Tolliver and Briggs adopted a similar production approach to Kim’s own first album, which was cut in a variety of southern studios during 1971.  Briggs couldn’t get Stax interested in it so he pressed up copies on their own Kimbrig label and titled it teasingly “Who’s Kimberley?”   Fantasy picked it up the following year and issued it as “Passing Clouds” by Kimberley Briggs.  On the set Kim tried a lengthy rap to the Box Tops hit “The Letter” and also did a big orchestra number on David Ruffin’s “My Whole World Ended”.  She even essayed John Denver’s “Leaving On A Jet Plane” but the tracks that have stood the test of time best are the originals.  “He’s Still On My Mind” is Kim at her desperate best and the tuneful “If I Could Work A Miracle” is first class as well.   Marketing the album was a big problem. Fantasy was not known as a soul label and failed to issue a “taster” 45 from the set.  Furthermore, the name on the front was an unfamiliar one and the anodyne skyscape on the cover did little to help sales.    The LP disappeared without trace.

This did not deter the couple who continued recording during 1972/3 and were able to place Kim’s second LP “Come And Get Me I’m Ready” in 1973 with Chess, a much more suitable outlet.  This set was in a different league to the first effort, full of finely honed songs; although the production was again heavily orchestrated there were less of the soul/rock overtones that rather marred “Passing Clouds”.  And Kim was in terrific form, overflowing with emotional commitment and passion.  Briggs’ material like the uptempo “Learn To Get Along Without You”, the somewhat lascivious title track and the slow builder “The Way He Used To” with its fiery climax were amongst his very best.

The two “outside” numbers were well chosen as well.  Clarence Reid’s “She Don’t Know You”, a “tell tale” cheating story of considerable class and a cover of Gwen McCrae’s excellent “I’m Losing The Feeling” were right in the pocket.  But Kim sounded most at home on her own material like the painful saga of “On The Other Side Of Town” and the outstanding ballad “Takin’ A Woman’s Stand”.   As with the Fantasy LP, for whatever reason, no single was taken from the set for play on the black radio stations, and that really hampered recognition for the set, and hence sales.  In a very crowded market the LP sank.