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George Jackson and Bobby Sheen 2010 and still they keep flowing... Soulscape add their contribution to the river of quality soul music releases that have been lucky enough to be caught up in during this year 2010 A quick word on two recently released cds just in case with this almost constant deluge they may have swept past you Full details below, available from the Soulscape web site link below or via all the usual suppliers Info, clips and images follows BOBBY SHEEN Too Many To Fight SSCD 7025 £12.99 (GBP) with FREE POSTAGE Bobby Sheen cut these vintage tracks at Fame, Widget and Broadway Sound in Muscle Shoals in the early 1970s when he was signed to Wishbone Productions, owned by Clayton Ivey and Terry Woodford. Lease deals resulted in the release of four singles but the intended album was 'shelved', leaving the other nine tracks unheard for almost forty years. 01 Too Many To Fight 02 I'm Not Strong Enough (To Love You Again) 03 You're Messing Up A Good Thing 04 If You're Ever Gonna Love Me 05 Trying To Get To You 06 Something New To Do 07 I'm Sorry 08 I May Not Be What You Want 09 Can't Keep My Mind On What I'm Doing 10 If I Ever Dreamed I Hurt You 11 It Ain't Easy Being Your Fool 12 She Hit Me From The Blind Side 13 Give It Up 14 Don't Make Me Do Wrong 15 Payback 16 Love Stealing 17 Come On And Love Me clips avialable via http://www.garryjcape.com/sscd7025.htm GEORGE JACKSON All Because Of Your Love SSCD 7024 £12.99 (GBP) with FREE POSTAGE George Jackson is best known as a songwriter with many hits and classics to his credit but he is also considered by fans and connoisseurs to be a legendary artist in his own right. This is the third collection of masters and demos he recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound during the 1970s and all but two of these vintage tracks are previously unreleased. Liner notes by John Ridley. 01 Sweet Surrender 02 My Heart Won't Let Me Forget 03 There's So Much More Where This Came From 04 Can't Break The Habit 05 Play Something Pretty 06 Back Track 07 I Get A Rockin' Good Feeling 08 Instant Replay 09 All Because Of Your Love 10 Can't Make It Without You 11 Can I Take You Home 12 Hey Miss Lady 13 You Gave The Best Performance Of Your Life 14 I Was Trying Not To Break Down 15 Old Time Rock And Roll 16 Your Love Is Working On Me 17 Let The Funk Flow 18 Disco Granny 19 Fast Young Lady 20 Funky Disco Music clips available via http://www.garryjcape.com/sscd7024.htm Soulscape website - for online ordering and more information on Soulscape and past releases http://www.garryjcape.com/

Latest online edition of Manchester Confidential features a very well known record shop moving to a new location "Recently it looked as though Beatin' Rhythm, the Tib Street record shop, might leave our city for good. Names that spring to mind qualifying as regular customers (having been in at least twice and bought something). Morrissey, Wayne Hemingway, Johnny Marr, Christopher Eccleston, Pete Doherty, Lily Allen, Mark Lamarr, Stuart Maconie, Chemical Brothers, Grandmaster Flash.... It looked as if model of retail distinctiveness was calling it a day. This would have been a nightmare for shopping diversity..." Full story and new location can be read here Beatin' Rhythm saved for the nation Classic Manchester shop finds new home http://www.mancheste...ation_15583.asp Footnote: 1. Can visit the Beating Rythmn website via link below which also features an interesting Tim Brown article http://www.beatinrhythm.com/ 2. Manchester Chimp had a recent 4 page northern soul feature, anyone seen it? worth a dig ?

