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APPLE & THE THREE ORANGES (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	What Goes Around Comes Around
2	Free & Easy Pt. 1
3	Free & Easy Pt. 2
4	Down Home Publicity
5	True Love Will Never Die
6	My Baby
7	Love Brings Out the Best of You
8	Curse Upon the World
9	Moon Light
10	Gotta Stand for Something Pt. 1
11	Gotta Stand for Something Pt. 2
12	My Love Needs Your Love (And Everybody Needs Love)
13	I'll Give You a Ring (When I Come, If I Come)

Editorial Reviews

Edward "Apple" Nelson is best known for the small clutch of 45s he released under the Apple and The Three Oranges name on local Los Angeles labels in the 1970s. He first found credit as "Apple" on a Marie Franklin single released on disc jockey Douglas Moore's Stage Music imprint. He would engage Moore to issue "Free And Easy", the first record released as Apple and The Three Oranges. This rapid development from road hog to recording artist inspired him to found Sagittarius Records, named after his zodiac sign. His run with Sagittarius contains six unimpeachable soul and funk numbers released under the Apple and The Three Oranges banner and one issued under his own name, Ed. (sic) Nelson. These songs, and his prior recordings, are ripe for a historical reappraisal. Monday's manic rant relegated "What Goes Around Comes Around" to the funk freak show, but Nelson's introductory 12 bars contain some of the most unique funk drumming ever cut to lacquer. The low fidelity of every Apple and The Three Oranges single was never a problem for the low-riding Eastside Angelenos, who lionized tracks such as "True Love Will Never Die", but their muddy quality cast Nelson outside of the canon in which troubled soul singers like Bobby Womack have held court for decades. Nelson's master tapes lost in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina will never surface to right this wrong. And the records themselves are rare: the "Love Brings Out The Best Of You", "Curse Upon The World" and "I'll Give You A Ring (When I Come, If I Come)" singles are amongst the most sought after and expensive Los Angeles soul and funk records to ever list at auction. Thus, we are privileged to present Nelson's complete works in our Free and Easy anthology. Nearly forty years after he gave up on his recording career, we're left with little more than Nelson s explosive music and his straight-shooting stories of his life's arc. The fact that he can't explain his life's contradictions are what makes the extensive interview contained in Free and Easy's book a compelling read. Whether it's his first hand experience with the great New Orleans drummers who laid the foundations of funk, or his relating the oft-told, and always sad, tale of lust supplanting love, Nelson offers confounding words to complement his all too beautiful soul and funk music.