21st Century Soul - 2005 (The Best Of)

2005

Continuing the 21st Century Soul series with the sixth edition 2005.

Previous Years

2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Alphabetical playlist by artist against individual who selected them. 

Tracks in bold included in playlist limited to 50 tracks (3 hours 45 mins).

Artist	Title (Album)
Kevin Oxberry	Starpoint Radio
Bethany Devine	Soul (Fruit Of The Spirit LP)
Chandra Currelley	Unconditional Love (Love Songs LP)
Dr. Norman Thomas feat. Lenora	So Good (Scriptures Chapters 1-7 LP)
Jeanette Harris Band feat. Joel Bowers	Find Yourself (Down Route 99 LP)
Kim Waters feat. Maysa	Daydreaming (All For Love LP)
Kloud 9	Special One (Yearning 2 Love LP)
Mariah Carey	Fly Like A Bird (The Emancipation Of Mimi LP)
Michael Avery	Best Friend (Destination Love LP)
Quedon	Love Song (Quedon LP)
Wade O. Brown	So Glad (All Night, All Love LP)
Will Downing	Put Me On (Soul Symphony LP)
Paul Goldsmith	Starpoint Radio
Anthony Hamilton	Change Your World (Ain't Nobody Worryin' LP)
Divine Brown	Another Affair (Divine Brown LP)
Earth, Wind & Fire	Pure Gold ( Illumination LP)
Eric Roberson	The Moon (The Appetizer LP)
Incognito	When Tomorrow Brings You Down (Eleven LP)
Kem	Find Your Way (Back In My Life) ( Album II LP)
Kirk Franklin feat. Stevie Wonder	Why (Hero LP)
Mary J. Blige	Cant Get Enough (The Breakthrough LP)
Pee Wee Callins	I Choose Love (Street Soul LP)
Ron E Beck	Let Me Show You (Soul Cry LP)
Steve Aggasild	Soul Music Radio / SOTAR
Anthony Hamilton feat. Sunshine Anderson	Last Night (Soulife LP)
Audio Caviar feat. Howard Hewett & The EWF Horns	Love Comes In Time (Transoceanic LP)
Brian Culbertson feat. Will Downing	It's On Tonight (It's On Tonight LP)
Brian McKnight	Grown Man Business (Gemini LP)
Chanel	My Life ( LP)
Chris Botti feat. Jill Scott	Good Morning Heartache (To Love Again, The Duets LP)
Eric Benet	I Wanna Be Loved (Hurricane LP)
Faith Evans	I Don't Need It (The First Lady LP)
Floetry	Let Me In (Flo'Ology LP)
Jamiroquai	Talullah (Dynamite LP)
Kem	Heaven (Album II LP)
Kenny Thomas	Him ( LP)
Kirk Franklin	Looking for You (Hero LP)
Lee Ritenour feat Grady Harrell & Kenya Hathaway	Is It You (Overtime LP)
Leela James	Music (A Change Is Gonna Come LP)
Lindsey Webster	You Change (You Change)
Mariah Carey	Fly Like A Bird (The Emancipation Of Mimi LP)
Mary J Blige	Be Without You (The Breakthrough LP)
Nicci Gilbert feat. Dave Hollister	She'll Never (Grown Folks Music LP)
Nivea	My Fault (Ghetto Apology LP)
Para Beats feat. Carmen Reece	U Got Me (Radio Edit) ( LP)
Prominent	Step Into My World (42 Grams LP)
Secret Stealth	Dream Of You (Ssshhh! LP)
Syleena Johnson	More (feat. Anthony Hamilton) / Another Relationship / Slowly (Chapter 3 The Flesh LP)
Usher	It Is What It Is (Rhythm City Volume I - Caught Up LP)
Vincent Montana Jr & The Philly Sound Orchestra feat. William 'Smoke' Howard	That's What Love Does (The Spirit Of Philadelphia 2 LP)
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Anthony Hamilton	Change Your World / Never Love Again (Ain't Nobody Worryin' LP)
Avila Brothers	Let It Go (Feat. Shelea) / Love's Mystery / Smile / I Want You (The Mood: Soundsational LP)
Brown's Bag	Heaven / No More Love / Fall In Love (Labor Of Love LP)
Divine Brown	Warrior (Divine Brown LP)
Faith Evans	I Don't Need It (The First Lady LP)
Floyd Taylor	Unfinished Business / Baby, I've Changed (No Doubt LP)
Jazmín Sky	Sorry Can't Patch It Up / Wake Up Smell the Coffee (Jazmín Sky LP)
Joe Bataan	Cycles Of You (Call My Name LP)
John Legend	Live It Up (Get Lifted LP)
Keyshia Cole feat. Eve	Never (The Way It Is LP)
Larry Braggs	Help (mistitled Halftime) / Willing to Learn (Places LP)
Lee Cort feat. Wendi Williams	Never Have To Worry / Better Way (Love Letters LP)
Leela James	When You Love Somebody / Music (A Change Is Gonna Come (U.S. Release) LP)
Jamie Foxx feat. Mary J. Blige	Love Changes (Unpredictable LP)
Kirk Franklin	Keep Your Head / Looking For You / Why (Hero LP)
Lew Kirton	If it a'int cool (Forever LP)
LL COOL J; Mary J. Blige	Favorite Flavor (Todd Smith LP)
Mariah Carey	Circles / Fly Like A Bird / I Wish I Knew + others (The Emancipation Of Mimi LP)
Mary J. Blige	Father In You / I Found My Everything (feat. Raphael Saadiq)  (The Breakthrough LP)
Mica Paris	Walk Away from Love (Soul Classics LP)
Raheem DeVaughn	Until (The Love Experience LP)
Rhian Ayanna	Words (Rhian Ayanna LP)
Sounds Of Blackness	Try (Unity LP)
Stevie Wonder	My Love Is On Fire (A Time to Love LP)
Syleena Johnson	Special Occasion / More / Time / Still Open (Chapter 3: The Flesh LP)
Toni Braxton	What's Good (Libra LP)
Tweet	My Man (It's Me Again LP)

