Wanda Robinson meets Black Ivory
Marv emailed asking if we knew of an old record that used Black Ivory's 'Don't Turn Around' as the music behind some spoken word lyrics, so here's some info on Wanda Robinson's recordings on the Perception label (the parent label to Black Ivory's first home 'Today Records').
It wasn't uncommon for artists on Today and Perception Records to cover each others tunes. Label-mates J.J. Barnes, The Eight Minutes, Debbie Taylor & Lucky Peterson all covered Black Ivory tunes.
Wanda Robinson was a 'jazz-poet' who released 2 LPs on Perception Records. The first, 1971's 'Black Ivory' included the tracks 'Instant Replay' (which used the instrumental version of Black Ivory's 'I Keep Asking You Questions' as the music bed for one of her poems), and 'The Final Hour' (which used another Black Ivory track 'Don't Turn Around').
