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I'm one of the compilers of this complation of early Detroit Soul for History of Soul Records. I'd be really interested to find out what people think about the choice of tracks bearing in mind that its timescale is 1957-1962. The main idea was to present a collection that we thought would be historically interesting but at the same time very listenable throughtout. Keith Rylatt wrote the sleeve notes. Any suggestions for inclusion on volume two would be carefully considered.

The James Hunter Six With Love...The James Hunter Six Available digitally now. LP & CD available March 25.  We present The James Hunter Six's latest offering, With Love..., a heart-shaped collection of candle-lit ballads and love songs. Plucked like so many "he loves you" petals from the vast and sumptuous garden of his Daptone Recordings, these twelve lilting melodies have been selected and sequenced with great care, tenderness, and intention by Daptone staff for the solitary pu

News all about an interesting release featuring both a  new reworked version and a remastered version from the original acetate,    'Some fifteen years later, and taken directly from Shirley’s personal dubplate, Sonar Kollektiv were finally able to restore and remaster this rare take from that session plus a sophisticated, balladic reworking that respects the original but gives it a very different twist' Sonar Kollektiv are very proud to present a sweet slice of obscure Philly sou

Andy Dyson is putting together a worthwhile tape for charity, None of the over the top stuff heres Andys own words I figured if I charge £3 inc p+p for the tape it will raise whatever less post and tape cost which i havent the foggiest idea what blank tapes cost.so feel free to send what you want but £3 is enough.the tape will consist of some of my current plays and deep and general soul first priority is quality but equally and hopefully tunes that are unknown to t

The Verve Music Group and the American Diabetes Association will kick off “Write a Love Letter to Luther,” a national fundraising campaign for musician Luther Vandross, on August 3. “Write a Love Letter to Luther” offers fans the opportunity to write encouraging letters to Vandross, who suffered a diabetes-related stroke earlier this year. The letters will be accompanied by contributions to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). August 3 is being called the “Love Letter to Luther Day” and h

Those Kent people have been busy pushing out a shed full of nice 45s over the last couple of weeks. Here's both a listing and audio preview of just some of these recent releases.   The PIED PIPER PLAYERS/THE CAVALIERS The Bari Sax Kent Cat: PIPER 012 Rel: 29 Mar 18  Pied Piper The Bari Sax Aka This Heart Is Lonely / We Go Together (Rap Version) Mixed from the original Rose Batiste tape of ‘This Heart Is Lonely’, the fore-runner to her ‘I Miss My Baby’ on Revilot, th

You Brought The Sunshine: The Sound Of Gospel Recordings 1976-1981 - The Clark Sisters - Westbound A new album titled 'You Brought The Sunshine' by The Clark Sisters has just been released on the Ace records related Westbound Records label and is now available to purchase in both Cd and MP3 formats. The details and more of this release follow below...   Release Notes Preview The Clark Sisters loom large over the modern gospel landscape, which rests mainly on the legacy of t

Betty Boo has been a household name on the Northern Soul Scene since the days of Wigan Casino but one who has always it seems remained a somewhat mystery figure.  "Say It Isn't So" was massive back in the days off Wigan and saw a release on a 45 via Grapevine. Spellbound another scene favourite and a fabulous Popcorn Wylie production only ever made it as far as "The Talk Of The Grapevine" Lp has now belatedly been given a release on a 45 via Soul Junction.  Read on for the story of Betty and her

You Got The Power - Cameo Parkway Northern Soul CD Cameo Parkway was late to CD but the Northern Soul selections have been trickling onto CD/LP compilation releases legally now for a couple of decades, starting first with the 'Introduction to Northern Soul' boxset I think. Here is the first official CD dedicated entirely to the Northern Soul releases on the label I envisage, I could be wrong.  In theory these are out now, but I haven't seen them anywhere and the big A lists them for Septemb

Real Gone Music have been releasing the complete Atlantic, Atco and related label material recordings for various artists these past few years. Linda Jones, Carl Hall, Patti Labelle, Bettye Swann, The Sweet Inspirations, Jackie Moore and Dee Dee Warwick just some of artists featured so far.  It is the latter, Dee Dee Warwick that we are interested in here.  Her compilation from 2014 feature no less than 12 previously unreleased songs.  One of those 12 “You Tore My Wall Down” has been the most ta

Here's news and a trailer of a new film due out June 2007 Leonardo Flores is the man behind it and was featured on (a new site to me) Cinedelica which says that it "traces the wonder, discovery and disappointment of the contemporary Los Angeles Mod/Skin/Northern Soul movement through the eyes of a quiet teenage girl named Jill." Leonardo Flores webite says its set for release in June 2007 - Young Birds Fly. trailer clip below details and background a bit hazy at moment, if go

Here's an early warning for those readers who live beyond the next weekend Details of the follow up to Stuart Cosgrove's much acclaimed 2015 book Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul  (Detroit 67 Info) are out and about. Titled 'Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul' the blurb below sets out in detail just what to expect.. 'Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life and th

Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul  Just a heads up if you have been waiting for this book. Blurb: Young Soul Rebels is the latest book from Stuart Cosgrove and has just been published recently, it does appears that the planned release date was pushed forward Northern soul is the ultimate underground music scene. Hidden away from the mainstream, it has defied the logic of fashion and outlasted more visible youth culture movements such as punk and rave. Aut

Am sure some of you out there may remember a fairly active thread a few months ago here on Soul Source about this project. Well time moves on and here pushed out amongst all the summer going ons is words on the end result. Firstly a clip of a news item from the NME website which has the main meat... "NME snapper Dean Chalkley is set to open a photographic exhibition and screen a short film based on Northern Soul in London later this month. The exhibition, entitled Young Souls, takes plac

Having been ripped off on my previous attempts to fulfill a dream and make some northern soul I am hoping to fair a little better this time around. Last time I did this a "friend" in the UK made quite a bit from the Larry Hammond cuts and I never saw a penny of it. I did subsequently receive a couple of hundred quid from another person for a minidisc and gave half of it to Larry. Well that was fifteen years ago and this time around I am intending to do it properly. I was introduced

Out now from Kent Records a new double album offering a complete package of all ZZ Hill's Kent recordings, together for the first time. Z.Z. Hill - That's It! The Complete Kent Recordings 1964-1968 - CDTOP2 476 Release notes (summary) His complete recordings for the Bihari brothers’ Kent label, together on one package for the first time, including many making their CD debut. For two decades Z Z Hill was a go-to guy for anyone who needed a shot of blues-tinged soul music. His