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Imperial Wonders [2022] - Lord What is Happening To This World? / I'll Never Go Looking For Love [Cordial Recordings #CORD7034]

Imperial Wonders are a quintet from Cleveland, OH, formed in the 60s consisting of Lester 'Jelly' McKenzie, Avaughn Wells, Leo Green, ex-Rotation Al Boyd and Walter Channey. They  released their first single "Just A Dream" 1969 and followed it in 1971 with "Trying To Get To You". They only released six singles in total between 1969-75, "That's Alright", "You Live Only Once", "Love Coming Down" and finally "Mean Ol' Miss Treater".

They are still performing today and have self-released several albums over the years which is where these two tracks released on 7" vinyl by Cordial Recordings come from.

It's the first time on vinyl for "Lord What Is Happening to the World?" and "I'll Never Go Looking for Love" which were  previously only being available on "Ice Cold Energy" CD album in 2005. It was a compilation of two recording sessions in Hollywood, CA, the first in 1980 at The Total Experience Recording Studio and the second in 1987 at Fast Forward Recording Studio.

The label is an imitation of the Solid Foundation label on which they hade a huge Northern Soul tune  "You Only Life Once" (also recorded by Rock 'N Co in 1976, their only recording which I was fortunate to obtain via one of those now incredible bargain Soul Bowl soul packs) which has a superb ballad flip "Turned Around Over You". Both songs were written by two of their fellow Cleveland natives Walter Williams and Eddie Levert of The O'Jays along with Bobby Dukes and were produced by all three O'Jays (Walter Williams, Eddie Levert and Bobby Massey).

Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Sweet Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital / 7" Vinyl
Label:	Cordial Recordings
Cat No:	CORD7034
Date:	06/11/2022
Key/BPM:	10B/92 / 9B/73
Price:	£2 / £9.99 (£14.99 Pic Sleeve)

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VA [2005] - The Big Bad Bay Area Vol. 1 [Latin Soul Recordings] (Full Album)

The great thing about researching music is that once I've found and played a track, either on Spotify or YouTube, another pops up unsolicited whilst I'm writing that pricks my ears up. One such tune was The Diabolics "I Bet you Never Knew" which led me to this superb 2005 compilation "The Big Bad Bay Area".

The clue is in the label name, Latin Soul Recordings, and the title which almost guarantees that the track list is going to be sweet soul harmony tunes compiled for the lowriders, however there are few tracks towards the end of the compilation which have had spins on Northern Soul dancefloors and the surprise was seeing Rodger Collins, an out and out R&B stomper (that Wilson Pickett later covered and had quite big hit with #7 R&B #15 Hot 100).  It's almost like they got to track 18, which are all sweet soul numbers, and ran out of ideas and filled it with some random tunes.

