Nona Hendryx - Nona

Before moving off to a solo career, Nona Hendryx was one third of the R&B girl-group Labelle. In the mid-1970’s she went solo and released a number of records. One of them, 1983’s Nona celebrated its thirtieth anniversary back in March of this year. Her second solo studio album, it climbed to number 83 on the US Billboard Album chart and number 25 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

Kenny G - G Force

Following his self-titled 1982 release (click here for that review), Kenny G hit the charts again in February of 1983 with his second studio album G Force. This one went to number 56 in the UK, number 62 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 17 on the US Billboard R&B chart and number 6 on the US Billboard Jazz chart.

As with his first album, the vinyl release and the CD release of this one had differing cover art. Trying to keep things here on the blog as old-school as possible, I opted to use the original vinyl release artwork for this post. In my opinion, it has a more 80's feel to it.