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Jesse James - Father We're Having Trouble Down Here - Soul Junction SJ546 View full article
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Press Release: Jesse James Father We’re Having Trouble Down Here/Father We’re Having Trouble Down Here (Album Mix) SJ546 Release Date: Monday February 21ST 2022 Way back in 2008 Soul Junction released a 45 on Duane Williams “Yes My Love Is Real” with Duane being one half of the Detroit husband and wife singing duo Beverley and Duane. The duo under the guidance of their lifelong friend Will Hatcher recorded six songs of which two “ We Got To Stick Together” and “Glad I Got You Baby” were picked up by local Detroit label president Woodrow ‘Woody Wilson for release as a 45 single on his Fee label. The popularity of the 45 was to attract attention from the major Ariola label, who picked it up for national distribution during 1978 leading to the subsequent Ariola album ‘Beverley & Duane”. As the 1980’s dawned Beverley and Duane recorded a solitary 45 single for the independent Detroit Brown Bomber label “Love/You Belong To Me”. The label was owned by John L. Barrow a nephew of former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, (Brown Bomber being Louis’s nickname). Beverley and Duane later moved to the west coast until their amicable divorce which led to Duane returning to his native Detroit to reacquaint himself with his former mentor Will Hatcher. This meeting of old friends led to the creation of Duane’s first solo project which Will brought to Soul Junction in late 2007. Hot on the heels of Duane’s hugely popular Soul Junction 45 came his subsequent CD album “These Songs Are For You” (SJ5001) released in 2009. Contained within this album was the very pertinent gospel/social commentary song “Father We’re Having Trouble” a song which two very close and knowledgeable friends of mine the late John Anderson and Bill Randle claimed had all the right ingredients for a potential hit record. Over the ensuing years this song has always remained in my thoughts until a few years ago I broached the idea with my good friend Jesse James recording a cover version of it, Jesse upon hearing the song was very receptive to the idea. Another period of time elapsed before we again reignited the idea. A decade or so on from Duane’s original version and the lyric’s of this particular song still remain as pertinent as ever, if not more so! During early 2020 Jesse entered, Con Funk Shun multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Felton Pilate’s Felstar Studio in Atlanta to lay down the basic tracks with Felton acting as co-producer on this project. Everything was progressing nicely until a worldwide pandemic intervened. With Jesse locked down in his new home on the West Coast and Felton in Atlanta the project unfortunately came to a holt. During this enforced period of inactivity further racial and political upheaval occurred which only added more poignance to the project. Eventually with the lifting of lockdown restrictions Jesse finally made it back to Atlanta to finish the project, the fruits of which you have before you now. For further information please contact Soul Junction at: Telephone: +44 (0) 121 602 8115 or E-mail: sales@souljunctionrecords.co.uk To buy this or any other soul junction releases that are still in stock (not many) visit the website at http://www.souljunctionrecords.co.uk/SJ546.html Or ask your usual stockists! -
January’s catch up of some of the latest stuff to drop on the doormat (not really, the postie hands them over). Most of them new or recent releases, one or two I’m catching up with and some forthcoming releases. Northern through to today from labels such as MD Records, Hit & Run, Soul Direction, Soul Junction, Epsilon, North Broad Street, Shotgun & One World Records, Hayley, SixNine Records, Izipho Soul, Jai Alai (Soul4Real), Super Disco Edits & Now & Then. Sensations – Blinded By Love - MD Forthcoming John Bowie – Help Me Pretty Baby – MD Records Honey & The Bee – Don’t Hurt Me (I Just Wanna Be Loved) – MD Records Lady Wray – Where Were You – Piece Of Me LP Lisa Bello – Dream Again – Izipho Soul Michelle David – It’s Gonna Be Alright – One World Records Forthcoming Lady Wray – Under The Sun – Piece Of Me LP Legacy – Boy You’ve Been Acting Strange – Soul Direction The LA Propinquity – That Someone’s U - Aljoni Musico (Super Disco Edits) Lee Fields – Ordinary Lives - Colemine Tommy McGee – We Ought To Be Together – Jai Alai Bobby Harden – Feels So Good – Dala Records The Sounds of Oakland – Nobodies Home – Music From The Streets CD (Featuring Jesse James, Derick Hughes, T Marvin Williams, Freddie Hughes & Levi Seacer Jr.) Jesse James – Father We’re Having Trouble Down Here – Soul Junction Forthcoming Kent Drake – Mistaken – North Broad Street Records Forthcoming The Symphonies – That’s What Love Will Do – Hit & Run Allison & The South Funk Boulevard - Its Love – Epsilon Records Forthcoming Ray Williams & The Majortones – Girl Don’t Leave Me – Epsilon (Long Version) Allison & The South Funk Boulevard – Pay Before You Lay – Epsilon Records Forthcoming Unknown Artist – Show You – Preservation Project King George & The Fabulous Souls – I Need You – Soul Direction Origins Inez Foxx – Because I Love Him – Hayley Delegates Of Soul – Girl I’m At Your Door – Hit & Run The Dramatics – I’ve Got To Find Myself A New Love – Hayley Randolph Brown & Company – It Ain’t Like It Used To Be – Shotgun Forthcoming Music Makers Band – You Can Be – Now & Then Christopher Williams – Fine As Gold (T-Groove Remix) - SixNineRecords Jherimi Harmoni – Rain On My Star – Izipiho Soul
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He was well clued up with what was happening here, he was in regular contact with Brits, Brad I think in particular.