There's some familiar tunes on it but also a few new ones to these ears. There are one or two errors such as The Emulations mistitled track "Story Of Our Love", which at first I thought may be a cover on The Carstairs flip side to "Really Hurts Me Girl", but should read "Story Of My Life".

There are far too many great tunes to start to list them so I'll let you choose your own but if you want to dive straight into the sweet spot then I'd recommend tracks 14 to 18.

This is a bargain at £7.99 for 24 tracks, especially as you will probably never find the originals on vinyl anytime soon without remortgaging your home!

Annoyingly, neither Spotify nor Amazon link are showing artists, so for a full track listing got to Discogs. P.S. Whilst finding link I noticed that there is a Volume 2, which is also on Spotify,  so will also post at some point!

The Discogs track listing differs from the digital track listing as there are three radio adverts interspersed not included on digital release and three additional tracks have been tagged onto the end (i.e. tracks 22-24), so here's the correct track list for the digital issue.

01 - Jesse James - I Need You Baby

02 - The Fabulous Ballads - God Bless Our Love

03 - The Emulations - These Are The Things

04 - Pacesetters - Don't Love Hurt

05 - California Malibus - I Stand Alone

06 - San Francisco T.K.O.'s - Ooh Baby Baby

07 - Shirley Combs - Why Should We Stop Now

08 - The Page Three - Wait! One Minute Baby

09 - Joe Washington - Look Me In The Eyes

10 - Papa And The Utopians - Cry For Joy

11 - The Master Plan - Only You (Can Touch This Heart Of Mine)

12 - The Fillmotions - Young Girl

13 - The Natural Four - Twelve Mouths Of The Year

14 - Soft Touch - Look Up, Look Down

15 - The Master Plan) - Hey Girl

16 - Diabolics - I Bet You Never Knew

17 - The Ballads - Baby, I'm For Real

18 - Sisters Of The Ghetto - What Made You Change Your Mind

19 - Fuller Bros. - Stranger At My Door

20 - The Natural Four - I Thought You Were Mine

21 - Rodger Collins - She's Looking Good

22 - The Emulations - Move A Little Slower (Good Timing Woman)

23 - Natural Four - Hanging On To A Lie

24 - Rodger Collins - Foxy Girls In Oakland

Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.

Details

Rating:	8.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Sweet Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Latin Soul Recordings
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/06/2005
Price:	£7.99

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Mariah Carey [2005] - Fly Like A Bird [Island / Def Jam #B0005784-02]

In case you haven't yet listened to this weeks SoulAndJazzFlavas show from Steve Aggasild (who played this as one of his three slow jam selections) then you are in for a treat. I know there will be those who will see the artist name and simply skip on, but they will have missed out on this, perhaps, little known gem.

The song, "Fly Like A Bird", was released on Mariah Carey's 2005 album "The Emancipation of Mimi" and wasn't released as a single (except for some promo CDS' after the album was released in early 2006) and hence it didn't fare too well on the charts, making this probably not very well know except to die hard Mariah fans who probably wouldn't have appreciated this particular gospel flavoured song by her.

The song was written by Sounds Of Blackness member James 'Big Jim' Wright who was also a member of Jimmy Jam Harris and Terry Lewis' Flyte Time Productions.

Now get yourself over to Steve's latest SoulAndJazzFlavas podcast to see what else you are missing out on!

Details

Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Gospel Soul
Format:	Album Track
Media:	CD
Label:	Island / Def Jam
Cat No:	B0005784-02
Date:	2005
Key/BPM:	12A/80
Price:	£1

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Ray Charles with Angie Stone [2005] - All I Want To Do [Atlantic #R2 73185]

This track is from a posthumous album "Ray Charles & Friends" released the year after his death in 2005. The, CD only, album features guest artists on each track, some original, others covers, Featured artists include Gladys Knight, Mary J. Blige, Diana Ross, George Michael, Leela James, Patti Labelle Alicia Keys, John Legend amongst them.

The featured track is a Narada Micheal Walden written and produced track "All I Wanna Do" with Angie Stone.

Details

Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Classic Soul
Format:	Album Track
Media:	CD
Label:	Atlantic/Rhino
Cat No:	R2 73185
Date:	2005
Key/BPM:	N/A
Value:	£5-£10 (approx.)

