Wendy Rene, After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volts Singles & Rarities  
Wendy Rene
After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volts Singles & Rarities
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Label: light in the attic
Release Year: 2012
Style: Funk & Soul
 
  Tracks  
  # 1. Bar B Q - Wendy Rene
# 2. Gone For Good - Wendy Rene
# 3. Your Love Is All I Need - The Drapels
# 4. After Laughter (Comes Tears) - Wendy Rene
# 5. I Wish I Were That Girl - Wendy Rene
# 6. What Will Tomorrow Bring - Wendy Rene
# 7. Wondering (When My Love Is Coming Home) - The Drapels
# 8. Deep In My Heart - Wendy Rene
# 9. Give You What I Got - Wendy Rene
# 10. Crying All By Myself - Wendy Rene
# 11. Crowded Park - Wendy Rene
# 12. Last Love - Wendy Rene
# 13. Love At First Sight - Wendy Rene
# 14. She's Moving Away - Wendy Rene
# 15. He Hasn't Failed Me Yet - Wendy Rene
# 16. Please Don't Leave Me - The Drapels
# 17. The Same Guy - Wendy Rene
# 18. Young Man - The Drapels
# 19. Can't Stay Away - Wendy Rene
# 20. First Kiss - Wendy Rene
# 21. Reap What You Sow - Wendy Rene
# 22. Young And Foolish - Wendy Rene
 
  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.

* 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
 
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