Soul Strutter: The Dirty Dozen - The Best Of 2022... Part 30 (Jul 2022 Wk 30) Spotify Playlist

Sunday 31 July 2022

The Dirty Dozen - The Best Of 2022... Part 30 (Jul 2022 Wk 30) Spotify Playlist

SoulStrutter selections of the best releases this week

(Jul 2022 Wk 30)

In no particular order other than tempo.

I'm sorry to say it's been another poor week for good quality new releases. So much so that I struggled got find twelve worthy enough to feature in this week's main dozen. I had hoped that one or two may have cropped up in today's releases but unfortunately not. Therefore, I've had to take a few liberties to make up a full dozen and have included four tracks that should really be in the covers/reissues dozen i.e. Angel Sessions is a reissue from 1999, Alanna Royale is a vinyl reissue from last year, Verne 'VA' Allison is a reworking of a song he wrote that was recorded by The Dells in 2000 and Miracle Thomas is a cover of Juicy's 1985 "Sugar Free".

So, ruling those four out, left only eight to choose from for this week's SoulStrutter Selection of the Week and I've decided to go for The Jack Moves new single "Seabra".

To be perfectly honest it was either that or Beyonce's "Plastic Off The Sofa" but I'm sure selecting that, I would never have lived that down. I hope DJs get behind it though, as contrary to what I wrote about the new Chaka Khan single, although Beyonce is mainstream, this song is chosen on merit not because of who she is, but there will be those who will refuse to play it because of who she is which is not right either!

The new Avery*Sunshine album has a couple of good tracks (included below), but more than half the tracks are live which precluded it from selection. Alanna Royale is superb and has already been chosen as SSSotW when it was released last July.

2022

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