Hightower

Still quite hard to get hold of, Rosetta Hightower’s debut album from 1970 is well worth picking up if you can grab a copy. She’s a tough, powerful singer and the material here ranges from sensitive ballads and mid-tempo soul to high-energy hybrid soul/funk, all played expertly by a crack session band. It remains both inexplicable and a shame that absolutely cooking funky-soul tracks from Hightower like ‘Rocking Chair’ and ‘One Thousand Nine Hundred And Seventy Years’ are not more well known.