Eccentric Soul: Folk Soul
$27.95
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
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