Deep City Label: Eccentric Soul CD

This is the third in a series called "Eccentric Soul" released by the US company Numero and is the best yet and focuses on the Miami label Deep City and its mid 60's cuts.

Numero produce a high quality package with good sound quality, excellent liner notes, vintage photos and label scans including a mouthwatering one of a battered Criteria acetate of the Moovers "Darling I'll Go"which is issued here for the first time.

All 17 tracks are fine Miami music and include a deep soul collectors item Them Two's "Am I A Good Man"; 3 excellent Moovers tracks; 5 Helene Smith tracks who was a wonderful singer and had an album on the label which is well worth hunting down; both sides of Betty Wright's first 45; Paul Kelly's The Upset released on Lloyd and further tracks by Freda Gray, Johnny Killens and Frank Williams.

The label was owned by Willie Clarke and Johnny Pearsall and most of the tracks were written by Clarence Reid who was just embarking on his celebrated writing career. This career will be featured in detail on the blog in the next couple of months based on conversations with him

Numero have just announced that they are releasing a 4th project in the series featuring the Big Mack label from Detroit. Don't forget to chase down the first 2 in the series featuring the Capsoul and Bandit labels.