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Smoking soul from Nicole Willis – one of our favorite funky females of the past decade or two! Nicole's been making great records for awhile, but she really knocks it out of the part with this killer set – grooving hard with the Soul Investigators, in a raw raw groove that really gives the whole Daptone/Sharon Jones scene a run for their money! And if anything, the production and instrumentation on this one is even rawer than you might expect – in a great space that's somewhere between the funky 45 underground of the late 60s, and the best southern soul of the same time. Didier produced, and gives the record a few sweet trippy touches in just the right places – almost bringing in a Darondo aesthetic at a few points – and titles include "Delete My Number", "Light Years Ahead", "On The East Side", "Break Free", "Time To Get Business Straight", "It's All Because Of You", "You Got Me Moonwalkin", and "Now I Can Fly".

Brilliant Detroit soul from OC Tolbert – one of the excellent singers who worked under the guidance of producer Dave Hamilton! Dave's work on the Motor City scene has been beautifully documented on a series of collections by Ace – but this is the first full length record to focus on OC's music, and most of these cuts have not been issued on vinyl – even back in the day! As with the best of Hamilton's productions, there's a totally top-shelf quality throughout – funk one minute, soaring Northern Soul grooves the next – all made even better by Tolbert's wonderful vocal approach – raspy, gritty, and filled with a sense of humanity that really grabs us! The package is done on super-heavy vinyl – and feels like you've unearthed a rare piece of wax from the 60s. Plenty of rare soul pleasure – on cuts that include "Fix It", "See What He Can Do", "All I Want Is You", "I'm Shooting High", "You Got Me Turned Around", "The Grown Folks Thing", "Message To Mankind", and "Everybody Wants To Do Their Own Thing".