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Betty Davis- You Won't See Me In The Morning (Jack Frost Edit)

This previously unreleased track from the reissue of the 1973 debut album from Miles Davis' ex-wife (whom he claimed was "too young and wild" for him) is every bit as funky and freaky as you'd imagine. Backed by members of Sly and the Family Stone, Betty's snarling purr is both coquettish and scary. The tracks on this album unravel with shredding guitar solos, pounding rhythms and raw, funky grooves. It's beautiful in its complete raucous abandon.

Betty moved to London around 1971 to pursue her modeling career. She wrote music while in the UK and returned to the US around 1972 with the intention of recording songs with Santana. Instead, she recorded her own songs with a group of West Coast funk musicians. Her first record, Betty Davis, was released in 1973. She had two minor hits on the Billboard R&B chart - "If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up", which reached no. 66 in 1973, and "Shut Off The Lights", which reached no. 97 in 1975. Davis released two more studio albums, They Say I'm Different (1974) and her major label debut on Island Records Nasty Gal (1975). None of the three albums was a commercial success.

Davis remained a cult figure as a singer, due in part to her open sexual attitude, which was controversial for the time. Some of her shows were boycotted and her songs were not played on the radio due to pressure by religious groups and the NAACP. Both Betty Davis and They Say I'm Different were re-released by Seattle's Light in the Attic Records on May 1, 2007. In September 2009, Light in the Attic Records reissued Nasty Gal and her unreleased fourth studio album recorded in 1976, re-titled as Is It Love or Desire?