Barbara Stant - My Mind Holds Onto YesterdayEventually crowned Queen of the Norfolk Sound, Barbara Stant was just a teenager when she auditioned for Shiptown impresario Noah Biggs in 1970. A dozen sides were tracked throughout the decade, producing a body of work that stretched from deep soul to northern soul to sister funk. By 1978 disco was in overdrive, Noah Biggs was in the ground, and Stants career on hold. My Mind Holds Onto Yesterday is what remains. Available on Shiptown Clear vinyl

generally at a frenetic pace

The first ever jazz album to sell a million copies in America and embracing time signatures that were unusual for the genre at the time

he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey

and dancing piano

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who graced numerous album covers for The Ohio Players in the 1970s

“We were really starting to find ourselves in the studio

little else comes close

With Where This Leads

Both the Cheap Trick fans as the rock lover in general will need this document of the band’s most celebrated concert

but it also marks moments of empowerment and a real happiness in discovering my own capability

And as he lets out a moan atop the album’s title track