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Does anyone know much about Barbara Stant?
Just discovered Barbara Stant on a Spotify playlist but can't find much information about her. There is only one album on there and Discogs is only showing some features. Google is coming up with a big goose egg as well.
Just curious as to whether anyone has any info about her history.
I love old soul music and this piqued my curiosity, so I decided to do some digging... which turned up this article from 2012 on Barbara Stant, the history of Shiptown Records, and the black music scene in 1960s-70s Norfolk that centered around it: https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-articles/barbara-stant-unsatisfied-woman-r2582/
It seems like it should answer most of the questions you might have, including what became of her (as of 2009):
Also found a couple more articles related to Shiptown records that you might find interesting as well:
Local record label is looking for new talent
The Norfolk Sound
Edit: Sadly, it looks like the efforts at reviving Shiptown Records eventually failed, as the site dedicated to it is now defunct. Waybackmachine has a snapshot of it, but unfortunately not much of it was actually archived... not even the History page, which I would have loved to read. :(
Wow! Thank you so much for the info. When I first heard her I thought for sure she would be pretty popular but looks like she never found the spotlight.
I really enjoyed the music she put out though.
Thanks for your time.
NP! I love soul music, history and a good challenge, so it was fun for me. :)
And yeah, I really enjoyed her album too, so it makes me sad she didn't make it big as well. :(