As noted in our year-end wrap up, Numero Group consistently earns points for hipping a wider audience to artists and sounds they didn’t yet know they were missing. And when it comes to reissue labels you really cannot ask for more. Latest case in point: Willie Wright’s Telling The Truth. From Wright’s label bio we learn he cut his teeth on the Harlem doo-wop scene before heading north to Boston. From there Wright landed in Nantucket in 1976 eventually hawking Telling The Truth from the back of his car. Thirty plus years later Numero Group resurrected the LP, which dropped this past Tuesday.
Check out Wright’s homage to the island below. I love the juxtaposition between the Caribbean flavor and the island’s decidedly non-Caribbean geographic locale.
MP3: Willie Wright :: Nantucket Island
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great post. really like the soft, smooth feeling…
1 | tuck me in January 29th, 2011 at 2:19 pmThanks for a lot of great post lately!!
The vivian girls girl!
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2 | Satisfied '75 February 2nd, 2011 at 4:18 amClassical, this is true soul music, good lookin’.
cheers
3 | Sound Verite' February 10th, 2011 at 8:19 amSmoother than a Courvoisier-baby oil cocktail…
4 | Mahgeetah February 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am[...] singer Willie Wright. Wright was based out of Nantucket and has had his album and this song rescued from obscurity by the Numero Group. As with everything Curtis Mayfield wrote, the lyrics are still relevant and [...]
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