It’s hard to ignore a band named Hot Sauce. I found Bring It Home (And Give It To Me) (1972) on a Stax compilation. The catches your
ear immediately, the vocal cadence sounds like Amy Winehouse at her best. The
singer is Rhonda Washington and she is in fantastic form for the rest of
the song:
Hot Sauce Although it appeared on Stax compilations, Hot
Sauce actually recorded on Volt, a subsidiary label based in Detroit. In
reality, Hot Sauce is just Rhonda Washington, I can find little to no record of
the backing band, and Washington herself disappears after Stax goes bankrupt in
1975. It seems that the record was produced by Al Perkins (not to be confused
with the guitarist), a Detroit based, Memphis born, radio DJ. After a bit more
digging, it turns out this is actually a cover of a Na Allen song:
As you can tell, the arrangement is almost identical. But
while Allen’s recording is a straight forward soul song, Hot Sauce’s is
incredible
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