The Invitations It Was A Woman/Heavenly Love Soul Junction 509-X out Monday 11th Oct 2010 Hot on the heels of the recent David Hudson Lp release, Soul Junction continue the stepping up of the pace with yet another fresh release. Their latest 45 features another familiar name - The Invitations - and see's Soul Junction yet again not only stepping up the pace but keeping the quality levels high featuring both rare and previously unissued quality soul music Soul Junction has also just launched their very own web prescence with the recent opening of the new Soul Junction web site. Featuring all the latest Soul Junction news along with information and clips on all their releases to date Can visit via the link below http://www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk/ The Invitations - It Was A Woman/Heavenly Love - Soul Junction 509-X Press Release Info The Invitations came to prominence through their classic 60's soul recordings, "What's Wrong With Me Baby" and "Skiing In The Snow" on Dynovoice records. More recently their second release for the MGM label ""Watch Out Little Girl" has grown in popularity within the Northern Soul scene. After the groups association with MGM finished they then signed with the Diamond label, releasing just one single "Got To Have It Now". The Diamond label was owned by Joel Diamond who during the early 70's re-signed the Invitations to his Polydor distributed ,"Silver Blue" label. Where they cut a string of excellent releases with the likes of "Look On The Good Side" and "They Say The Girls Crazy" ensuring the group continued popularity. A later 70's release the funky "We Don't Allow (no sitting In Here)" would appear on the Red Greg label. During the late 60's and early 70's the group were regular visitors to the UK, firstly performing under the stage name of the "American Drifters" before eventually reverting to the Invitations on later tours. They returned to the UK in 2005 to perform at the Assembly Rooms Derby followed by the Hemsby" Motown" Weekender. In 2009 the group under their own Invite records banner released the" Missing You" album. Although being little more than a vanity project to sound out a potential market with a limited pressing run of only 100 copies the album did contain some excellent songs. It is from this album that we have taken the following songs "It Was A Woman" backed with "Heavenly Love" which incidentally only appears on the album as a instrumental version, for our next Soul Junction 45 release. Release Date: Monday October 11th 2010 Invitations - It Was A Woman/Heavenly Love -

Soul Essence website has had a going over Main thrust is next years weekender #29 - April 8th, 9th & 10th - 2011 so there's booking forms and al that but there's also a look back at the past along with some photos, reviews etc So I finally got off my lazy backside and updated the site. The dates for Essence 28 are now set, so why not iAdd them to your iPhone using iCal and iSay iSay iSay. Essence 27 was a rip roaring success as usual, good music (very true), good beer (true), fine dining (false) and fine wines (very false). The Gouch managed an awesome lounge over the weekend (check out his top picks here), and I was to be found winding down to the music in there on Saturday afternoon before winding up again for the Saturday night. link below http://www.soul-essence.co.uk/

A quick pass on of Aces Nov 2010 release schedule New Release for October 2010 from Ace Records ARTIST: VARIOUS ARTISTS (HOW MANY ROADS) CATALOGUE NUMBER: CDCHD 1278 TITLE: HOW MANY ROADS: BLACK AMERICA SINGS BOB DYLAN LABEL: ACE Not for nothing is Bob Dylan considered to be one of the greatest songwriters of his, or any other, generation. His compositions have provided a prime source of repertoire for hundreds, even thousands, of recording ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8570 ARTIST: VARIOUS ARTISTS (ACE STORY) CATALOGUE NUMBER: CDCHD 1281 TITLE: THE ACE (USA) STORY VOLUME 2 LABEL: ACE We weren't in the least bit surprised at how well our expanded CD reissue of "The Ace (USA) Story Volume 1" was received. It's been one of the most requested items in the "Why don't you reissue more of your old vinyl ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8564 ARTIST: DANA GILLESPIE CATALOGUE NUMBER: CDCHD 1279 TITLE: I REST MY CASE LABEL: ACE Dana Gillespie must spend at least a quarter of her life on aeroplanes as she is endlessly touring and bringing her vibrant, thrilling and mostly self-penned blues all over the world with destinations ranging from ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8565 ARTIST: VARIOUS ARTISTS (SURF) CATALOGUE NUMBER: CDCHD 1282 TITLE: HEY, BEACH GIRLS! FEMALE SURF 'N' DRAG 1961-1966 LABEL: ACE To bridge the gap between volumes of "Where The Girls Are", my oppo Malcolm Baumgart and I have taken Stephen J McParland's recent book Bikinis, Black Denim & Bitchen Sounds* as our inspiration to concoct this fun new ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8566 ARTIST: VARIOUS ARTISTS (MAINSTREAM RECORDS) CATALOGUE NUMBER: CDBGPD 223 TITLE: THE MESSAGE. SOUL, FUNK AND JAZZY GROOVES FROM MAINSTREAM RECORDS LABEL: BEAT GOES PUBLIC Bob Shad's Mainstream Records is one of the great unsung US independent labels of the 60s and 70s. Shad, who made his name as an executive at Mercury, set up on his own in the early 60s and debuted Mainstream a few ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8563 ARTIST: THE ZOMBIES CATALOGUE NUMBER: LTDEP 003 TITLE: ZOMBIES R&B (VINYL) LABEL: BIG BEAT Big Beat's exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8567 ARTIST: THE ZOMBIES CATALOGUE NUMBER: LTDEP 004 TITLE: ZOMBIES A GO GO (VINYL) LABEL: BIG BEAT Big Beat's exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8568 ARTIST: THE ZOMBIES CATALOGUE NUMBER: LTDEP 005 TITLE: AT WORK (N' PLAY) (VINYL) LABEL: BIG BEAT Big Beat's exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing ... http://www.acerecord...59&release=8569 Launch Events!More Miles Than Money Launch Party this Thursday. Click here for full details.Also this Thursday The Flaming Stars at the 100 Club Click here for full details.Rocket In My Pocket at Sounds That Swing - Wednesday 6th October Click here for full details. Ace Records 42-50 Steele RoadLondon NW10 7AS 020 8453 1311020 8961 8725 www.acerecords.co.uk info@acerecords.co.uk