Beyonce equals Quincy Jones with 28 Grammy Awards

By a twist of fate after only just posting a reworking of Quincy Jones 'Stuff Like That' by Danny Krivits, we wake up this morning with the announcement that Beyonce receives her 28th Grammy award (equalling the record of Quincy Jones) for Best R&B Performance for 'Black Parade' which does absolutely nothing for me, she also won one for Best Music Video for 'Brown Skin Girl' Beyoncé feat. Blue Ivy and Wizkid but that and the whole cronyism of the 'lovies' awards ceremonies is another story.  

How winning Album Of The Year for the third time could be put Taylor Swift in the same league as Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon (the only other artists to have won this accolade) is anyone's guess!

Whilst Beyonce's popularity is undoubtable, what on earth is she doing on this blog you may well ask?  Well the girl can 'sang' when she is given 'decent' material rather than the poppy R&B/hip-hop stuff that has made her an international star. It seems that everything she touches turns to gold .. or does it?  I've selected some tracks she released as singles that never charted, and to me at least, they represent some of her best material!

2003 - Summertime Feat. P. Diddy

The first being 'Summertime' Feat. P. Diddy from 'The Fighting Temptations' soundtrack in 2003. It's not the Gershwin classic, it's an original song.

2004 - The Closer I Get To You with Luther Vandross

The second is a duet with Luther Vandross onh a cover of Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway's The Closer I Get To You'. It was released on her debut album 'Dangerously In Love' in 2004 and as a single, and was also released as a longer version (6:25) on Luther's 'Dance With My Father' album. It didn't enter the Hot 100 despite winning a Grammy for Best R&B Performance By A Duo in 2004.

Long Version on 'Dance With My Father'

2005 - Wishing On A Star

The third track is her version of the Rose Royce classic 'Wishing On A Star' released as a single and featured in the movie 'Roll Bounce' in 2005. Again, this is another rare occasion that she didn't enter the Hot 100.

2008 - At Last

The final track is Etta James' 'At Last' from the movie Cadillac Records which only reached #67 on Hot 100.

Meli'sa Morgan Feat. Freddie Jackson [2005] - Back Together Again [Orpheus #80246 90949 2 3]

A UK soul weekender anthem in the 80s by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway from 1979, this is Meli'sa Morgan & Freddie Jackson's version from 2005 from her 'I Remember' album.

It is claimed that Morgan started her career with B.B.P. (Business Before Pleasure) in 1978 who released just one single '(I'm In) The Prime Of Love' on Stang. If this is the case (and it does sound like her) then she would have only been 14 at the time.  The track was reissued by Outta Site in UK in 2014 with the title stating Featuring Meli'sa Morgan. Ila Vann was also connected with the group but I don't know if they were both in the group at the same time. 

Her next group was Shades Of Love, a New York female group which included Lisa Fischer (backing singer for Luther Vandross). They released a handful of singles and had a dance hit (#52 R&B) with 'Body To Body (Keep in Touch)' in 1982.

She then joined trio High Fashion which included Eric McClinton (Eric & The Vikings) and Alyson Williams.  They released 2 albums and about half a dozen singles with little succes except for one R&B entry at #32 with 'Feeling Lucky Lately'.

Morgan left High Fashion in 1983 and released her debut single in 1985 and had a #1 US R&B hit with 'Do Me Baby' which was a cover of a 1982 Prince single which didn't chart. She continued to have 14 R&B entries (5 of them top 10) but only 'Do Me Baby' crossed over to Hot 100 (#46).  

In the UK she had 3 entries in the pop chart with 'If You Can Do It, I Can Too' (1986 #41), 'Fool's Paradise' (1987 #86) and the title track of her 1988 album 'Good Love' 1988 #59) 

My favourite tracks from her are 'Fool's Paradise' (although very Chaka Khanish and similar to the Rufus song, it's not the same song as that was written by Gavin Christopher) and her duet with Kashif 'Love Changes', written by Skip Scarborough and originally recorded by Mother's Finest in 1978 with Joyce Kennedy on lead vocals.

A couple of other tracks of interest on the album are 'I'm Your Sistah' and 'Do You, Do You Want It?'.

Janita [2001/05] - Firefly / Let Me Love You / I Can't Get Enough Of You

Janita (Maria Ervi nee Raukko) is from Helsinki (Finland) and released her first album aged 14 in 1993 before moving to New York when she was 17. This album was her fifth and she was still only 23 and she has subsequently released another 4 up to 2015.  

Firefly

From the 2001 album 'I'll Be Fine' and released as a single in 2002. The album is quite good all through with smooth jazz undertones.

