Bill Swift Trio Featuring Drenda Barnett - Chain Of Fools +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Artist ..... : Bill Swift Trio Featuring Drenda Barnett | | Album ...... : Chain Of Fools | | Year ....... : 2008 | | Label ...... : Jazzman | | Cat.No ..... : JM12.014 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Genre ...... : Funk | | Tracks ..... : 03 | | Duration ... : 12:43 min | | Source ..... : WEB | | Street Date : Feb-01-2008 | | URL ........ : www.discogs.com/release/1257245 | | Webstore URL : http://jazzmanrecords.bandcamp.com | | | | Release Size : 29.2 MB | | Ripping Tool : n/a | | Encoder .... : Lame 3.99.5 | | Quality .... : 320kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo | | Rip Date ... : May-18-2018 | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | | 01. Chain Of Fools 05:00 | | 02. Day Dreamin' 03:41 | | 03. Why Do You Do Me This Way 04:02 | | ----- | | Total: 12:43 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | Here at Jazzman we work 24/7 to uncover the world's rarest and best | | soul, funk'n jazz. We find new things all the time, but it's not often | | that we come across a completely unknown album of such high quality as | | that recorded by the Bill Swift Trio+1. For this 12" EP we've selected | | the best songs - two stunning Aretha Franklin covers and an original | | slice of real deal funky soul that immediately encourages comparison | | to the great Spanky Wilson and Marlena Shaw. And all from a humble | | lounge trio from Texas! The Bill Swift Trio+1 were a supper club act | | who played in a couple of small nightclubs in Fort Worth, Texas in the | | '60s through to the '80s. Unless you happened to have been at local | | hang-outs the Casa Del Sol or the Town Pump at the time it is unlikely | | that you would ever have heard of them - the band never travelled past | | their own city limits. There are countless privately pressed LPs and | | 45s from similar lounge acts such as this that look promising but | | contain little of interest - this is not one of those. Funded by a | | Californian airline pilot who was passing through town and who was | | impressed enough with the band's performances to bankroll a studio | | session, in 1972 the trio teamed up with their regular singer Drenda | | Barnett to cut a whole LP. Consisting mainly of covers of current pop | | and RnB hits, with a few originals thrown in for good measure, the LP | | was pressed to sell at gigs, but unfortunately there wasn't enough | | money to print any covers. A few copies were sold off the bandstand, | | but a coverless album is never easy to sell, and most ended up | | discarded or forgotten. Now newly discovered, the amazing sound of the | | Bill Swift Trio and their amazing vocalist Drenda Barnett has finally | | reached the ears of the world! | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+