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Eccentric Soul, Vol. 1: The Capsoul Label | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Numero
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 404039
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 12 x 0.2
UPC: 656605977911
EAN: 0656605977911
ASIN: B00189V3LM
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | You're All I Need to Make It - Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr, Akiko Tarumoto, | | • | Who Knows - Marion Black | | • | I'm Gonna Keep on Loving You - Kool Blues | | • | Sock It to 'Em Soul Brother - Bill Moss | | • | Too Far Gone - The Four Mints | | • | You Can't Blame Me - Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr, Akiko Tarumoto, | | • | Number One - Bill Moss | | • | Row My Boat - The Four Mints | | • | Without Love - Ronnie Taylor | | • | I Want to Be Ready - Kool Blues | | • | Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer - Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr, Akiko Tarumoto, | | • | Hot Grits!!! - Elijah & The Ebonies, | | • | I Can't Take It - Ronnie Taylor | | • | Can We Try Love Again - Kool Blues | | • | You're My Desire - The Four Mints | | • | World Without You - Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr, Akiko Tarumoto, | | • | Go on Fool - Marion Black | | • | Pure Soul [Extended Play] - Elijah & The Ebonies, | | • | Sock It to 'Em Soul Brother [Extended Play] - Bill Moss |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
How does a record become a hit? As history has shown, for every chart-topper, there are easily 10 equally well-made and compelling songs which never become widely-known. Case in point: Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, documenting the tiny Columbus, Ohio label's output during the 1970s. The selections included here are closer to the gritty sounds of Stax than to high-polished Motown soul, but the musicianship and performances would not sound out of place next to the same era's familiar classics from Memphis and Detroit. The Kool Blues' "I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You" apes Sam & Dave's back-and-forth vocal approach, while Four Tops-style harmonies are the template for the Four Mints "Too Far Gone" and "Row My Boat". This collection is an unexpected surprise for the adventurous soul-lover looking to discover something new from the old days. --Ben Heege
Album Description
Short for 'Capital City Soul,' the Columbus Ohio Capsoul label's history spans only five short years throughout the 1970's. Founded by Bill Moss, a local singer and DJ at WVKO in Columbus, Capsoul released just a dozen 45's and one highly sought after LP resulting in a few regional hits. Numero 001 is a compilation of nineteen tracks spanning the label's all but forgotten history.
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| Customer Reviews:
 What A Flashback! July 15, 2006
Don Thompson (Los Angeles, California United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having been born and raised in Columbus during the 60's and 70's all I can say is that I'm flabbergasted. This music creates a visceral sensation that takes me back to the day when Bill Moss (The man with the red hot sauce) along with motivational speaker Les Brown (The man about town) were the voices of WVKO radio. Now living in Los Angeles after thirty years I thought I would never hear the sounds of "Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr" or "Elijah & the Ebonies" again. I feel like I'm crusin' down old Mt. Vernon Avenue again! Great CD.
GO ON FOOL ! June 19, 2006
J. Hoffman (dover, pa. United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At last, there is a cd with "Go On Fool" by the mysterious Marion Black which so little is known of him. With his beautiful voice, one wonders why he wasn't heard of time and time again. But nevertheless, it's so wonderful to find this song on a cd. Plus, the flip side "Who Knows". I still have the original 45 of it released on the Avco record label. The label, that featured stars like : The Premiers, The Softones, The Stylistics, Congress Alley, and Donnie Elbert.
 Sock it to em Soul Brother! May 24, 2005
Andre M. (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
At first, the listener may be put off by the sound quality and obviously low-budget production.
However, upon repepated listening, this can be very appealing as hardcore, grassroots, down-in-the dirt funky little-known underground soul. Granted, this stuff will never make oldies radio, but the overall rawness and lack of polish compared to the more professional soul recordings then made at Motown and Philly International gives the whole thing an appealing sort of ghetto charm.
This is particularly true with "Sock It To Em Soul Brother," where Capsoul producer Bill Moss himself talks about meeting Martin Luther King and other Black heroes of the day. The lyrics here are quite awkward (producer Bill Moss' talents lied elsewhere than performing), but the performance is infectious and the Soul Sisters' background chanting of the title has a cheesy appeal.
Lots of other good stuff here worthy of mention. Johnson Hawkins Tatum and Durr sadly only made a couple of records, but they were quite powerful! "You Can't Blame Me" opens with one of the most atmospheric basslines in Soul music history and is an underrated classic! Their "A World Without You" takes a while to cook upon your first listen. But the ending is dazzling with Virgil Johnson pleading "It's such a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, world!" with powerful vocal percussion as the tune fades out that's enough to make you wanna throw up your hands and say YEAH!
The Kool Blues' "Can't We Try Love Again" is a minimalistic midtempo funk workout that is a nice soundtrack to a seventies summer afternoon in the 'hood. One could just see bellbottomed couples doing Soul-Train style dances to this one. Nice organ work, too. But funk fans and R&B trivia buffs will REALLY get a kick out of Elijah and the Ebonites' "Hot Grits," an admittedly so-tasteless it's hilarious funk spoof of the infamous true incident where a spurned lover threw hot grits on Al Green in the early 70s. The subject matter aside, it's quite the workout.
To the lovers of little known soul, "eccentric" is right! But give it a chance and you'll enjoy it. Such was the Soul music of this era that even it's low-budget variety still makes for enjoyable listening.
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