Sugar Billy - Super Duper Love(1975)Fast Track - Rare Soul

 Yet again we have another  great unknown performer from ....you guessed it Detroit who was a very close friend of Dave Hamilton,s..a track by Billy was featured yesterday on the blog.  Sugar Billy’s 1974 original recording of “Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin’ on Me)” released as a single Prior to his 1975 album Super Duper Love was made famous when English soul singer Joss Stone covered the song’s part one for her debut album, The Soul Sessions (2003).  Not much is known about Sugar Billy Garner/Willie Garner other than he seems to have hailed from Detroit, where he laid down a couple of funky scorchers for Dave Hamilton on the New Day label in 1971. He recorded an entire albums worth of material for the FastTrack label in 1975, and then promptly disappeared. The album is a classic Soulful Masterpiece IMHO from Sugar Billy,Great all round Soul. The man had his own unique Style which was Raw & Funky. somewhat mellower than the funk of The Fatback Band  or Kool & The Gang, but still with a nicely rough-edged feel overall, one that mixes snapping rhythms with Billy’s slightly raspy vocals, all in a bag that’s somewhat unique, and which is almost a Vocal Cousin of Southern Soul Styles. Arrangements are by Jimmy Roach, who definitely helps the group groove and a young Marcus Belgrave is actually in the group on Trumpet!..my fave track is the taster!

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