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• Its been a long time coming, butAfter Laughter Comes Tearsis the first ever anthology of southern soul legend Wendy Rene, whose classic, organ-driven After Laughter (Comes Tears) has been covered or sampled by everyone from Wu Tang Clan (Tearz, from36 Chambers) to Alicia Keys (Where Do We Go From Here), Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar. If I could sing like anyone, said Lykke Li, It would be her.

  Born Mary Frierson in Memphis, Tennessee, home of Stax Records, Wendy Rene was christened by Otis Redding on signing to Stax as a teenager in 1963. Back then, she and brother Johnny Frierson, both singers at the Church of God In Christ, were determined to make it in music. Forming singing quartet The Drapels with two friends, they took the bus to 926 E. McLemore Avenue, auditioned for Stax co-founder Jim Stewa