Wendy Moten: Country/Western Pure and Simple

I'll bet this has happened to you. You're searching for a song and come across one that stops you in your tracks...melody, tempo, evocative voice, an old-fashioned, unadorned country ballad.

Today's rabbit hole... an artist I've never heard of, Wendy Moten.

Till I Get It Right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qknOC6A-M

Pure voice, piercing lyrics sung in a simple time tested uncluttered arrangement, laptop steel, guitar, percussion, bass.

These lyrics are so country classic. I warn you, you're going to play this a few times in a row.

"I'll just keep on fallin' in love til I get it right
Right now I'm like a wounded bird hungry for the sky
But if I try my wings and try long enough
I'm bound to learn to fly
So I'll just keep on fallin' in love til I get it right

My door to love has opened out more times than in
And I'm either fool or wise enough to open it again
Cause I'll never know what's beyond the mountain til I reach
The other side
So I'll just keep on fallin' in love til I get it right

If practice makes perfect then I'm near bout as perfect as I'll ever
Be in my life
So I'll just keep on fallin' in love til I get it right."

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Larry Henley / Red Lane

Tammy Wynette recorded the song in 1972. At the time, it was Wynette's 12th number one song.

Another show stopper, I played this a few times in a row too.

"Each Time Yoiu Touch Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0H1BSepdo

Both sung in the style of the greats...Tammy, Loretta, Patsy...but not in the color of their skin...Wendy Motin is Black.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/wendy-moten-mn0000247691/biography

MORE

https://musikandfilm.com/wendy-motens-country-ep-produced-by-vince-gill-ive-got-you-covered-1-2/

Whoa...any singer who can croon "Till I Get It Right" in classic C/W style and belt out Aretha's "Freeway of Love" has something special going on.