Sandra Wright was an incredibly powerful Soul singer who was born in Memphis and later based in Nashville. She had joined a white R&B band Canned Souls in 1967 and recorded a few 45’s before being spotted by Freddie North and signed by David Johnson. Wounded Woman is one of the greatest Deep Southern Soul albums of all time. It was recorded at Broadway Studios Muscle Shoals in 1974 produced by David Johnson, in the same studio that Swamp Dogg used for his seminal albums by Doris Duke and Sandra Phillips. The album was licensed to Stax records Truth subsidiary...
Check out this great batch of 50 pre-loved 70s and 80s Soul and out of print CDs from the large CD collection that arrived earlier in the year. All CDs are in great condition, many are still sealed, all as individually graded and noted. All titles are one off’s, so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other CDs from the same collection here. CDs can be ordered online, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 or collect from our store in Putney open Mon-Sat 11-6. Happy Diggin Laurence
There are a few new releases and some great restocks this week. Firstly the brilliant Circling Sun 'Orbits' is back in stock on Black LP - one of the best new Jazz albums of the year. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad superb 'Midnight Hour' album is finally available on vinyl. Christone Kingfish Ingram has a new album of Blues 'Hard Road'. There are two good Northern Soul 45s on Outta Sight from Alexander Patton and Howard Guyton/The High Keyes, available as regular dinked or full centre DJ Copies. There are some nice back catalogue restocks including more copies of...
Lou Courtney recorded one of the all time great 70’s Soul albums in 1974 with the Jerry Ragavoy co-produced ‘I’m in need of love’. The 10 Great songs are expertly arranged by Leon Pendarvis backed with superb instrumentation and topped with wonderful expressive Soulful vocal performances from Lou Courtney. The album includes the modern soul gems ‘What Do You Want Me To Do’, ‘I Don’t Want Nobody else’, ‘I’m in need of love’ and ‘The Common broken Heart’. The Philly inspired up tempo cuts ‘I Will if You Will’ and ‘Somebody new is Lovin on you’ plus there are some...
One of our favourite singers Ledisi returns with a superb tribute to Dinah Washington - one of the most sassy of Jazzy Soul singers from the 50s and early 60s Ledisi reveals the true beauty of her voice in this setting accompanied by great musicians, recalling an era of great songs and arrangements. 'What a difference a day made', 'If I Never Get To Heaven', 'You Don't Know What Love Is' are great laid back tunes. 'Caravan" and 'You Got What It Takes' (ft Gregory Porter) really swing along. Ledisi is best known as a soul singer but this album,...
The popular and excellent 'Soul On The Real Side' compilation series returns with volume 16, featuring another 20 Modern and Northern Soul tracks. There is Premium's take on Keith Barrow's 'you know you want to be loved', Choice of Colour's modern dancer 'Your Love', Thomas East 'Follow the Rainbow' and Swiss Movement 'Trying To Win Your Love'. Northern classics include Ohio Players 'I Gotta Get Away', Don Varner 'When It's Over' and Tony Owens 'All that matters'. A nice comp - click on the product to hear some of the tracks and check out some of the others in the...
There are some great new releases, reissues and compilations this week. First up our good friend Ledisi is back with a new album, an excellent tribute to Dinah Washington illustrating the beauty of her voice, available on CD and LP, and including a duet with Gregory Porter. The popular 'Soul on the Real Side' returns with volume 16, featuring 20 Modern and Northern soul tracks. Bobby Hutcherson's superb Latin-Fusion album 'Montara' gets a Blue Note Tone Poet 180gm analogue release. John Coltrane's spiritual epic 'A Love Supreme' also gets an analogue 180gm release of the rare Mono version. Tramp's interesting...
Vibes player Bobby Hutcherson recorded 22 albums for the Blue Note label between 1965 and 1977. His 13th, 'Montara' was released in 1975 and marked first full Latin Jazz album. One of his finest ever albums, containing seven great tracks and featuring a stellar cast of musicians, including Ernie Watts, Harvey Mason, Ralph McDonald, Blue Mitchell, Oscar Brashear, Larry Nash plus Latin stalwarts Eddie Cano, Bobby Matos, Willie Bobo and many others. 'Camel Rise' was written by George Cables - a lovely fusion song with a driving rhythm given a Latin makeover (Freddie Hubbard also recorded a great version around...
Ronnie McNeir's debut album for RCA was released in 1972, produced by Mickey Stevenson. The 12 tracks (10 on LP) on 'Makes A Move' are from the same sessions but were unreleased at the time. 'Let's Make A Move' is an uptempo semi funky groove that would appeal to the 70s Modern Soul scene. 'I'm Sorry' is a more straightforward modern soul dancer. There is a nice version of the Temptations/Norman Whitfield 'Girls Alright With Me'. 'My Day Will Come' is a nice mid tempo floater. 'Say You' starts off with the intro later used on 'Summertime', then develops into a nice upper...
Firstly please accept our apologies if you haven't been able to get hold of us over the past 2 weeks, finally we have a restored internet service so can access emails now but phones still diverted to a mobile phone. Hopefully fixed on Monday. This has inevitably affected our service at times, so sorry if this has affected you. There are many great releases, reissues and restocks this week. There are new albums from Lady Wray, Kendra Morris, Theo Croker and a vinyl version of Sheree Brown's last album. There is a whole unreleased album from Ronnie McNeir from 1972 ,...
