Soul Strutter: 10/01/23

Sunday, 1 October 2023

Soul Associates Top 30 Wk 38 (w/e 24 Sep 2023)

A podcast of this week's Soul Associates Top 30 2023 Wk 38 (w/e 24 Sep 2023) presented by Steve Aggasild.

		Top 30 Wk 38 (w/e 24 Sep 2023)
Pos	Last	Artist - Title/Artist - Album
1	7	Rob Hardt - Good Time For Good Times LP
2	4	Jalen Ngonda - Come Around And Love Me LP
3	2	Lamone feat. William Prince - Strive
4	3	Output / Input - Forward Motion LP
5	1	Marcus Machado - Blue Diamonds LP
6	5	Sabrina Starke - Love the Mystery
7	17	The New Mosaic - Working Thru Things
8	12	Orlando Dixon - Soft Life
9	6	Ruby Wood - Sincerely EP
10	18	Joslyn & the Sweet Compression - Bona Fide LP
11	19	The Motet - Natural Light
12	13	Chris Crain feat. Eric Roberson - Stay
13	8	Ashleigh Smith - Can't Help It
14	10	Ty Causey - Faithful & True LP
15	14	Linda Woodson - Come A Little Closer LP
16	26	Dalona - In Love W/ A Leo
17	27	Kirra. B - Touch
18	29	Terrace Martin & James Fauntleroy - Nova EP
19	B1	Searchlight feat. Manny - Long Time
20	NE	A.S.K. - Rewind
21	20	Tyrese - Love Transaction
22	NE	Conya Doss feat. B. Golden - 4everlasting
23	NE	Incognito - Into You LP
24	15	Robyn Springer - Crazy Bout You
25	16	Izo Fitzroy - Small Mercies (Art Of Tones Remix)
26	30	Shindellas - Shindo LP
27	9	Farah Audhali & Blue Lab Beats - Favourite
28	B2	Keke Wyatt - Water Into Wine
29	B6	Benjamin Race feat. Ellison Kendrick - Take You Home
30	NE	Configa & Sulpacio Jones feat. T Slack - Hot Like Me
		BREAKERS
B1	NE	BJ The Chicago Kid & Coco Jones - Spend The Night
B1	NE	Lizzie Berchie - Am I An Adult Yet? EP
B1	NE	Zenesoul - Crown
B4	NE	Terrace Martin & Alex Isley - Paradise
B5	NE	Tammy Harris - He
B6	NE	Maleah - Feels Good

L. Young [2023] - Come Get To This [4ever Young Entertainment]

Perhaps motivated by the 50th anniversary of "Let's Get It On", from where "Come Get To This" originated, is an admirable new cover by L. Young released on 26 Sep. Faithful to the original and even looking a little like Marvin of the cover image with the beard and headgear.

Surprisingly, there aren't too many covers of the song that we know of. The first by Nancy Wilson on her 1975 album of the same name, Bobbi Humphrey semi-inst. jazz version ("City Beat" 1988) and more recent versions by L.J. Reynolds ("Get To This" 2011), Joe ("Signature" 2012) and K-Jon ("Man" 2013). There are one or two others which are not particularly worthy versions.

His last single was also a cover of Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" in Nov '22 and prior to that an original song "I Ain't Gonna Waste Your Time" (Mar '22). You may recall a single he released on vinyl on Soultownie in 2019, an excellent modern soul double-sider which included "Can't Get You Off My Mind" / "Ms-Supa Thick".

L. Young (Lawrence Terron Young) was born in Louisville, KY, and is a singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, keyboardist based in L.A. who, to date,,has released five albums "They Just Don't Know" (2004), "The 12th Letter" (2008), "ReVerb" (2013) and "4Ever Young" (2015) and "Wrinkles in Time" (2018)

The title track from the album "ReVerb" ("Love Is A Verb") gave L. Young his first radio hit and top #20 Billboard Urban A/C chart hit. "Wrinkles in Time" saw 3 singles go to #1 on the UK Soul Charts.

He has appeared on stage with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Seal, David Foster, BabyFace, Eric Benet, Aaron Neville, Lalah Hathaway, Toni Tony Tone', Mint Condition, En Vogue, Patti LaBelle, Toni Braxton, Gladys Knight, Keith Sweat, and Teena Marie just to name a few.

