Earlier this year the independent Mascot label group announced they were setting up a new subsidiary label specialising in funk and soul… the Funk Garage. Intriguingly we were told that a certain Bootsy Collins...
TRACYE EILEEN is a Chicago-based soul and jazz singer who’s worked the city’s circuit for some time now. Reared in gospel, she’s built up quite a following, a following that is set to expand...
‘Out Of Control’ is the latest single from US soulstress CANDACE WOODSON.We first heard of Candace back in 2015 when she released the insistent mid-tempo modern soul groove, ‘Free’. Intriguingly, Candace’s ‘Free’ was intensely...
Portland’s TYRONE HENDRIX is an in-demand jazz and soul session drummer and he occasionally makes his own solo records too. His latest incursion is a pulsing soul groove ‘Off The Top’ which features input...
Don’t know too much about singer/producer D FOLKS save that he hails from Richmond, Virginia and that his latest single, ‘The Truth’ is a proper soul stunner – one of 2020’s best so far....
Last year Geordie collective SMOOVE AND TURRELL celebrated 10 years in the music biz with ‘Sold Brass’ – a compilation of their best bits alongside a couple of previously unissued cuts to work as...
The latest single from blue-eyed soul don ROBIN THICKE is a beautiful ballad that works on two specific fronts. The song is ‘Forever Mine’ and the singer says that the song reflects what’s going...
ALEC WILDER (1907-1980) was a major contributor to the “Great American Songbook” – but unlike, say Cole Porter, Wilder is not that well known. Some musicologists suggest that it’s because much of his work...
