Until 1999's
Free Soul
(
Capitol
) and 2001's exhaustive but more excellent overall
Petals
The Right Stuff
) came along,
Capitol Gold
offered the best summation of this true original's horribly undervalued solo career. As with
,
leaves a significant gap by excluding the best moments from
Minnie Riperton
's debut (
Come to My Garden
), an album that was released on
GTR
. This issue would be rectified by
, a subsidiary of
, for
. Still,
makes for a fine substitute introduction to
Riperton
; it includes all of her significant singles and a good survey of album tracks that didn't receive the notice they deserved when they were originally released. ~ Andy Kellman