Soul Strutter: 03/03/24

Sunday, 3 March 2024

VA [2024] - Tamera Hill's: Workplace Drama 'The Soundtrack' [Hidden Gem Entertainment]

"Tamera Hill's: Workplace Drama 'The Soundtrack'" is, as the title implies, the soundtrack for a workplace comedy drama (about the stereo types in the workplace and the drama that follows them home) containing 24 tracks.

The comedy movie has been available to stream on Hidden Gem Entertainment since Nov '23.

The track making the biggest noise is "What A Woman Needs" feat. William Buckhalter. There are two versions of the song as a remix is also included, which takes the tempo up from 61 BPM to 70 BPM, and features R. Cory Johnson.

Johnson features on eight of the tracks, two of which, "Meaning Of Love" and "Good Lovin", appeared on on his album "Collages of Music and Love , Vol. 1" in Jun '23 and another, "More Of You", as a single the same day as his album, but not included on the album.

Curiously, when researching William Buckhalter (who is a life coach from L.A.) we found a video from Oct '23 covering Musiq Soulchild's "Just Friends (Sunny)" (included below) which has just received a remix by DJ Soulchild. It doesn't appear to have been officially released as a single.

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album / Compilation
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/02/2024
Price:	£7.99

Steve Aggasild [2024-03-01] - Soul Struttin' [Soul Music Radio]

This Friday's "Soul Struttin'" show from Steve Aggasild on Soul Music Radio broadcast on 1st March 2024 between 21:00-23:00 GMT.

First hour classic oldies and second hour current sounds from 2024

Steve does a show Fri 21:00-23:00 (GMT) on Soul Music Radio and another on Tue between 20:00-22:20 on Panacea Radio,

Catch up with other SoulAndJazzFlavas podcasts at Mixcloud or from 27 Jun 2022 onwards Podbean

Playlist:

Artist	Track (Album)	Year
John Legend	Live It Up (Get Lifted)	2004
Jill Scott feat. Anthony Hamilton	So In Love (The Light Of The Sun)	2011
Joey Diggs	Your Love Keeps Working On Me (BeBe's Kids OST)	1992
John Stoddart	Falling For You (Wings To Walk This Road)	2003
Kenny Lattimore	More Than Life (Vulnerable)	2017
Margi Coleman	How I Miss You (Margi)	1995
Maysa	Hypnotic Love (Smooth Sailing)	2004
Aretha Franklin	Integrity (Who's Zoomin' Who?)	1985
Martine Girault	Revival (Rebirth Edit)	1995
Nathan Mitchell feat. Doobie Powell	Do I Do (Presents Donny, Duke & Wonder)	2020
April Hill	The Search (Love 360)	2007
Antonio Mclendon	That's The Way (Welcome 2 Groove City Volume One)	2016
Al Johnson	I've Got My Second Wind (Back For More)	1980
Taylor Pace feat. Amber Navran	More Than Chemistry	2024
Tommy Francisco	Making Love To You	2024
Donald Hayes feat. Robin Thicke & Brian Culbertson	Come Dance With Me	2024
Lin Rountree feat. Jessica Jolia	Think Of Me	2024
Rae Khalil	Is It Worth It	2024
Stefan Mahendra	Keep On Movin	2024
Blue Lab Beats, Farah Audhali, & Amber Navran	Wait A While (Blue Eclipse)	2024
Aloe Blacc & Otis McDonald	Simple Man	2024
Jalen Ngonda	Illusions	2024
Ledisi	Good Life (Good Life)	2024
Ledisi	Magic (Voila)	2024
Ledisi	Keep U In Mind (Good Life)	2024
Patricia Knight-Scott	Your Love	2024
Callas Dozier	Possibility	2024
JuJu	Clã Samba (Colin Curtis presents Jazz Dance Fusion Vol 4)	2024
C2 Juju	Wanting Touch (Inst.) (Colin Curtis presents J azz Dance Fusion Vol 4)	2024

Shantel May feat. Lola Brooke [2024] - Love It Here [MNRK Records]

On the same label as the Jaz Karis & Tone Stith current single ("Met You At A Bar") comes another from Toronto's Shantel May feat. Brooklyn, NYC, rapper Lola Brooke.

