Bob Holmes' Nashville Soul 
Various Artists
CDKEND463
Kent Records 
Format: Audio CD
Release Date 17th April 2017
In the 60s and 70s, Nashville was a hothouse of R&B, soul and jazz. Bob Holmes was a central character.
Preview clip from release notes by Ady Croasdell follows below...
With the publication of E Mark Windle’s book House Of Broken Hearts, the city of Nashville’s black music scene is being studied in detail for the first time since Kent issued the CDs “Uptown Down South” and “Music City Soul” in the late 90s. To coordinate with the book we are releasing another compilation of Nashville soul, this time concentrating on the work of multi-talented songwriter, producer and arranger Bob Holmes. Those earlier CDs featured Excello/A-Bet and Poncello/Ref-O-Ree recordings respectively. This new collection also draws from those sources, plus Bob Holmes’ personal tapes and other third-party licenses. The time span is 1965 to 1980.
Tracks
Side 101   Runaway Girl - The Hytones
02   Leave It Up To The Boys - Sandra King
03   Got To Get Used To You - The Avons
04   Sweet Way Of Living - Peggy Gaines
05   I Dedicate My Life To You - Roger Hatcher
06   You Must Leave Her Because You Love Her - The Paramount Four
07   Don't Make Me Look So Bad - Freddie North
08   You Never Had It So Good - Eddie Frierson
09   Girl Watching On Broadway - Little Rock Brotherhood
10   The Streets Got My Lady - Bill Brandon
11   Under Your Powerful Love - Joe Tex
12   Somebody Somewhere - Gene Allison
13   Grooviest Thing This Side Of Heaven - Wendell Watts
14   Tip On In Pt 1 - Slim Harpo
15   I Can't Love Nobody But You - Roscoe Shelton
16   Don't Let It Get You Down, Boy - Freddie Waters
17   Say Boy - The Tydes
18   Oo Gilly Baby - The Avons & The Hytones
19   I've Got My Baby - The Hytones
20   Crying Won't Help You Now - Johnny Truitt
21   Right In The Palm Of Your Hand - Jimmy Church
22   I Know (It's All Over) - The Golden Bond
23   Steady - Eddie & Freddie
24   Let's Try Love Again - Ruthie
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