JESSE JAMES – GET IN TOUCH WITH ME CD £15.95
Veteran southern soul singer returns with his best in a while. 'Get In Touch With Me' is a classic southern soul mid tempo ballad, in fact it could be one of his best ever. 'I Can't Help But Smile' is a slow beat ballad. On the message song 'It's Time For A Change' Jesse sounds like a little like Frankie Beverly, 'Share Your Love' and the mid tempo 'Smoke and Fire' are also good and 'Visiting Rights' will appeal to the slow jam crew. 'If He Cant Hold His Pants Up' provides some humour and a message. Solid album.

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MARC EVANS – THE WAY YOU LOVE ME DELUXE REISSUE DOUBLE CD £13.95
This album has attained cult status and it is nice to see it back out again with a second CD of remixes and a couple of unreleased songs – the nice soulful House of ‘She Is’ and the mellow ‘Come Bother Me’. The remixes include the MuthFunkin Soul and Dim’s T.S.O.P.version part 1 mixes of ‘The Way U Love Me’. The original album, which forms CD one on this set is Soulful house at its very best featuring soulful vocals from Mark. 'The Way U Love Me' , 'Given Me Joy', ''Am I Crazy' ' This Thing Called Love' and the more percussive 'Reach Out Love', Beneath The Cresent Moon' are all great soulful house dancers. There's also a couple of good covers of Teddy's 'I Don't Love You Anymore' and Womack's 'Put Something Down On It' and a soulful mid tempo 'The Promise'.

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JEFF RAMSEY –MY BEST CD £12.95
Quality independent soul album with really good soulful vocals. 'Just let Me Love You' and Anything' are nice upper mid tempo dancers, 'Be Careful' is more uptempo. The mid tempo tracks 'Give it My Best' 'I Know What You Want', 'I Want You More' and Fly So High' are good to groove to and Now That I've Found You' is a really nice beat ballad. Good contemporary album with an old school feel to it.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS – DAPTONE GOLD CD £13.95
21 track set that picks out some of the great musical moments from the Daptone label.  The mix of funk and Soul harks back to the sound of the late 60’s and early 70’s.  There are several tracks from Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings including the infectious ‘How Long do I Have To Wait’ and the JB inspired ‘Got A Thing On My Mind’.  Try also Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens’ Soul drenched ‘What Have You Done’.  Contributions from The Budos Band, Binky Griptite, Sugarman & Co and Charles Bradley make this one superb compilation

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GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – EARLY CD £15.95
This album was sung, written, recorded and produced by Georgia Anne Muldrow as a 17 year old by herself!  There is a rawness and edgy quality to the music., mixing many influences like Roy Ayers, Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu.   Tracks like ‘Sunset’ and ‘Keep It Real combine a Hip Hop vibe with Soul.. If you liked SIlhoeutte Brown’s album from around the same time this could be for you.

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MARY J BLIGE – STRONGER WITH EACH TEAR CD £14.95
Mary J makes a more straight ahead R&B approach for much of the album. 'I feel Good' is a strong R&b soul upper mid tempo , 'I Am' a imd tempo plodder and 'Hood Love' ft Try Songz a nice R&b ballad.
The killer tracks though are the soul beat ballads 'In The Morning' and the slower Raphael Saadiq produced 'I Can See Colour' on which she excels and shows that with the right material is a really good soul singer.

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