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Not being the subtlest of writers, you may have noticed that I’ve been dropping the occasional hint for a while now that blogging fatigue has been setting in. Real world demands and a general lack of posting inspiration have finally confirmed for me that it’s time to move on and [...]

Billy Stewart: Sitting In The Park and I Do Love You
Available on: I Do Love You [Chess, 1965]
Ok, no breaks here today, no outrageous fuzzy funk or wild and crazy rap, just some plain old sublime and gorgeous soul music for your ears. I’ve been meaning to post up something about Billy Stewart for what [...]

Mandingo: Black Rite and The Headhunter
Available on: The Sound Gallery, Vol. 1 [Scamp, 1996]
Most Brits around about my age and older will have encountered the sounds of Geoff Love at one time or another, even if they didn’t realise it at the time. A talented musician who had some minor success with his own [...]

Tonio Rubio: Bass In Action No 2 and Dead Slow
From: Rhythms [Telemusic, 1973]
Apologies for the break in posting, the ever more unlikely circus that has been the UK elections has made me take my eye off the ball a bit with updating the site. Add to this a certain weariness that occasionally crops up over [...]

The Chequers: Get Up Stand Up and Check It Out
From: Check Us Out [Creole Records, 1975]
It’s been a miserable week indeed with the untimely passing of Guru and the subsequent fallout that looks like becoming ever more unpleasant. We’ve put a few tributes up to the legendary MC on the facebook page but, with so [...]

Jerry Peters: White Shutters and If You Leave Me Now
From: Blueprint For Discovery [Mercury, 1972]
Grown up soul jazz moves for you today with some rare solo output from one of the great soul arrangers, Jerry Peters. Most famous for his string work, Peters was also no slouch on the percussion side of things and [...]

The Exciters: Movin’ Too Slow and Give It All
From: Caviar And Chitlins [RCA, 1969]
Northern Soul is a strange old thing. I tend to reach saturation point with it on a relatively regular basis and decide that, a few bangers apart, I can live without much of the output. It doesn’t help that I haven’t really [...]

Detroit Emeralds: I’ll Never Sail The Seas Again and Take My Love
From: You Want It You Got It [Westbound, 1971]
You know, as much as I like to flaunt the rarity of many of the songs posted here, I’m as much a sucker for a well known hummable soul song as anyone else and Detroit [...]

Mary McCreary: Soothe Me and Singing The Blues (Reggae)
From: Jezebel [Shelter, 1974]
Some outstanding seventies soul singer action for you today with a couple of tracks from Mary McCreary’s second solo album, the 1974 release, Jezebel. As far as pedigrees go, McCreary has it in spades. Starting at the extremely tender age of 10, McCreary’s vocal [...]

The Blackfoot: Second Time and This Is My Time
From: The Footsteps [Zambia, 197?]
It’s been a little while since we picked up on some more Zambian rock on the site but rest assured that I’ve still been hunting these beauties down in an effort to recreate the jaw drop that I got from Tembo and [...]