Blue-eyed soul singers

[jazzboCR]

Let's give the women some props, so here's Lydia Pense and Tracey Nelson.
Lydia Pense If there were any justice in the world, everybody would forget that Texas thief/poseur (the initials are JJ) and remember her. Bad management, bad publicity, not enough "push" by the band--who knows? But what they left us with * is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nit9gSsLHg << Go ahead and talk all that stuff about East Bay Grease...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLb6rUZlJ7A << ...West Bay (SF and Marin County) folks got serious chops and serious feeling. Some wig-spinning stuff for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQYV9njOu4 << They build this song so well...

* They haven't left us--a California tour in '14 + and East Coast excursion--see this for details: http://www.lydiapense.com/TourSchedule.html

Tracy Nelson The original Earth Mother; the pride of MadTown Wisconsin (aka Madison, the state capitol):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThhOewiZWu8 << Gospel, of a kind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0LuJa3adRw << Another'n from back in the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8u6t--n8Q << trading choruses with Irma Thomas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyuh4wksuCg << Ms. Bramlett will appear in another post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOGlIYtWvy0