By Jordan Green
December 29, 2016
"But the one I keep coming back to is Betty Harris, a Floridian who I stumbled across on Pandora. She only charted three times in the ’60s before retiring from the music business in 1970, but to my ear her songs are unparalleled for emotional texture, kaleidoscopic mood setting, stylistic boldness and sheer, gutsy performance. An early single — a slowed-down cover of the country-soul-R&B amalgam “Cry to Me” — goes deeper into the abyss than the original by Solomon Burke, if that’s even possible. After that, she recorded for the Sansu label with New Orleans producer par excellence Allen Toussaint." Read the rest of the Article HERE