ASHLEY SCOTT: Love You For All Time (Expansion)
ASHLEY SCOTT is a Philadelphia born and raised singer/songwriter and we’ve been tracking his career since 2016 when he debuted with a fine single, a stately, building ballad, ‘Words’. Intrigued, we learned that the...
DURAND JONES and the INDICATIONS; Flowers (Dead Oceans)
By now all self-respecting soul fans will know about DURAND JONES and the INDICATIONS. If you don’t they’re a mixed race soul fivesome who formed in 2012 when, as students at Indiana University in...
VARIOUS: New Breed R&B, Money Talks (Ace/Kent)
This gritty 25 track album is the fifth compilation from Ace imprint Kent to turn the spotlight on “New Breed R&B” – yet another soul sub-genre. We believe the category was actually named by...
VAN MORRISON; Remembering Now (Exile)
VAN MORRISON is nothing if not prolific; the man just loves making music. This new album is his 47th. studio album and it sees him return to the format that made him a music...
THE 7:45s: Spinning (LRK)
Named after the 7-inch 45-rpm single, Manchester’s The 7:45s were formed in late 2016 with a manifesto pledge to release original singles in styles that span the soul spectrum: from northern soul to disco...
VARIOUS: Love Train (Ace/Kent)
Philly soul maestros KENNY GAMBLE and LEON HUFF are the latest “backroom boys” to be lauded in Ace/Kent’s magnificent ‘Songwriter Series’… an ongoing project of compilation albums that offer retrospectives of the work of...
VARIOUS: Soul 66 (Strawberry)
1966? Yes, I remember it well! A lot happened that year England, of course, won the World Cup, we had a proper socialist government, university education was free, the NHS was delivering and modern...
ISAAC ARAGON: The Healing (Soul Of NM Music)
ISAAC ARAGON is a singer/songwriter originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico but if you follow this web site you’ll probably know that already. We’ve been tracking, enjoying and recommending Isaac’s music since 2019 when he...
CARWYN ELLIS & RIO 18; Fontana Rosa (Legere)
The music biz is plagued with genres, definitions and pigeon-holing . Here, though, is an album that defies labelling and it’s all the better for that. The ten tracker that is ‘Fontana Rosa’ is...
