SEARCHING FOR SOUL
Track Previews
- 1. Tommy McGhee “Give & Take”
- 2. Manual B. Halcolm “I Stayed Away Too Long”
- 3. Detroit Sex Machines “Rap It Together”
- 4. Robert Jay “Alcohol Pt. 1”
- 5. Wendell Harrison “Farewell To The Welfare Pt. 1”
- 6. The Black Aces Of Soul And The Eyes Of Ebony “Let’s Get On Down”
- 7. Jake Wade & The Soul Searchers “Searching For Soul Pt. 1”
- 8. Lloyd W. Williams “Be Mine Tonight”
- 9. Robert Lowe “Back To Funk”
- 10. Dee Edwards “I Can Deal With That”
- 11. El Riot “Do It Right"
- 12. Burning Desire “Why She Had To Go”
- digital
Includes fantastically rare soul and funk music from Michigan,
this is the true underground sound from the Motown era.
Features detailed liner notes illustrated with never-been-seen-before images from the era.
Detroit was the epicenter for the soulful revolution the world knows as Motown. However, Detroit and the surrounding cities making up Michigan were also home to an unparalleled underground music scene that supported, propelled and fed off the Motown machine. Included here are absolute rarities from The Black Aces of Soul and the Eyes of Ebony next to now funk classics by The Detroit Sex Machines. Almost all of these records have never been heard on CD, and you’d have to mortgage your house to buy all the originals. Raw breaks and beats from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers sit next to the melancholic charm of vocalist Dee Edwards, inter galactic big band funk from Wendell Harrison drops down next to freaky synth-driven soul of Aged In Harmony.
In total this compilation includes 11 songs and 4 instrumentals.
While some artists brushed shoulders with the greats and others longed for a big break, most of the artists featured here were operating on a D.I.Y. basis. They made their own careers, their own successes and mistakes instead of trying to fit the Motown mold. Amidst these grooves lies their honesty, passion, accidents and triumphs.
“Searching For Soul” is volume one in a series that will be as comprehensive and musically inclusive as is humanly possible, bearing in mind that the truly definitive guide to two decades of locally bred Michigan soul and funk would require the mining of a bottomless pit.
Features detailed liner notes illustrated with never-been-seen-before images from the era.
Detroit was the epicenter for the soulful revolution the world knows as Motown. However, Detroit and the surrounding cities making up Michigan were also home to an unparalleled underground music scene that supported, propelled and fed off the Motown machine. Included here are absolute rarities from The Black Aces of Soul and the Eyes of Ebony next to now funk classics by The Detroit Sex Machines. Almost all of these records have never been heard on CD, and you’d have to mortgage your house to buy all the originals. Raw breaks and beats from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers sit next to the melancholic charm of vocalist Dee Edwards, inter galactic big band funk from Wendell Harrison drops down next to freaky synth-driven soul of Aged In Harmony.
In total this compilation includes 11 songs and 4 instrumentals.
While some artists brushed shoulders with the greats and others longed for a big break, most of the artists featured here were operating on a D.I.Y. basis. They made their own careers, their own successes and mistakes instead of trying to fit the Motown mold. Amidst these grooves lies their honesty, passion, accidents and triumphs.
“Searching For Soul” is volume one in a series that will be as comprehensive and musically inclusive as is humanly possible, bearing in mind that the truly definitive guide to two decades of locally bred Michigan soul and funk would require the mining of a bottomless pit.
