{"id":3323,"date":"2016-01-20T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/gloria-ann-taylor-love-is-a-hurtin-thing-2lp-12\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:48:07","slug":"gloria-ann-taylor-love-is-a-hurtin-thing-2lp-12","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/gloria-ann-taylor-love-is-a-hurtin-thing-2lp-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Ann Taylor &#8211; Love Is A Hurtin&#8217; Thing &#8211; LP + 12&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst much anticipation from collectors, record stores, DJs and producers alike,\u00a0<strong>Gloria Ann Taylor<\/strong>\u2019s musical output on\u00a0<strong>Selector Sound<\/strong>\u00a0finally gets an official reissue.<\/p>\n<p>Soul singer\u00a0<strong>Gloria Ann Taylor<\/strong>\u00a0has no rags to riches tale to tell. Her story is one of personal sacrifice, failed relationships, and missed opportunity. She was leading a hard knock life before being swept-up by the flash and promise of a marriage and business partnership with a successful record producer. She would be nominated for a Grammy, rub shoulders with James Brown and Bootsy Collins, and turn heads from Motown. But in the end she rejected professional singing, the music business, and the lifestyle that came with it. Thankfully for music lovers, before Gloria closed the doors on her singing career, she left us with some amazing soul songs. Deeply shaded by gospel roots, her haunting sound clearly comes from the gut. Gloria did not fake the funk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gloria<\/strong>\u00a0was a partial owner of the Selector Sounds label, along with her husband\/producer Walter Whisenhunt (previously a right-hand man to James Brown), and her brother Leonard. They released five Gloria Taylor singles between 1971 and 1977. They also released the three-song Deep Inside You EP, under the name Gloria Ann Taylor and Walter Whisenhunt\u2019s Orchestra. In the studio Whisenhunt would work up a unique musical brew that mixed northern soul with exotic percussion and fuzzy psychedelic guitars. He moved Gloria through a range of tempos and stylings from ballads to disco. Her gritty vocal performance was set to orchestral arrangements creating a juxtaposition of grandeur and solace. The pinnacle of their collaborations has to be the jaw-droppingly epic EP version of\u00a0<strong>\u201cLove Is a Hurting Thing\u201d<\/strong>; a chugging, string-laden disco track, that sounds like proto-Theo Parrish. (excerpt from liner notes by Andrew Jervis)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luv N&#8217; Haight<\/strong>\u00a0provides you with the opportunity to get up close and personal\u00a0with the life and work of this unspoken diva!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luv N&#8217;Haight<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Amidst much anticipation from collectors, record stores, DJ\u2019s and producers alike <strong>Gloria Ann Taylo<\/strong>r\u2019s musical output on <strong>Selector Sound<\/strong> have been compiled and presented in a deluxe triple-gatefold 180 Gram double LP and premium CD digipak complete with photos and extensive liner notes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luv N&#8217; Haight<\/strong> provides you with the opportunity to get up close and personal\u00a0with the life and work\u00a0of this unspoken diva!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FiEfXefmrkE\" target=\"_blank\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[1248,869,1247],"class_list":{"0":"post-3323","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-gloria-ann-taylor","7":"product_tag-love-is-a-hurtin-thing","8":"product_tag-luv-nhaight","9":"product_shipping_class-lp","10":"pa_artist-gloria-ann-taylor","11":"pa_genre-funk","12":"pa_genre-soul","13":"pa_label-luv-nhaight","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}