John Legend has teamed up with The Roots to push out a covers album with a difference - its actually quite interesting and enjoyable. The album is made up of their takes on "socially/politically conscious Soul classics from the sixties and seventies". As can see by the track listing below its quite a varied selection and is billed as being inspired by the recent US presidential elections. Highlights from here being the versions of Baby Hueys "Hard Times", the take of "Compared To What " and the title track Also includes one original track - Shine Can preview all tracks via a page on John Legends site (link below) 1. Hard Times John Legend & The Roots feat. Black Thought 5:16 2. Compared To What John Legend & The Roots 6:26 3. Wake Up Everybody John Legend & The Roots feat. Common & Melanie Fiona 4:24 4. Our Generation (The Hope Of The World) John Legend & The Roots feat. CL Smooth 3:15 5. Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude) John Legend & The Roots feat. Malik Yusef 1:58 6. Little Ghetto Boy John Legend & The Roots feat. Black Thought 5:26 7. Hang On In There John Legend & The Roots 7:15 $1.29 8. Humanity (Love The Way It Should Be) John Legend & The Roots 3:49 $1.29 9. Wholy Holy John Legend & The Roots 5:50 $1.29 10. I Can't Write Left Handed John Legend & The Roots 11:43 $1.29 11. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free John Legend & The Roots 2:42 $1.29 12. Shine John Legend & The Roots Out now via all usual mainstream places

Was it really 2 years ago that C4 broadcast this short 3 minute film featuring Stevie Cato on a trip to Soul Revolution? Colin O'Toole the director of this short series of short documentary films has just posted all 4 fillms on vimeo. Seeing that the clip that was featured on Soul Source at the time was all a bit lo- fi it has to be a good excuse to revisit this tip top film and also highlight the others in this series. Have embedded the main soul related one "the gathering" below best viewed in "full screen" ( just hit the full screen button) You can view all the four films in this series via the link below and can read the full words (a clip follows below) on what the thinking and the aim was behind this series. In 2008 I directed four short documentary films for the '3 Minute Wonder' strand on Channel 4. The core theme of each film centred on the idea of a gathering, be it a religious pilgrimage, a nightclub, a protest or one mans mission to save his town. It was my mission to create these simple docs with a cinematic approach and as a reflection of how docs in the 60's and 70's even in the 1980's would have been shot on film using quality.... Can read the rest of the words and see the other films at the link below