Sony Legacy
2008
Live In Washington D.C.
About This Album
Live in Washington, D.C. serves up nearly 80 nonstop minutes with all the energy and attitude that define Patti LaBelle in performance. The venerable R&B diva -- heard here in front of a very responsive crowd -- is captured on the road supporting her then most recent long-player, 1982's The Spirit's in It. That early-'80s project marked LaBelle's multi-album run on Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records label. And according to their liner notes essay, it was in Gamble & Huff's tape vault that this concert has languished for the better part of three decades. The ensemble backing LaBelle includes her longtime musical director and keyboardist, James "Budd" Ellison, who leads the musicians through a thoughtfully chosen sampling of selections ranging from material from her concurrent effort and reaching all the way back to the days when she was the namesake of the glam-funk trio simply named LaBelle, alongside Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash. The artist pumps every ounce of her musical being into the riveting and edgy update of the chart-topping "Lady Marmalade." Likewise, the LaBelle ballad "Isn't It a Shame" retains all the command of the original.
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