Wendy Rene, After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965

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2LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2012

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    TRACKLIST

    A1 –Wendy Rene Bar-B-Q

    A2 –Wendy Rene Gone For Good

    A3 –The Drapels Your Love Is All I Need

    A4 –Wendy Rene After Laughter Comes Tears

    A5 –Wendy Rene I Wish I Were That Girl

    A6 –Wendy Rene What Will Tomorrow Bring

    B1 –The Drapels Wondering (When My Love Is Coming Home)

    B2 –Wendy Rene Deep In My Heart

    B3 –Wendy Rene Give You What I Got

    B4 –Wendy Rene Crying All By Myself

    B5 –Wendy Rene Crowded Park

    B6 –Wendy Rene Last Love

    C1 –Wendy Rene Love At First Sight

    C2 –Wendy Rene She's Moving Away

    C3 –Wendy Rene He Hasn't Failed Me Yet

    C4 –The Drapels Please Don't Leave Me

    C5 –Wendy Rene The Same Guy

    D1 –The Drapels Young Man

    D2 –Wendy Rene Can't Stay Away

    D3 –Wendy Rene First Kiss

    D4 –Wendy Rene Reap What You Sow

    D5 –Wendy Rene Young And Foolish


    DESCRIPTION

    First ever anthology of Southern soul legend Wendy Rene

    11 singles, 9 rarities + 2 unreleased songs

    Notes by Andria Lisle interviewing Wendy Rene

    Unseen photos and original label art

    Double LP housed in gatefold “tip-on” jacket

    Glorious mono sound restored and remastered from the original tapes


    It’s been a long time coming, but After Laughter Comes Tears is the first ever anthology of southern soul legend Wendy Rene, whose classic, organ-driven “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” has been covered or sampled by everyone from Wu Tang Clan (“Tearz”, from 36 Chambers) to Alicia Keys (“Where Do We Go From Here”), Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar. “If I could sing like anyone,” said Lykke Li, “It would be her.”

    Born Mary Frierson in Memphis, Tennessee, home of Stax Records, Wendy Rene was christened by Otis Redding on signing to Stax as a teenager in 1963. Back then, she and brother Johnny Frierson, both singers at the Church of God In Christ, were determined to make it in music. Forming singing quartet The Drapels with two friends, they took the bus to 926 E. McLemore Avenue, auditioned for Stax co-founder Jim Stewart, and won a deal on the spot. “As soon as we finished with the Drapels’ songs and [the rest of the band] were going to the bus stop, I showed Mr. Stewart my songs,” recalls Rene. The result? Stewart found two acts in one, and Mary had two contracts with Stax.

    Both Drapels and Wendy began recording with the greats – that’s The MGs on the group’s “Young Man”, Booker T. Jones playing organ on “After Laughter” and Steve Cropper playing guitar on the dance craze-inspired “Bar-B-Q”, the success of which caused Wendy – then a teen bride – to leave school.

    The Drapels dissolved almost as quickly as Wendy’s first marriage, partly due to the attention lavished on youngest member Wendy’s solo career. But a real hit eluded the singer, and in 1967, with a growing family with second husband and Stax employee James Cross, Wendy decided to retire from the business. “I wanted a baby to hold and coochie-coo to, and I didn’t want to miss any more time away from my kids,” she says.

    Wendy was due to perform one last show with Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays, but changed her mind at the last minute. It was an auspicious decision – that weekend, Redding and four Bar-Kays died when their plane crashed in Lake Monona.

    Mary mourned her friends but not her music career. She taught harmony to her children and she sang in church, not in the studio. Then, in 1993, something strange happened – a friend of her son heard Wu Tang Clan’s “Tearz” on the radio. As new generations of artists have rediscovered Wendy Rene’s work, they have touched her life in various ways: Alicia Keys’s remake of “After Laughter…”, “Where Do We Go From Here”, for example, helped pay for her current home. Keys tried to meet up with Rene when she played in Memphis. “I wasn’t able to do it,” says Wendy, revealing little.

    In September 2010, Wendy Rene returned to live performance, albeit very briefly, playing a set at Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans. It was to be a bittersweet occasion – Wendy’s beloved brother Johnny had died suddenly in June 2010 and performing brought back a flood of memories. “I was so choked up I wasn’t able to perform like I wanted,” she admits. Though her career was brief, Wendy Rene left behind a thrilling catalogue of classic soul. Here, Light In The Attic gives it the archive treatment it richly deserves. Listen, delve and enjoy.