Name: Telling The Truth
Brand: Willie Wright

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NUM038CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-12-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0825764103824

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Artist

Willie Wright

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

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Numero

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The Numero Group is a Chicago-based record label, dedicated to the preservation and celebration of lesser-known artists. Their exploration spans the globe and reaches deep into the recesses of music history to&nbsp;create compilations of previously released music, reissues of original albums, and creation of album reconstructions from a variety of musical genres.

The label's focus since its 2003 founding has been to research and preserve obscure recorded material and ephemera by artists and entrepreneurs who found little commercial success upon their material's initial release.

deluxe 180 gram lp edition includes a replica 7' of wright's cover of curtis mayfield's 'right on for the darkness' (with his original 'africa' on the flip). over the course of eight years, the numero group has journeyed to scads of tiny island nations in search of rare and previously unknown recordings. this time we kept it a little closer to home, unearthing a soul-folk curiosity on the one-stop light cay of nantucket. by no means a thriving musical community in the 70s or otherwise, the limerick-inducing isle played home to greenwich village folk singer willie wright for a few years, producing his second and final album in the process. born of harlem doo-wop roots and refined by boston's counterculture scene, wright arrived in nantucket in 1976 well worn by two decades of street corner and club performing, eager to make the easy money only a private yacht clientele could guarantee. trapped on the island over winter, a set of original songs poured into his cover-heavy set. tales of wright's native roots, straight life, his abandoned four children, and the many women he had known flooded his loose leaf notebook before finally being set to tape in new york the following spring. tracked with george 'buzzy' bragg and herry jensen (of skull snaps and jimmy castor bunch fame, respectively) in one day with minimal overdubs, telling the truth was, and would remain, willie wright's brightest and most inspired moment. sold from the trunk of a car and from a handful of resort stages, the humble album disappeared into the collections and garages of nantucket tourists, taking what was left of a near-30-year career along with it.

Telling The Truth

Music GB