PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS… LABELLE
LABELLE BRING MUSIC ‘BACK TO NOW’ (PART 1): New album boasts the legendary sound.
The musical group LaBelle, the avant-garde female trio that melded disco with funk and glam rock, smashed on the urban and pop scene early ’60s and ’70s, but the era of the group never actually ended.
So calling their first album since 1976 a comeback is a little out of sorts. The group, made up of Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash, never said goodbye.
“We’re back together after all these years. It’s been 30-something years since we parted,” LaBelle said. “The album is called ‘Back to Now’. We’re doing some of the back and some of the now and some of the in between.”
”In a way, there was a sense of unfinished business with our fans,” Hendryx added of their parting.
“We left without saying goodbye,” LaBelle said.
“Back to Now” dropped on October 21 and “picks up right where their 1976 “Chameleon” left off,” according to Amazon.com, with the trio’s brand of unprecedented rock-soul-funk. The group’s style is one that could never be categorized, and now the three women have made their mark yet again.
“What sets us aside….
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