Prince’s generosity to female artists extended beyond just doling out songs for them to sing to having them in his own band as important parts of his sound. After Sheila E, his most famous alumni are probably guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboard player Lisa Coleman who were in The Revolution until Prince broke up the band in 1986.
Leaving a God-like genius and going it alone is often a recipe for disaster but Wendy and Lisa’s self-titled debut album is marvelous and a real hidden treasure of the 1980s. Though Prince had nothing to do with the album it does share some of the sophisticated and bright, daisy-age vibe of his more poppy songs but, free to do their own thing, the girls also show off their musical chops in a more Jazzy direction on some tracks.
Another ex-Revolution member Bobby Z helps out on songwriting and drumming so the album is like Prince’s old band showing him what they could do without him. I hope he missed them because he never had a band as good as The Revolution again.
Download: Honeymoon Express – Wendy & Lisa (mp3)
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Wendy and Lisa also had big input into Neil Finn’s One Nil album, which is pretty spiffy.
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Love a few Wendy and Lisa songs. The Orb remix of Staring at the sun is ace.
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Have to check those out
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