Listen to Full Album here

Let Me Love You

From 'Seasons Of Life' 2005

I Can't Get Enough Of You

Also from 'Seasons Of Life' 2005

Prominent [2005] - Step Into My World [Royalty (SE) #ROYCD9]

A superb modern / neo soul tune from 2005 by Swedish group Prominent from their 3rd album '42 Grams'. Boy ... is this soulful!

I'll take this opportunity to present a few other tracks from the album, with a 'health warning' that a couple of the tracks contain some 'rapping', but to me there's rapping and then there's rapping ... if you know what I mean! i.e. rhythmical rap v ranting rap which is just an unwanted  'noise' to me!

This was their last album. I don't know what happened to them as on the strength of this album, with at least 4 or 5 good tracks featured here, I would have thought it was good enough for further releases. I can find no further releases from them or any of the members of the group, although the lead singer Petricks Castelo did work on a 2008 Swedish movie: Leslie - A Star Waiting To Shine.

It would appear that they broke up, or had a sabbatical, for a few years and then made a comeback with a new single 'The Lights' in 2013, which I'm afraid is not to my taste as it's typical R&B/Hip-hop fodder.

Lucky Day

From the same album this one samples snippets of Shalamar's 'A Night To Remember'.

Let's Talk It Over

Never Loved No One

Hold On To Your World

Leela James - Discography

After listening to Leela James' latest album 'Did It For Love' released in 2017 it prompted me to visit her recording history. She has to date since 2005, released 6 albums, the biggest seller was 'My Soul' reaching #37 in US charts. All her others were outside the top 50 with one not even charting (Loving You More... In The Spirit Of Etta James) All made top 50 R&B with My Soul reaching #7.  The 6 albums have spawned 20 single releases which have all failed to make a dent on even the US RB charts, except 'Tell Me You Love Me' which reached the heady heights of #72! However, 9 have entered the US Adult R&B charts, with 'Don't Want You Back' from her latest album reaching #1.

This surprised me as I thought that she was a 'more established' artist.  Her latest album, I feel, is her best to date.

I have posted all her material chronologically embedding links to all her single releases from each album and added any other tracks that are 'worthy'.  I've provided YouTube links to the remaining tracks at the bottom of each album.

2005 - A Change Is Gonna Come [Warner Bros. 48027-2]

Debut album from 2005 with 19 tracks, 5 of which were released as singles.

2005 - Music

Her first single taken from her first album

2005 - Don't Speak

The second single from her debut album.

2005 - Good Time

The third single from her debut album  - a driving neo/modern soul dancer.

2005 - My Joy

The fourth single from her debut album - a deep and bluesy number.

2005 - When You Love Somebody

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.85

The fifth and final single from her debut album - another deep soul cut - to me she sounds like Joss Stone on this track.

2005 - Mistreating You

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.7

Album only - deep soul

2005 - It's Alright

Album track only - deep soul stepper

2005 - A Change Is Gonna Come

'Surprisingly' an album track only - cover of Sam Cooke's classic.

Remaining tracks:

Intro

Ghetto

Slappy (Interlude)

Soul Food

Rain

Married (Interlude)

Bummy (Interlude)

Didn't I

Prayer

I Know I've Been Changed (Interlude)

Long Time Coming

2009 - Let's Do It Again [Shanachie 5575]

Her second album released 4 years after her debut on Shanachie, which is an album of 11 cover versions.  Only 2 tracks were released as singles.

2008 - It's A Man's Man's World

The first single from Let's Do It Again was a cover of James Brown's 1966 classic. She again sounds very like Joss Stone to me on this track.

2008 - Baby I'm Scared Of You

Second single from Let's Do It Again was a cover of Womack & Womack.

2009 - You Know How To Love Me

Album track only - A reasonable cover of Phyllis Hyman's 1979 classic, but hard act to follow to beat the original.  Sounds a bit fast and sparse i.e. lacking the lush Philly orchestral backing that Hyman's original had.  For a better cover version try Regina Belle's from her latest album The Day Life Begins from 2016 on Shanachie (which prompts me to put some of her material up in future) or even Lisa Stansfield's from the eponymous album from 1997

2009 - Clean Up Woman

Album track only - A competent and faithful reproduction of Betty Wright's classic. Album track only.

2009 - Miss You

Album track only - A cover of the Rolling Stones. Album track only.

Remaining tracks:

I Want To Know What Love Is

A cover of Foreigner's hit.

