In the past I've referred to Charles Brimmer as the Al Green of New Orleans; I'd call Eldridge the David Ruffins of NOLA singers. Same kind of power and passion to my ears.
The collection offered here IS NOT the one that goes with this or any other CD cover for that matter. The CD I started with had 18 tracks, but I have, over time, managed (with a little help from my friends) to find 35 tracks of glorious New Orleans Soul!
As far as I can tell, this represents his entire output. If you listen carefully you can hear the development of New Orleans Soul over this time frame reflected through his material and delivery.
Even though The Meters are backing him through most of the second half of the collection, it is unlikely that they were ever actually in the studio together. The scarceness of information on this guy would lead me to simply paraphrasing the notes of my disc so I'm going to substitute a picture for a write up.
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Another fine piece of excavating KC. Just started to give this a listen but Worried Over You is a stone cold winner, great stuff.
Love Affair and Cheatin Woman turned up in the UK on the Charly comp 'Sehorn's Soul Farm' and the wonderful Now That I've Lost You was on the 'Confessin - Deep Soul From New Orleans' comp. Cheatin Woman also popped up on the Atlantic Blues Series on 'Blues Vocalists'
Those were the only tracks I knew so this is a real treat, thanks.
Just to restate - The last 2 posts have been really great for me - Both have a variety of song settings
unlike many artist compilations and truly represent the outstanding quality of NO music - Thanks - And
now back to my listening post !
Cheers
Fantastic!
Thanks. I love to come across these Soul artists i'd never heard of before. Earlier you posted some Bobby Powell and now this one. Please keep them coming.
Another Thanks KC - Just ordered both albums from Amazon - Cheers
Hi KC, any chance of a repost on this one, please.
re-up? thanx
http://www29.zippyshare.com/v/TGxIu7wH/file.html
Thanks a lot for these last two re-ups
cool - thanx-4-the-re-up !!
Very cool. It's not all that often that I can discover a 'brand-new' artist of this caliber. This is the only place where that happens!
Many thanks for the Eldridge Holmes, a real treat. And thanks too for J&B Purify, so much more to them than I'm Your Puppet!
alas, the link is dead :-(
Yippee, the link is NOT dead. Thank you so much, kind sir. Looking forward to Eldridge on a rainy weekend...
!ggy
New artist to me and a great soul discovery.
Thanks for introducing him to me.
Dear Deep Southern Soul ... wondering if you would kindly consider a 2019 re-up of your Eldridge Holmes compilation.
Thanks in advance, if you can do this - I will stay tuned.
.rog. (A child of the 60s, who learned to play guitar listening to this music)
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