Kend 401 - Eddy Giles - Southern Soul Brother The Murco Recordings 1967-1969 (2014)-Rare Soul(FLAC)

SHREVEPORT,LOUISIANA’S EDDY GILES WAS THE STAR OF DEE MARAIS’ MURCO LABEL,ON WHICH
HE RELEASED A HANDFUL OF SINGLES BETWEEN 1967 AND 1969,SCORING WITH THE REGIONAL HIT
‘LOSIN’ BOY’.“SOUTHERN SOUL BROTHER” GATHERS TOGETHER ALL HIS RECORDINGS FOR THE LABEL,
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER,INCLUDING THE SINGLE THAT WAS LICENSED OUT TO SILVER FOX.IT
HIGHLIGHTS A TALENTED ARTIST WHO WAS ADEPT AT COVERING ALL THE BASES REQUIRED OF
SOUL SINGERS OF THE TIME,FROM BALLADS SUCH AS ‘HAPPY MAN’ AND ‘WHILE I’M AWAY (BABY,
KEEP THE FAITH)’ TO THE UP-TEMPO DANCE STYLE OF ‘EDDY’S GO GO TRAIN’.
ACCESS TO THE MURCO MASTER TAPES ALLOWED KENT TO INCLUDE THREE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
RECORDINGS,A BLUESY ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF HIS FINAL MURCO SINGLE ‘AIN’T GONNA WORRY
NO MORE’,THE WISTFUL ‘IT TAKES MORE’,AND ‘PINS AND NEEDLES’,A COUNTRY SONG GIVEN AN
EXEMPLARY SOUL TREATMENT.‘LOVE WITH A FEELING’ ALSO VERGES ON THE BLUES,WHILE ‘SOUL
FEELING’ IS REVERED BY FANS OF SOUTHERN FUNK.ONE SUPERB ALBUM OF SOUTHERN SOUL!..MANY UNISSUED TRACKS AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME!

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