Nobody Knows You When Your'e Down And Out

Cover of Bobby Womack's song which is given a bit of a rock treatment - not fond of this personally.

I Try

Nice cover of Angela Bofill's 1979 Angel Of The Night album track.

I'd Rather Be With You

Cover of Bootsy's Rubber Band 1976 45.

Simply Beautiful

Acoustic cover of Al Green classic.

Let's Do It Again

Cover of the Curtis Mayfield song made a hit by Staple Singers.

2010 - My Soul [Stax 32641-02]

Her third album, and another change of label, to the legendary Stax produced 11 tracks of which 3 were released as singles.

2010 - Tell Me You Love Me

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.6

Neo/modern soul stepper and first single from My Soul.

2010 - So Cold

Second single released from My Soul.  Contemporary neo soul / R&B with limited appeal.

2010 - Mr. Incredible Ms. Unforgettable

Third single from My Soul

2010 - Let It Roll

Album only track with a throwback appeal.

Remaining tracks:

I Ain't New To This

The Fact Is

I Want It All

Party All Night

Supa Luva

If It's Wrong

It's Over

2012 - Loving You More... In The Spirit Of Etta James [Shanachie SH 5802]

Her fourth album and back to Shanachie for this one containing several covers of Etta James songs. Of the 11 tracks only 2 were released as singles.

2012 - Something's Got A Hold On Me

Cover of Etta James 1962 45 on Argo was 1st single from album.

2012 - I'm Loving You More Everyday

I think this is a song from the Etta James vault that was unreleased until put on a Chess/Charly compilation Tell Mama in the 80s.  If anyone knows more please leave a comment. It was the 2nd track release as a single from album.

2012 - Damn Your Eyes

Album track only. Another Etta James cover from her Seven Year Itch album from 1988.

2012 - I'd Rather Go Blind

Deep soul album track only cover of Etta James classic.

2012 - At Last

Deep soul album track only cover of Etta James classic.

Remaining trackS:

Soul Will Never Die

It Hurts Me Too Much

I Want To Ta-Ta You Baby

Nobody Loves You Like Me

Old School Kind Of Love

Sunday Kind Of Love

2014 - Fall For You [J&T]

The fifth album on yet another label, J&T, which I think 'may' be her own label as only this album and her last are on the label. The album contains 10 tracks of which 3 were released as singles.

2013 - Say That Feat. Anthony Hamilton

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.7

Neo/modern soul dancer with a hint of Philly. 1st single from album)

2014 - Fall For You

MORish ballad. (2nd single from album)

2015 - Set Me Free

Neo soul stepper (3rd single from album)

2015 - Give It

Neo soul groover - album only

2015 - Do Me Right

Deep neo soul groover - album only

2015 - Everything

Deep neo soul - album only

Remaining tracks:

Who's Gonna Love You More

So Good

Stay With Me

Save Me

2017 - Did It For Love [J&T 538271952]

Her latest album which I highly recommend. Five tracks 9of 11) already released as singles and several (better tracks in my view) which should have been, that I've embedded and the remaining tracks are linked to.

2016 - Don't Want You Back

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.75

Neo soul ballad/stepper (1st single from album)

2017 - Hard For Me

Neo deep soul ballad. (2nd single from alum)

2017 - All Over Again

MORish Ballad (3rd single from album)

2017 - I Remember

Deep neo soul ballad/stepper (4th single from album)

2017 - Don't Mean A Thang

Neo soul stepper (5th single from album)

2017 - Good To Love You Feat. Dave Hollister

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.8

Neo soul dancer - album track only

2017 - There 4 U

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.75

Neo/modern  soul dancer - album track only.

Great driving, dance track not released as a single.  This is perfect for UK dance floors.

2017 - This Day Is For You

SoulStrutter's Rating: 8.65

Neo soul stepper - album track only.

The remaining album tracks:

Take Me

Our Love

Did It For Love

Ray Charles & Leela James [2005] - Compared To What [Rhino /ATlantic]

A bonus track for the Northern Soulers - here's Ray Charles & Leela James - Compared To What a monster on the scene by Mr. Flood's Party.  This is a slower more jazzy/bluesy  version.  It's from Ray Charles Genius & Friends album from 2005 on Rhino/Atlantic.

Robert Randolph Feat. Leela James [2006] - Stronger [Warner Bros. 44393-2]

I've included this track for 'completeness'.  I find it rather nondescript.