Thursday 19 March 2009

Family Of Eve - Please Be Truthful


















First appearing into collectors wants list after appearing on Keb Darges's first Legendary Deep Funk compilation the Family Of Eve originated from Pittsburgh, USA and released their debut 7" single on Jeree Records circa 1979/80 and a limited 50 copy blue vinyl repress on Full Sail Records shortly after. They also released a follow up single on Full Sail called Having It So Bad/I Don't Want To Pay and that is all the extent of the information i can find online about them.

Incredibly rare and collectable the songs have also the bonus of being superb tight pieces of soul which is realised in the prices the rare copies that have entered the market have sold for. The Jeree 7" has gone for $825 online and the Full Sail $565. Even the 2006 repress on
Lotus Land Records regularly goes for $40+ but the cheapest way to pick it up is on the BBE release from 1998 which shouldn't set you back more than £10.

A
repress on the Full Sail label (I'm not sure if this is genuine or a bootleg) appeared in 2007 but this contains a different extended version of the track and I haven't been able to track down a sound file to compare.

A final note is that it is a true crime against music that a track this good with a singer and musicians at the top of their game made no indent into the scene at the time when it is clearly obvious that this would have kicked the shit out of 99% of any other chart release. It has taken over 20 years for this to find its market and still 99% of the listening public probably couldn't give a damn.


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