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Female Species promo photo, 1969
Vicki and Ronni Gossett are in an enviable position. A well-respected indie label recently released their debut album
Tale of My Lost Love. The all-female surf band La Luz covered the title track. Another song, âSooner or Later,â has appeared in an episode of the NBC sitcom
Young Rock, with more film and TV placements in the pipeline.Â
âAnd [the label] told us themselves that this really has never happened,â Ronni tells the
Scene, âthat theyâve got so many [placements] without even having the album come out, because this stuff was happening fast.â
Like so many apparent overnight successes, the sistersâ rise â impressive by any metric â was a long time coming. Whatâs unusual, though, is that it has been more than 50 years in the making. The Gossetts started a garage band in California in the 1960s that morphed into a Las Vegas show band. Eventually, they embarked on a new