EVIE SANDS?!

By the way, her teeny-bop should-have-been-hits of the sixties (the first, best, and least-heard version of Angel of the Morning etc) are just part of her story, and not the most important part. Her last CD, Women in Prison, came out in 1999 - her first recording in about twenty years. I just got it off Amazon - extracts don't do it justice. Everyone knows the old saying about women, like wine, improving with age, but this might be the first thing that's made me whole-heartedly believed it. These are the juiciest, most passionate, shameless and involving songs I've heard in years. They make all the supposedly hot girl singers around today seem like hard unripe tasteless little fruits. Evie's voice is unique - warm, intelligent, womanly, full of character, authentically bluesly. Like everything else she'd ever recorded, "Women in Prison" (on a tiny label) fell through the cracks of the corporate music world and went almost entirely unheard and therefore unbought. Her reputation is sky-high among other singers and perceptive critics - it just never reached the rest of us. It was only from trying to track down information about "Angel of the Morning" versions that I recently discovered she exists.