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Willie Wright — Telling The Truth

Willie Wright — Telling The Truth

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Limited Edition Nantucket Blue color vinyl / Repress Reissue / Numero Group #038 / Pressed in 2022 / Available for the first time since 1977, pressed by Numero Group in 2011; this expanded edition of northeast black troubadour Willie Wright's Telling The Truth album gathers his first LP to tell the definitive Willie Wright story. Born of Harlem doo-wop roots and refined by Boston’s counterculture scene, Willie 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.

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