Cold Diamond & Mink - Devoted To You/Devoted To You (Instrumental) - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

The opening rimshot drums of InchLoveliness Of YouInch by Carlton Jumel Smith and Cold Diamond & Mink have sunday soul written all over them. This easy breezy groover closes Calton's 2022 singles trilogy with a style that echoes classic Hi productions for Al Green from the early 1970's. It's clear that on Timmion Records, Carlton has found a home far away from home.Carlton's soulful demeanor is hard not to like, and if there is any truth to what he's singing here, some even seem to fall in love with it. The recipe is not complicated here, and there is no reason to keep it a secret just a steady groove by a tight rhythm section, horns that lift the beat off the ground and a voice that wraps itself around your heart. And sometimes that's all you need. Album Tracks 1. The Loveliness of You 2. The Loveliness of You (Instrumental)

Continuing the series of single releases from Carlton Jumel Smith's album Inch1634 Lexington Ave.Inch is a beauty of a track in the form of InchAin't That LoveInch. In soul music guitar doesn't always take lead the way it does here played by Seppo Salmi of Timmion house band Cold Diamond & Mink. You might know those tracks like Darondo's InchDidn't IInch or InchOh LoveInch by Iron Knowledge that begin with a guitar line that just freezes the heart.And there's of course one soulful guitar man we can't leave out here. If Carlton ever put his Bobby Womack to the front, it might be the case with this mid-tempo shuffler. Carlton always sings like he's squeezing the last drops of emotion from the human race, but in this number he's really aiming for the cherry. Cold Diamond & Mink supply the right ingredients for the mix with a strong beat and mellowed out horn melodies.If there's one single you want to pick from Carlton's album for those Autumn Sundays looking through the window or walking in the park, make it this one. Album Tracks 1. Ain't That Love 2. Ain't That Love (Instrumental)

Over 50 years since his discovery by ethnomusicologists Dr. Harry Oster and Richard Allen in the prison farm of Angola, Louisiana, what is it that makes the blues as sung and picked by Robert Pete Williams such a singular listening experience, unequaled elsewhere in that musical form? As Peter Guralnick, in his Feel Like Going Home book writes InchIt's difficult to approve the banalities of most blues singers after listening to Robert Pete Williams. More than anyone else he shatters the conventions of the form and refuses to rely upon any of the clich's, either of music or of lyric, which bluesman after bluesman will invoke. Instead he sings blues which reflect a unique and personal vision; he makes each song unmistakably his own.Inch Unfamiliar keys, clich'-free lyricism, spontaneity, an individualistic style in invoking his particular blues, all make Robert Pete Williams an idiosyncratic entry into the canon. It's impossible to listen to blues artists before him and hear strains of his particular style. None have matched it since. Louisiana Blues contains 10 songs recorded in the month of July 1966 out in Berkeley, California for John Fahey's Takoma imprint. Comes with a 8 page booklet. Limited edition of 600 on bottleneck brown vinyl. Album Tracks 1. Somebody Help Poor Me 2. Freight-Train Blues 3. It's Hard to Tell 4. I'm Going Down Slow 5. Motherless Children Have a Hard Time 6. Ugly 7. So Long Boogie 8. This Is a Mean Old World to Me 9. High As I Want to Be 10. It's a Long Old Road