The missing link between her Barry and_x000B_Columbia singles, "I Can’t Stand It" b/w "Only_x000B_Yesterday" is Thelma Jones with her back against_x000B_the wall of an empty and indifferent Holiday_x000B_Inn lounge and nothing to lose. Washed out of_x000B_the recording business by the age of 30, Jones_x000B_and her then-husband/manager James Hazley_x000B_relocated to Tampa to work the hotel circuit and_x000B_figure out what - if anything - was next. Following_x000B_a chance encounter with Blair Mooney, Jones was_x000B_invited to workshop a few stray originals at his_x000B_Studio 70 compound in 1972. "He seemed to_x000B_believe in me more than I did at the time,"Jones_x000B_remembered of the Tampa studio impresario._x000B_Jones signed with Columbia a few years later_x000B_and hightailed it out of The Big Guava, leaving_x000B_two sides of country-politan soul on the shelf to_x000B_be forgotten about. This Eccentric Soul 45 is a_x000B_first time issue, carrying the banner of Mooney's_x000B_Gimp label and mastered directly from the_x000B_original analog tapes.