Their collaborative single "Love It Here" samples elements of the Isley's "Footsteps In The Dark" which was covered by Jarrod Lawson two years ago now in Apr '22 and before him in 2020 by SiR and Maysa on "Love Is A Battlefield" in 2017, keeping The Isley's royalties coffers enriched.

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	MNRK Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/02/2024
Key/BPM:	10A/91
Price:	£1

Songbird Ivy [2024] - Best Life [Self Released] (Full Album)

A new name to us is Stephanie 'Songbird' Ivy from St. Louis, MO, who has released a debut album "Best Life".

She seems to have emerged last year in March with four singles all released on the same day and another two later in the month. To date she's now released 13 singles, most of them feature on the 11 track album.

A few of the highlights, for us, includes "Cloud 9" (which samples sections of Bell & Creed's "You Are Everything"), "You Can Be Loved", "Hits Differently" and the title track "Best Life".

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Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	28/02/2024
Price:	£7.99

Raheem DeVaughn [2024] - Winter In Love [Self Released] (EP)

On Valentine's Day Raheem DeVaughn released "Winter Of Love", the third of a trilogy following "Summer Of Love" (21 Jun '23) and "Fall In Love" (21 Nov '23). No doubt there may be a "Spring Of Love" in due course?

This release is very different though, there's no point looking for it in the usual places as it's exclusively available to download from Even.biz streaming platform.

The highlight from the eight track set is his new version of L.T.D.'s "Love Ballad" (1976) which George Benson covered with a more uptempo version and turned into a worldwide hit in 1979.

There are surprisingly few other versions of such an iconic song, Second Hand Songs lists only another 9 vocal and three instrumental versions.

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@barneykhumalo Raheem DeVaughn “Love Ballad” #raheendevaughn #soulfulmusic #jefferyosborne ♬ original sound - Barney

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Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul / R&B
Format:	EP
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	14/02/2024
Price:	£Name Your Price

The Nu'rons [2024] - Anthology Of Jersey Soul (Collectors Edition) [Emandolynn Music] (Full Album)

Last October a five track EP by The Nu'rons, "The Philly Soul Sessions", was released by Manny Campbell's Emandolynn Music. It is now followed with a 14 track album, "Anthology Of Jersey Soul", containing unreleased demos and instrumentals along with the five tracks previously released, four of the five songs on their only two singles released and an unreleased demo.

With instrumentals of two of their singles, and "Hurry Up Tomorrow", a previously unreleased song, being released by Symphonical in 2017, it leaves four new songs and a few variants of released songs, one is an acapella version of The Beatles "Yesterday".

According to the credits, the songs were recorded at Sigma Sound studios and musicians included some Philly heavyweights such as Thom Bell (keys), Earl Young (drums), Bobby Eli (guitar and MFSB (strings).

To learn more about the group please read the post for "The Philly Soul Sessions".

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Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Philly Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Emandolynn Music
Cat No:	None
Date:	24/02/2024
Price:	$20

VA [2024] - Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels [Numero Group] (Full Album)

Numero Group has reissued a 15th anniversary edition of "Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels" digitally and on vinyl. They have already reissued the Capsoul compilation and will be reissuing further compilations in their Eccentric series released over the last 20 years.

It's a slightly cut down version from the 2009 CD version with 34 of the original 50 tracks (presumably to fit them on a double vinyl album), but worth the price for The Four Tracks "Charade" alone (along with plenty of other rarities) which sells for approaching £500 on original vinyl. If we're not mistaken this may the the first vinyl reissue of it.

Other highlights also include a few from Eula Cooper such as "Try", "I Need You More" and one of her NS favs "Standing By Love", a couple from Young Divines and Sonia Ross.

Tragar and Note, along with Super Sound, were Atlanta, GA, based labels run by Jesse Jones and released material from 1968-76. Many are now in-demand items on the rare soul scene.

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Rare Soul
Format:	Album / Compilation
Media:	Digital / Vinyl
Label:	Numero Group
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2024
Price:	£19.98 / £35.97