Podcast - Steve Aggasild - SoulAndJazzFlavas 19 Apr 2021

I've been considering this for a while and have decided to feature 'essential' podcasts of UK soul radio shows.

The ones I listen to regularly are:

Fri. 7pm-9pm Kevin Oxberry - The Friday Night Rotation

Fri. Franklin Sinclair - The New Music Hour

Sat. Mick O'Donell - Soul Discovery (Mick used to do a regular show and then went off the air for several years but is now back on TWR and seems now to do only a fornightly show on Saturday evenings)

Sun. 2pm-4pm Shaun Evans - The Triple S Show 

Sun. 8pm-10pm - Mark Merry - The Soul Sermon

Sun. 10pm-Midnight - Roger Wiliiams - SoulSorts

Mon. 6pm-8pm Steve Aggasild - SoulAndJazzFlavas

If you know of any others that should be in the list then please leave a comment. NB they MUST be real soul related not dedicated to neo soul/R&B (they don't have to be UK based).

Each week I'll feature one of the podcasts from above starting this week with Steve Aggasild who unfortunately doesn't publish his playlists so I've been through it cataloguing each track.

If any of the presenters above wish to be (or not to be) featured then please drop me a message at soulstrutter@gmail.com with some background on your career.

Steve Aggasild - The Soul Master

Steve Aggasild is the 'daddy' of all presenters who has the record of having the longest running soul radio show in the world. After a baptism in hospital radio, he started broadcasting his soul show on Aberdeen's North Sound radio in April 1982 and his show ran for 30 years until he had to end it owing to overseas work commitments in 2012.  

He became known as 'The Soul Master' which is a name he still uses for his Mixcloud podcasts of his show. I've known Steve since 1976 as we frequented the same soul clubs/events when I was living/studying in Aberdeen and still have many of the shows he broadcast on North Sound in the 80s on cassette, which I may eventually get around to digitising and posting.

After several years on Starpoint, Steve has recently joined Soul Groove Radio and now presents his weekly two hour show on Monday evenings between 6pm-8pm.

Steve will be DJing at the Back To Love soul weekender in Sep. 2021 at Southport with many of the country's top DJs and live acts such as Cool Million, Natasha Watts, Kenny Thomas. Soulutions, Cornell CC Carter, The Terry Green Project and Kim Tavar.

For the first hour Steve plays vintage tunes from his 'soul library' and ends the hour with three slow jams. The second hour is dedicated to new releases and contemporary soul and jazz. The first hour regularly throws up tunes I've forgotten about and reminds me just how good they are and others which I never even knew about.

Here's a run down of what he played on his latest show with links to tracks already posted on this blog. 

The forthcoming release by S.E.L. is one to look out for. I believe her debut album 'Loc’d in Consciousness' has been released on CD on 9 Apr 2021 but it will not be available digitally until the end of May.

Tracklist:

1st Hour - Classics

Freddie Hubbard & Jeanne Tracy - You're Gonna Lose Me [1981 - 12" / Splash LP - Fantasy]

Renee Diggs (Starpoint) Feat. Phil Perry - All My Love [1993 - Oasis LP - Expansion]

Tony! Toni! Tone! - I Couldn't Keep It To Myself [1993 - Sons Of Soul LP - Mercury]

Charlie Wilson (Gap Band) -  Realize [1992 - You Turn My Life Around LP - Bon Ami/MCA]

Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - Doing It To Death [1973 - 7" / Doing It To Death LP - People]

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat [2001 - 7"/12"/CDS / Aaliya LP - Blackground]

Aretha Franklin - A Rose Is Still A Rose [1997 - 12"/CDS / A Rose Is Still A Rose LP  - Arista]

Chantay Savage - My Oh My [1999 - 12"/CDS / This Time LP - RCA]

Slow Jams

W.R. Sanders - Angels [2015 - Believe N CDr - Self Released]

#The only album/release from W. R. Sanders

Loretta Feat. Gimenez G. - So Alive [2014 - Find A Way LP - Vaziva (FR)]

#French soul singer aka Laure Céline Gelas and Laure Milan who released two other album in 2006 and 2008 as Laure Milan.

Pieces Of A Dream - Goodbye Manhattan [1995 - Goodbye Manhattan LP - Blue Note]

2nd Hour - New Releases

*Output/Input - Sugarloaf Mountain [2021 - Digital - Self Released]

*S.E.L. - Melodic Harmony [2021 - from forthcoming Loc’d in Consciousness LP - Self Released]

Joyce Wrice - Chandler [2021 - Overgrown LP - Self Released]

Cool Million Feat. Fraser - Next Level [2021 - Digital - Cool Million Records]

MS1 Project Feat. Jerome Vintage - Start Me Up [2021 - DG - Self Released]

Raja-Nee' Feat. ThaSaint and Wilfred Frelix - Come And Get This Love [2021 - Digital - JARF Music Group]

Jazzy D Feat. Sophia Ripley - Free [2021 - Digital - forthcoming]

TanQueray Hayward - Standing All Alone [2021 - Definition Of A Woman LP - Self Released]

Danny B Live - Track Meet [2021 - Note To Self LP - Self Released]

The Bruce Gardner Experience - JUSWANNALUVU [2021 - DULCET EP - GSV Music]

Deirdre Gaddis - The Girl I Used To Be [2021 - D-E-I-R-D-R-E Keep Pushin' LP Woodgrayne Ent.]

Terry - I.O.U. [2021 - #TheEvolutionOfMe LP TJH Music]

Zo! & Tall Black Guy etc. - Hold My Hand [2021 - Abstractions - The Foreiegn Exchange Music]

Reel People & Raheem DeVaughn - DeJa Vu [2021 - Digital - Reel People Music]

ROE Feat. DJ Battlecat - Baby [2021 - Digital - Self Released]

Tristan - Looking Back [2021 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong LP - Isolde]