A superb jazz flavoured album "Midnight Soul" by Tony DeWayne was tipped to me by Roger Williams last week.
The publishing date states 2016 and it was released digitally on 4 Jul
2021.
It's a bit of a mystery as from the sleeve photo I would guess his attire
is from the 90s. There is an entry on Discogs for a Tony DeWayne aka
Anthony Crosley / Diamond Crosley. He is credited as one of the musicians
on Paul Tillman Smith's "A Beautiful Heart" album from 2017 but there are
also credits for writing "Lovestruck 1980" on Con Funk Shun's "Spirit Of
Love" album in 1980.
I also found the full album posted on YouTube by
Ben Kova
on 20 Jan 2020 who posted this:
"I found several hundred brand new/sealed CD's of this entire record
from a storage unit in Vallejo, CA that I won from a storage unit
auction website. The unit was clearly Tony's (Dewayne Anthony Lee
Johnson) as it had many of his personal items, awards/accolades, musical
equipment, letters, photos, etc. The findings were very neat along with
this great music he made. I decided to upload this entire record
for the rest of the world to enjoy. This album is called Midnight Soul
from Mo Soul Records, not sure what year this record was produced and/or
released. I imagine this was made in the early 90's. If you happen
to know any information about this record, or of Tony himself, feel free
to reach out.
I have his birth certificate as well from the Vallejo, CA General
Hospital that reads his birth given is Dewayne Anthony Lee Johnson and
he was born to De Lois Harvey on January 20, 1972.!"
I had a little dig around BMI and it appears he used different writing
aliases as "Lovestruck 1980" is credited to T. Crossley and Michael
Cooper. There are three songs credited to Anthony Dewayne Crossley, two of
them also written with Con Funk Shun's Michael Cooper who was also born
in Vallejo, CA, (Bay Area) so I assume they must have been friends
and therefore also not surprising that he has been involved with Paul
Tillman Smith.
Wow .. I just discovered this
.. surely it can't be a 'coincidence', same name, same age, same location?
He won a $289 million dollar lawsuit against Monsanto Co.(manufacturers of
Roundup) in 2018 after being diagnosed as terminally ill
with non-Hodgkin lymphoma blamed on the use of chemical herbicides. There is also another report by The Guardian. The award has been appealed three times and has been reduced. There is plenty of other information about the case on the net.
Click icons below for further information or to connect with the
artist.
| Rating: | 8.6 |
| Genre/Style: | Soul Jazz |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | DGRP Bay Sound Records |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 04/07/2021 |
| Value: | £7.99 |
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