Name: You Gave me Reason to Live - Southern and Deep Soul From Louisiana
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CDKEND501

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Limited edition

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2021-05-28

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029667012421

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Funk / Soul

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Kent

South-West Louisiana is famous for its homegrown music: the Cajun sound and its black cousin Zydeco. However, situated between New Orleans and Houston, the region’s music industry was ideally placed to also record local versions of soul, funk and blues. This compilation comprises high-quality Southern soul which, because of where it was recorded, tends to have been previously overlooked. 

The music here spans the early 60s, with artists such as Sticks Herman performing a local version of embryonic soul, and the early 1970s, when the influence of Memphis soul could be heard in the voices of Johnny Truitt and Moody (Scott). This is the sound of record men Eddie Shuler, Carol Rachou and J.D. Miller getting the best out of local talent and passing musicians and releasing timeless slices of pure musical emotion. 

Shuler’s ANLA label is the main source, although the artist names are often hardly more than markers, with little known about some beyond the records they made. Terrie and Joy La Roy, Soul Shouting Tommy and Big Daddy Green, for example, all released thrilling singles, then disappeared back into obscurity. Others such as Camille “Lil” Bob carved out careers that lasted decades, whilst Bobby Charles moved from his pop hit ‘Later Alligator’ to Bearsville cult status via ‘Big Boys Cry’, a fine piece of emotional mid-60s soul. 

<i>You Gave Me Reason To Live</i> is a celebration of the exceptional music that can occur in the most out of the way places.

 01 Baby Oh Baby (How Far You Are From Me) - Charles Greene 02 If There's A Will There's A Way - Ike Porter &amp; The Fabulations 03 Without Love What Would Life Be - Terrie &amp; Joy La Roy with The Bill Parker Show Band 04 Groove Maker - Dynamic Adam &amp; His Excitements 05 Soul Woman - Camille "Lil" Bob 06 For The Good Times - Johnny Truitt 07 One Man's Happiness - Moody 08 Sea Of Love - Freddie Love 09 Our Love Will Always Be - Lee Bernard 10 Trust - Count Rockin' Sidney with the Dukes 11 Why Did I Let You Go - Chester Randle's Soul Senders 12 You Gave Me Reason To Live - Big Daddy Green 13 Love For Love - Ike Porter &amp; The Fabulations 14 To Be Loved By You - Soul Shouting Tommy 15 Lonely Feeling - Sticks Herman 16 Big Boys Cry - Bobby Charles 17 If You Love Me - Clifton White &amp; His Royal Knights 18 On Bended Knees Begging - Big Daddy Green 19 Why I Shed So Many Tears - Terrie &amp; Joy La Roy with the Bill Parker Show Band 20 She's Gone - Dynamic Adam 21 Don't Drive Me Deeper (Into The Ground) - Lee Bernard 22 

You Gave me Reason to Live - Southern and Deep Soul From Louisiana

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