Listening to the George Jackson crew 's set on www.soulcast.co.uk - 3rd track in - Clarence Reid's ' Winter Man ' -

flip of Funky Party (Alston ) - Love the track - & have quite a bit of the man's output on Minaret / Alston /

Like his stable mate at Alston - Betty Wright - think he's a little under valued as an artist IMO. Anyone else

a fan ?

ATB

Rich

always liked him, especially his early stuff although I at one stage also had his very late stuff under the name of Blowfly

have a look here https://www.nndb.com/people/559/000087298/

I'm a huge fan of Clarence Reid. His original version of Come On With It is currently glued to my turntable.

Paradoxically, Clarence Reid is a staunch, bible-toting Christian, who is quick to call out hypocritical Christians who chastise him for his ways. "Those muthafuckas should all sit on a giant butt plug," he says. "Most of them don't truly understand what the Bible is saying, and some haven't even read the Bible to begin with. I make an example of those muthafuckas every time they try to approach me with that bullshit."

Pasted from the link Marc posted. Would love to hear a sermon!

Gareth - Possible on details of the track you mentioned - doesn't spring to mind - Will have to check when home. Should have a discography somewhere....

ATB

Rich

Just listening to the radio show as we speak, really enjoyed it. Had the good luck to be involved with the George Jackson nights, not many punters but musically fantastic IMO. I love Clarence Reid too, great stuff!!

Come On With It is more famously known by Lew Kirton on Marlin. A great version too, but Clarence edges it for me. I think it's no great stretch to call this guy a genius, and to me he's often unfairly overlooked when people talk of the great singer-songwriters such as Bobby Patterson, Sam Dees, Bobby Womack, Phillip Mitchell, Jimmy Lewis etc. He deserves to be bracketed with that elite bunch. Please remember too all the great 'Northern' and rare soul tracks he was involved with as writer, singer and producer, such as Paul Kelly, Helene Smith, Purple Mundi, Jimmy Bo Horn, etc. Add the prolific Blowfly into the equation and you have quite a CV.

Kinell, don't I sound posh on the 'radio'.

Hi Rich

I am a big Clarence Reid fan - I was lucky enough to meet him last year in NO. Since then I have interviewed him in depth about his own recordings and his songs for others.

You can catch a quick intro to this on my blog:-

https://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2006...th-blowfly.html

I am still in the process of writing up the interview.

I agree he is very underated and I touched on this today in my blog while writing about a CD of Deep City recordings:-

https://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2006...ic-soul-cd.html

Please drop by!

Cheers

Colin

https://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/

Pure genius up there with George Clinton as one of soul's great creative eccentrics.

I like 'Baptise Me in your Love' it has a great mix of religion and filth.

quality act.

How many LP's did he release on Alston? I know of one but have never seen a copy.

How many LP's did he release on Alston? I know of one but have never seen a copy.

Just the two LPs, as far as I'm aware -

DANCIN' WITH NOBODY BUT YOU BABE

RUNNING WATER (contains a killer original version of Lew Kirton's "New York City")

Both those have been issued on Japanese Atlantic CDs in recent years. He may have had a third album on the later configuration of Alston. I don't have such a thing, but there's a little voice in the back of my mind telling me that this could be so, and I never ignore the little voices!!!!

BTW to go right back to the top , Clarence's "Winter Man" is indeed fantastic but Charles Allen's version on Dash (the other side of "God Blessed Our Love") is even better, I think...

TONE

How many LP's did he release on Alston? I know of one but have never seen a copy.

I am only aware of the two releases too. But the 'Nobody But You Babe' LP also came out on TAY-STER the New York based indie too. Not sure if it preceded the Alston release or not. Sleeve notes on this one by the DJ Brooks O'Dell.

The Tayster LP is completely different to the Atco distributed "Nobody But You"; presumably older material released by Jack Taylor to cash in on the success of NBY. It's a fantastic album, with a few tracks which never saw the light of day on any other format, including a phenomenal deep track, Otis, Heaven Will Welcome You (the basis of Big Maybelle's Heaven Will Welcome You tribute to Martin Luther King). The cover of the Tayster lp is priceless too, with a poorly superimposed cutout of Clarence's face on a shot of Neil Armstrong standing on the moon! Or maybe it really was Clarence... another one for you conspiracy theorists out there.

The Tayster LP is completely different to the Atco distributed "Nobody But You"; presumably older material released by Jack Taylor to cash in on the success of NBY. It's a fantastic album, with a few tracks which never saw the light of day on any other format, including a phenomenal deep track, Otis, Heaven Will Welcome You (the basis of Big Maybelle's Heaven Will Welcome You tribute to Martin Luther King). The cover of the Tayster lp is priceless too, with a poorly superimposed cutout of Clarence's face on a shot of Neil Armstrong standing on the moon! Or maybe it really was Clarence... another one for you conspiracy theorists out there.

Thanks for that Gareth - love it even more now and have another want's list too.

Just the two LPs, as far as I'm aware -

DANCIN' WITH NOBODY BUT YOU BABE

RUNNING WATER (contains a killer original version of Lew Kirton's "New York City")

Both those have been issued on Japanese Atlantic CDs in recent years. He may have had a third album on the later configuration of Alston. I don't have such a thing, but there's a little voice in the back of my mind telling me that this could be so, and I never ignore the little voices!!!!

BTW to go right back to the top , Clarence's "Winter Man" is indeed fantastic but Charles Allen's version on Dash (the other side of "God Blessed Our Love") is even better, I think...

TONE

He did indeed have a third LP on Alston:

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