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01. Marie Queenie Lyons - See And Don't See
02. Marie Queenie Lyons - Daddy's House
03. Marie Queenie Lyons - You Used Me
04. Marie Queenie Lyons - Your Thing Ain't No Good Without My Thing
05. Marie Queenie Lyons - Snake In The Grass
06. Marie Queenie Lyons - Your Key Don't Fit It Anymore
07. Marie Queenie Lyons - Fever
08. Marie Queenie Lyons - I Don't Want Nobody To Have It But You
09. Marie Queenie Lyons - We'll Cry Together
10. Marie Queenie Lyons - I'll Drown In My Dreams
11. Marie Queenie Lyons - I Want My Freedom
12. Marie Queenie Lyons - Try Me
ARTIST
TITLE
Soul Fever
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAMPI 291LP VAMPI 291LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/19/2024

It is perhaps apropos that Queenie Marie Lyons's best known song is titled "See And Don't See." For all the acclaim that song has accrued, and all the times it has been compiled, reissued and bootlegged, Queenie herself has somehow remained unseen. How did a singer from Ashtabula, Ohio record one of the great female-led soul albums and then simply fall off the map, never to record or perform again? While on tour with James Brown for only a month or so, when the group reached Cincinnati in mid-'68 she entered the King Records studio there to record what would become Soul Fever. The songs were a combination of covers, some of which she'd been doing in her live shows, like "Fever" and "Try Me," and originals written by producer Henry Glover and pianist Don Pullen, who was the bandleader on the session. The album opener, "See And Don't See," was also recorded by the veteran R&B singer Maxine Brown, but Queenie's version blows hers away. Soul Fever is a supremely funky and soulful affair, with Queenie's powerful and captivating voice magnetically attractive, with an urgency that is impossible to ignore. "Your Thing Ain't No Good Without My Thing," "Your Key Don't Fit It Anymore," and "I Don't Want Nobody To Have It But You" are as funky and soulful as the best of Tina Turner and Aretha -- a statement not to be made lightly! The album was critically acclaimed -- the October 10, 1970, issue of Billboard listed it as their sole "four star" pick in the soul category -- but perhaps due to the tumult at Starday-King, whose stewardship had turned over several times in only a few years, it never seemed to be able to break through to a larger audience.