You know an artist is criminally overlooked when her own label can't even spell her name. I've just realised that I've mentally been adding a superfluous P to 'Minnie Riperton' on account of this glaring typo on my copy of her incredible 1970 album Come To My Garden. Give it a listen. Both Riperton and her producer Charles Stepney, pioneer of the 'chamber soul' sound, died too young (Riperton at 32, Stepney at 45) but they certainly left wonderful, strange, enriching music behind.
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