Wendy James Biography

They recorded in the South of France, mixed in L.A but it didn't turn out to be the joyful liberation Wendy thought it would be...she bailed.
Transvision had been mainly written by Nick, 'Now ain't .' was written by Elvis . Wendy picked up the guitar and started to write. She bought some equipment and built a home studio. She learned the equipment, the drum machines, the bass ... all of it. She wrote and demo'd and wrote and demo'd until some of the songs were keepers.
She needed a name. Racine. The drag in Chicago where Al Capone had run his prohibition business from . Wendy had walked down Racine on her first trip to Chicago . mmm.

A few days later at Notting Hill Gate she was window gazing in a second hand bookstore and one of her favourite authors' books was on display... 'The Racing World of Damon Runyon'. She got the book. At home a few days later, she misread the sleeve as 'The Racine World' and there it was . Racine . firmly in the front of her mind . the name for all of it . the sound, the style, the look. . all of it. Then a friend told her in the French it meant 'roots'. Fabulous!
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