Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon

Simply call Carol Fran and her spouse Clarence Hollimon the brand new sweethearts from the blues. Not merely are they a coosome twosome off-stage, the set share unusual empathy on-stage aswell. The couple 1st fulfilled in 1957 in New Orleans. Fran was a winsome Louisiana chanteuse having a Gulf Coastline strike on Excello, “Emmitt Lee,” to her credit; Hollimon was a fiery youthful acoustic guitar slinger who experienced supported Big Mama Thornton on the highway before playing sizzling solos on a lot of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s traditional waxings for Duke. But like wasn’t in the credit cards just after that. In 1983, destiny brought the set back collectively at a Houston nightclub, and they are an enchanting item since. Two albums on Dark Top, Soul Feeling in 1992 and find out There! 2 yrs later, possess cemented their musical bonds. Fran toured with bandleader Joe Lutcher when she was only 15 years of age in 1949. Famed maker J.D. Miller was behind the table when Carol Fran cut “Emmitt Lee” in Crowley, LA, in 1957. Her later on waxings for Slot and additional diskeries tended toward the R&B part from the stylistic songs. Fran’s soulful 1965 reading of “Crying in the Chapel” was smashed by Elvis Presley’s contending version. In the mean time, Hollimon became a studio room stalwart, playing on edges by Bland, Junior Parker, Joe Hinton, and a bunch of others. Nothing at all substantial have been noticed from Fran or Hollimon ahead of their starting up with Dark Top just a few years back. Lucky in music and in like, they certainly are a flexible duo. She sings jazzy ballads as convincingly as swinging R&B, and Hollimon’s fleet fingertips are conversant with just about any chord development that you can buy.