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THE SISTERS LOVE
Give Me Your Love Soul Jazz ***

So many soul and funk troopers have fallen through the cracks that the hard-working folks at Soul Jazz could spend all their time just reviving fortunes and rewriting histories. The Sisters Love (nee The Raelets when they were backing Ray Charles), may have had plenty of killer tunes to their credit, but they didn't have much in the way of luck. Indeed, despite spells on A&M and Motown's MoWest labels, the Sisters were best known as a name to drop by disco and funk crate-diggers and rare groovers. That changed a little when Danny Krivit used their version of Curtis Mayfield's Give Me Your Love to send tremors through his dancefloor, but it has taken this anthology to get a better handle on their output and standing as disco queens with a soulful purr. The Sisters had their pick of producers (Gloria Jones, Gene Chandler, Richard Evans and Willie Hutch all worked with them) and songs, so it's little surprise that Give Me Your Love is so awash with snap and bustle. Jim Carroll

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