HTF -- Faith Pillow Self Titled 1981 Vinyl LP EXCELLENT NM- w/ Insert Fast Ship!

Description: Faith Pillow – Faith Pillow Self-Titled Vinyl LP Label:Uncle Tunes Productions – U.T.P. - 001, Uncle Tunes Productions – UTP-001Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, StereoCountry:USRelease: 1981Genre:Jazz, Funk / SoulStyle:Soul, Rhythm & Blues Vinyl is in EXCELLENT condition -- Near Mint Minus. Includes original inner sleeve with photos and lyrics. Cover is sharp VG+ with only minor ring wear. Fast ship from reliabe US seller! Winning bidder to add $7 for MEDIA MAIL shipping in the US. Faith Pillow Bio: Veteran singer/songwriter Faith Pillow is an expressive, talented artist who can handle a wide variety of styles. The Kentucky native, who is blessed with a big voice and an impressive range, has never been easy to categorize. She is comfortable in a soul setting, but she is equally comfortable singing jazz, folk-rock, soft rock, and adult alternative. Pillow has been compared to Joan Armatrading and the underrated Phoebe Snow, and she gives the impression that she has been influenced by everyone from Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack to Carole King and Joni Mitchell. Arguably, Pillow (who is African-American) is a poster child for the Black Rock Coalition, an organization that Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid co-founded with music journalist Greg Tate in 1985 to counter the notion that African-American artists are obligated to embrace urban contemporary 100 percent of the time -- Reid has often asserted that there is no reason why black artists shouldn't perform rock or folk if they are so inclined. Of course, there are plenty of non-black artists who -- from a commercial standpoint -- are too eclectic for their own good. And the fact that Pillow isn't easy to pigeonhole may very well explain why she isn't better-known and hasn't recorded more albums; someone who is capable of singing Antonio Carlos Jobim one minute and Jesse Colin Young the next is the sort of artist who can intimidate the more conservative A&R and marketing people. Born in Louisville, KY, Pillow moved to Kalamazoo, MI, in 1974 and Chicago in 1975. When she was based in the Windy City, Pillow had a variety of gigs. She sang in jazz clubs -- Pillow once opened for the late jazz saxophone master Sonny Stitt at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase -- but she also sang rock, folk, and R&B. In the early '80s, she was a regular at two small clubs on Chicago's North Side: Redford's and Orphan's. The latter is where, in 1981, Pillow recorded her self-titled debut LP, which originally came out on the Uncle Tunes label and was reissued as Live 1981 by Celeste Music (a Japanese label) in 2001. After leaving Chicago in 1982, Pillow spent some time on the West Coast and, in 1993, moved to Europe (where she lived for almost a decade). While living in Amsterdam, Holland, she recorded two studio albums for the Dutch market: Sanity in 1995 and Run in the Sunshine in 1998. Both of them came out on the Fantabulous label in the Netherlands and have never been released in the United States. In 2000, Pillow moved back to Louisville and remains musically active in her hometown.

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