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Details

Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / Cover Version
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	4ever Young Entertainment / Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	26/09/2023
Key/BPM:	8B/114
Price:	£1

Car'letta [2023] - Stop Whatcha Doing [Self Released]

Car'letta (Carletta Michelle Bush) grew up in Burke County, SC, moving to Jacksonville aged 20 in 1999. She has sung all her life starting in Church and school choirs.

She has opened shows for Zapp, MD Force, Troop, Leela James and Kenny Lattimore.

Her debut single "Nobody's Fool", a nice southern soul stepper, was released in Jan 2018. (included below) followed with "Act Right" in Oct 2019.

She has now delivered her third single "Stop Whatcha Doing".

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Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Southern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	28/09/2023
Key/BPM:	6B/106
Price:	£1

Gloria Weems [2023] - Lovelight [Freestyle Records] (Full Album Reissue)

A digital and vinyl reissue of a quite rare 1983 boogie funk album "Lovelight" by South African singer Gloria Weems.

It appears to be her only album from which two singles, "Wanna Dance With You" and "Push It Up", were released, all in 1983. The album was only released in South Africa but the first single got a 12" release on Prelude in the US.

To be honest it's not really our thing as it has that 'tinny' early/mid 80s production that just doesn't stand the test of time (to our ears at least) but the French, in particular, seem to rave on this sort of material. We have a truck load of this sort of stuff on promo 12" from back in the day that doesn't get anywhere near a stylus then or now, so probably needs a better home that appreciates it.

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Details

Rating:	7.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Boogie Funk
Format:	Album / Reissue
Media:	Digital / Vinyl
Label:	Freestyle Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/09/2023
Price:	£3.49 / £23.99

Sir Soundbender [2023] - Trust UR Heart (Remixes) [Self Released]

We've not come across Sir Soundbender previously but these remixes are by Mortimer Snerd III so we wonder if it's yet another alias for Steve 'Miggedy' Maestro (aka Stephen Maskall).

It's a reworking of Bobby Womack's "Trust Your Heart" from "Pieces" (1978) which he co-wrote with Leon Ware and Don Davis and featured David Ruffin on backing vocals and the female backing voice you hear is Brandye. If you're a regular visitor you may recall that we posted his, Japanese only, 12:47 (on CD) recording of the song on June Yamagishi's 1988 "My Pleasure" album which was re-titled "Give My Love A Try".

There is a vocal and a drum mix, we've only posted the vocal ("Trust UR Heart MS III Full Dizko Slap") as the drum mix is rather monotonous and probably only useful for DJ remixes.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Modern Soul / Re-work
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/09/2023
Key/BPM:	8B/122
Price:	£1

TMF The Music Forever [2023] - Making Love to the Music [Self Released]

If the sound of TMF The Music Forever sounds familiar it's because they are a seven piece group made up of former members of Maze. The line up is Chris Walker (lead vocals), Roame Lowry (conga/vocals), John 'Jubu' Smith (guitar/vocals), Vance Taylor (keys), Bear Williams (bass/vocals), Calvin Napper (drums), and Daniel Weatherspoon (keys & organ).

They are mainly a live act but have released a debut single "Making Love to the Music" written by Chris Walker and if this is the sort of stuff we are to expect from them then bring it on. Magical, timeless, smooth soul music of the finest quality.

Below is a 45 minute interview with all band members.

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Details

Rating:	8.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/09/2023
Key/BPM:	9B/84
Price:	£1

Mayer Hawthorne [2023] - Without You [P&L Records]

We posted the title track, "For All Time" by Mayer Hawthorne from his forthcoming album (due 27 Oct) on 3 Sep. It was the second single pre-released and today comes the third "Without You". Not as instant as the last single but more blue-eyed retro soul.

Follow the link to previous single above for a little info on Hawthorne and to listen to the previous two singles, "For All Time" and "The Pool".

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Details

Rating:	7.9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Retro Soul / Blue-Eyed
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	P&L Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/09/2023
Key/BPM:	9B/95
Price:	£1

Relyae [2023] - Moonlight [PLYGRND]

Brooklyn's (NYC) Relyae (Shearaton Relyea Carter) has featured here several times, generally with, or as, a featured artist. For his latest single "Moonlight", which is difficult to pigeon-hole as it's contemporary but with an 80s feel, he's solo.

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Details

Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	PLYGRND
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/09/2023
Key/BPM:	10A/117
Price:	£1