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LABELLE BRING MUSIC ‘BACK TO NOW’ (PART 2): Pioneering trio’s drops new
album
LaBelle, the female trio that offered up funk/soul/pop music that
laced the airwaves in the ‘60s and ‘70s has returned with a new album
called “Back to Now.”
The group’s sound, melding the famed R&B/gospel poeticism of Patti
LaBelle, rock antics of Nona Hendryx, and the soul sensibilities of
Sarah Dash, is just as we left it 30 years ago, but reignited and
retrofitted for the now.
The dynamic vocalists’ powerful songs and harmonies mirror the
energized multi-genre sound they brought to music three decades ago, but
similarly, their lyrics echo the past and are quite relevant today.
“The music that we did then was political, and now – it wasn’t
intentional – but we have four songs that are very political,” group
member Patti LaBelle described. “We’re almost at the place we were years
ago. When you hear some of the song, you’ll thing that we wrote them
purposely to go along with what is happening now. So it’s back and it’s
now. It’s very timely.”
The timeliness and timelessness of the group is particularly
evident in the new disc. It features production by legendary music maker
team Gamble & Huff and by contemporary greats Wyclef Jean and Lenny
Kravitz. Though the disc marks the return of the pulsating trio, it is
not actually a comeback, the ladies explained….
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