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4 New Modern Soul Tunes Out Now on Liquid Soul

Daptone celebrates 20 years of soulful music with the release of The Daptone Super Soul Revue "LIVE at the Apollo". Full digital album and 3xLP available now!

(limited to 300 copies only)

DOUBLE 'A'SIDE NEW RELEASE NEWS

Pee Wee Ellis had worked as Esther Phillips' bandleader back in the 1970's; he said he had a beautiful live show tape...

Another new Kent release, Soul Superman / With A Dab Of Soul - VA (Pied Piper)

Details of a new release from Kent Can I Be A Witness - Stax Southern Groove...

Blue eyed soul meets latin on the new single by Swedish artist Magnus Carlson.

Article found on line about the group formed circa 1965 in San Diego and recorded "This Is The Day" on John B Kopit's" KOPIT label.

Hot on the heels of the hugely successful Decisions "We're In Love/I Love You" Soul Direction release, come for me a track that should have made a 45 release before now and after a conversation with Numero they agreed so here we are...

A heads up on the next 45 release from Shotgun records along with other related 45 release news. Out in a couple of weeks is Special Delivery - This Kind Of Love (Long Version) - SHOT 114 

Soul 4 Real New Release - Bettye Swann (S4R16)

Out this Friday in the Uk, check out the below for the HD trailer and showing details

Blind singer Willie Williams with an excellent release via Soul Junction, the soulful Give It All I Got, a great slice of social commentary with Do You Understand

The pre-orders for the double A sided 45-Claire Davis-Thrive/Playground(LRK-12) are now AVAILABLE. LTD to 300 copies on black vinyl only!

The latest new addition to Kent Records ongoing 'The Producer Series' has just been released 

New release from Big Man Records

The Soulful Kinda Music Guide To The West Coast: A discography of West Coast Soul. Details...

Good Good Feeling! More Motown Girls - New Ace Cd Out Now Full details, scans and tracks follow below...

Details of new Cd release 'Soul On The Real Side #12'

New Diggin' Deep 45 - News August 2021 featuring Lee Hurst / Terry and the Pyrates

A review of the book, It Ain’t Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution...

Hit and Run Records - 2 New Releases - Willie and West + Cynthia & The Imaginary 3

The beast is unleashed! Rare Pleasure's 'Superfine Feeling' Pts 1 & 2 - first time on 7" anywhere and all legally cleared.  . listen and read via the below...

What Soul film biographies are long overdue ?

"Many are touched by adversity, they fall down and they never get back up, whereas some go through adversity and discover their true self". How one man after finding himself down took the plunge to find and rescue unissued recordings for the work to hear.

The Soul Up North #109 Summer 2021 issue is now out and about, as always brimming with soul related words and info... Contents of this issue follow

Doris Duke - Deep Soul Queen. Another quality fully featured article by @Peternickols 

A scan of a newspaper article from1978 looking at the drug side of the Casino... 'Life and soul of long Wigan Nights'

Sensations / Jesse Fisher Out This Week