Eccentric Soul: Folk Soul (LP Vinyl)
Eccentric Soul: Folk Soul / Various Vinyl Records
Product Details
Numero Group has spent two decades excavating the margins of American music, and this entry in their Eccentric Soul series does what the whole catalog does best: locates the records that fell through the cracks of radio and distribution, the ones made by Black artists working outside the commercial mainstream with nothing but conviction and a few hours of studio time. These are songs that never got their moment, finally getting one.
What exactly is Folk Soul? It's not the contemporary roots-rock or country-adjacent ballads you're probably familiar with. Folk Soul sits right before, if not directly along side, the black music diaspora of the mid-to-late 60s through the early 70s. Where Spiritual Soul channels the ethos of pro-black liberation and the broader struggle of it's era, Folk Soul lived in the dissection, classification, and outright denial of the status quo - confronting the complex, rigid power struggles of the time through minimalist, classically trained, and forward-thinking approaches to song craft. This LP Kills Fascist.
Tracklist:
- Blue Eyed Soul - Burn
- Trevor Dandy - Don't Cry Little Tree
- Shira Small - My Life's All Right
- Shirley Drumgole - I'll Never Give You Up
- Otis the 3rd - Time
- Lavice ; Company - Yes I Do
- Willie Wright - Africa
- Tony Brown - Til I Saw You
- Dwain Vinyard - Searching for the Truth
- Just Us - Love Is All We Need
- Alice Swoboda - Potter's Field
- Donald Thomas - Black Night Is Calling Me Hom
UPC: 825764152310
Label: Numero
Release Date: 11.13.26
Format: LP Vinyl