This weeks show with Dean, Gez and Shoey with two hours of great music
Someone also sent me the program digitally as well
This is a great poster. Sold for $800 plus if I remember rightly on an auction site
Sounds like Mancha to me
Don't think there is a specific UK demo so it will have been stamped with the "A" to differentiate from the regular issue copy. No tax etc is paid on demos.
looks well dodgy
Shoey, Neil Clarke, joins Dean and Gez in the studio for some great Soul music across the genres.
Surprised me mate as I’d known since the early 90s.
I thought that was well known now…
Blue Rock isn’t local though is it? It was Mercury’s label for soul/R&B. Bit like Loma was for WB. The Blue Rock label was put on hold at the time this was scheduled for release so probably the reason it was switched to Mercury with some test presses pressed on Blue Rock. The stamped dead wax on the Blue Rock copy shows the Mercury #'s of YW1-36600/36601. The ebay listing details are on 45cat.
Couldn’t see it on Darren’s site so don’t know the price but the issue is far rarer than the demo
Really sad news R.I.P. Johnny
Last nights show (13-01-22) with exclusive radio plays of the forthcoming MD Records releases from the Sensations and New Loves.
Happy New Year to all listeners. Here is the first show of 2022.
They are different paragraphs and two different stories. That is how the mag was laid out. I also posted the Goodway bit in the Silhouette’s topic.
If you really want something different then look for somewhere outside your comfort zone, Djs you don’t know, seek a playlist or review, see what is offered on the flyer. There are venues out there that offer something different to others across all the various sides of the scene, but upfront, they are few and far between. Probably just the 100 club that can really call itself that as they have two Djs who have more new discoveries than anywhere. Kitch has bunch of great exclusives too.
Because it isn’t top 500 does not make it upfront. The upfront scene isn’t top 500, but they have their own top 500, probably less. Its the same for crossover scene, the same bunch of records you see time and time again on playlists. What is upfront anyway? What is underplayed? Underplayed where, on the oldies scene no doubt but on the so called upfront they are probably overplayed but because they differ from the classics people have a different mentality of how they think about these records If all you have done is attend venues that plays the classics or oldies then venues that play something different to the classics will offer then something different. It doesn’t make then upfront or cutting edge. Those days are long gone.
I was thinking this whilst out walking, there is a ton of recently releases material, new and old but there is some kind of snobbery towards them, same with cheap records that aren't necessarily rare. Yet for some reason promoters and Djs by and large ignore them or think they are a no go area.
I've heard of low attendances, and I mean really low, barely into double figures for some of the prominent "upfront" venues. The only all-nighter on this weekend, just over a 100 I was told by someone there. Yet oldies venues are packing them in, Blackpool etc I know there are extenuating circumstances but I don't think the appetite is there. The all-nighter scene is on its arse from what I see. I am really choosy now as to where I go. I want to hear unknowns, I know however the chances of that are really slim. The ones I do quality control is often seriously lacking. I am all for something different but different for the sake of it I am not prepared to pay good money for. I really thought the lockdowns and the time people have had to reflect would have brought about a change but if anything it is worse than it was before all this started. Here is to a better outlook for 2022 and maybe change will be delivered, the scene really needs it.
