That fretless Fender Jazz Bass sounds familiar. Sounds like someone has ripped the frets out with a pair of pliers.

[molan]

I had two tickets to see her at the Jazz Cafe - I couldn't make it and offered them up here and via a FaceBook page with 6,500 followers.

No interest whatsoever, literally couldn't give 'em away

[Cat Burrito]

I discovered Betty Wright back in the early 90s and have been a fan ever since. My concern was that the Roots album would be a bit too modern for me but the streamed samples on Amazon sound brilliant.

[BetaFunk]

This thread is making me feel very old. I heard this in 1971 before Clean Up Woman was released. Amazing maturity in her singing for 16-year-old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHjBSfZrz7I