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Brian Owens & The Deacons of Soul — The Soul of Ferguson
One of the biggest releases ever on Soul Step Records was the landmark record from Brian Owens, “Soul of Cash.” Needing multiple represses to keep up with the demand, it made sense that the latest offering from Soul Step Records comes from the Soulman from St. Louis – Brian Owens.
Soul Step Records proudly announces SSR-054, Brian Owens & The Deacons of Soul with “Soul of Ferguson.” This LP is jam packed with Brian Owens’ unique Throwback St. Louis soul with a Motown touch.
Soul music is something that is hard to define, but it’s instantly recognizable when you hear it. All it takes to hear the soul is to drop the needle on this vinyl. This album has such a charging rhythm section, driving horns, and front and center is Brian Owens’ magnetic voice. As a bonus, Michael McDonald from The Doobie Brothers even lends vocals to this album.
This album resonates LOVE. Songs about our lovers, our children, our family, and our community. There is so much room for love in the world, and Brian Owens and The Deacons of Soul bring that needed feeling on every single track of this LP.
Jenny Tolman — There Goes The Neighborhood
There Goes the Neighborhood, the debut album by Jenny Tolman, casts the clever newcomer – hailed by Sound Opinions as a “storyteller par excellence” – as a member of a high-class, white trash welcoming committee, an observant woman who sees other people on her own fictitious block through a humorous, surface-scraping veneer.
David Quinton — Overlook Road
Preview two tracks from the long awaited David Quinton:Overlook Road LP/CD, coming later this month from Secret Mission Records! This 1980’s powerpop gem has finally been discovered, restored, mastered and released for the first time.
Hallways of Always — Invisible Light
Invisible Light is Hallways of Always‘ second record — pressed on ultra quiet deluxe 180 gram vinyl.
Whiskey Myers
“You can tell when somebody is faking it,” says Cody Cannon, lead singer and guitarist of Whiskey Myers, “and you can tell when it’s real.” This kick-ass band has been steadily building a devoted following with its gritty authenticity, and with their self-titled fifth album, they’re poised to explode.
Each one of the releases from Whiskey Myers has been bigger and bigger — following their break-out third album, 2014’s Early Morning Shakes, their most recent record, Mud, climbed to No. 4 on Billboard’s country charts in 2016. And that was before the group was featured in Kevin Costner’s TV series Yellowstone in 2018 (not just on the soundtrack, but on screen, performing in a bar), which propelled the band’s entire catalogue into the Top 10 of the iTunes country chart.
But playing to larger and wilder crowds — including audiences of more than 100,000 at the Download Festivals in London and Paris — didn’t cause Whiskey Myers to change their approach this time around. “We just bring our songs to the table and make it sound like us,” says Cannon. “We never think about it. We just try to go in and write a good song, whether it’s country or rock and roll or blues.”
Preorder the new album now.
Methmatics
After being expelled from 7 different Russian orphanages, before the age of four, The Methmatics, lived in a feral state in the woods of Anne Arundel county for the first 17 years of their lives.
They were found by a young punk rock couple who made meth in their garage.
As the boys practiced their songs in that same garage , the noxious fumes from the manufacture of the drug , gave their music the unique tonal quality that it has today.
They now create music for their friends, for their own pleasure and because their therapist says is a healthy release to the alternative.
