Clay Hammond - Streets Will Love You

Clay Hammond ‎– Streets Will Love You
Label: Evejim Records – EJ 1999
1989

A1 Streets Will Love You     3:26    
A2 License To Steal     4:23    
A3 Too Many Irons In The Fire     3:53    
A4 I Know What Love Is     3:55    
B1 They Don't Makeum No More     3:44    
B2 Ask Me For What You Want     3:03    
B3 Part Time Love     4:15    
B4 Monkey     4:20

  "Clayton Hammond Jr born 21 June 1936 in Groesbeck, Texas
Clay Hammond was an original founding member of the Gospel greats "The Mighty Clouds Of Joy" in the late 50s  Clay was the older brother of Walter Hammond, who was a singer with the original Olympics. Initially achieving success as a songwriter, Clay's composition 'Part Time Love' was a number 1 R&B single for ' Little' Johnny Taylor. Hammond later recorded for several labels, including Galaxy and Duo Disc, before settling with Kent in 1967.

His releases included two superb southern soul ballads, 'You Messed Up My Mind' (1966) and 'I'll Make It Up To You' (1968). Clay's subsequent recordings were more irregular, although a successful Japanese tour did produce an album, These Arms Of Mine. In 1981 he joined the Rivingtons, who were still working the oldies circuit on the strength of their novelty hit 'Papa Oom Mow Mow'. Hammond later sang with one of the many different Drifters groups while continuing to record as a solo artist

.His most well-known efforts from that time are the four singles he did for Kent between 1966-69. These mixed Southern soul, gospel, and blues styles, yet also had a somewhat lighter and poppier production aura than much Southern soul, perhaps because they were recorded in Los Angeles. All eight songs from these 45s, as well as eight others that were recorded but not released in the 1960s, appear on the Ace CD Southern , which also includes ten tracks recorded for Kent around the same time by fellow soul vocalist Z.Z. Hill.

"Clay's bittersweet, almost crying vocals bestow a syllable-bending nonchalance with a lyric, always belying an obvious Sam Cooke influence, though no one has ever mastered this style with quite the flair of Hammond, (Johnny Taylor, Bobby Womack and James Phelps arguably excepted!!)." from Southern Soul Brothers cd notes

Buddy Ace - Don't Hurt No More

This guy was another of the miracles who performed at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, CA. (I didn't get to see him, sadly) Eli's was most definitely a Chitlin Circuit bar/ Blues club. It was a hell of a place and I never had less than a stellar time there but it wasn't always easy to convince others to go with me and even if you took a cab there it was not easy to get one back home; Eli's was in a rough neighborhood.

"Buddy Ace (November 11, 1936 – December 26, 1994) was an American blues singer, known as the "Silver Fox of the Blues." His best known tracks were "Root Doctor" and "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man".

Born James Lee Land in Jasper, Texas, United States, he was raised in Baytown, Texas, and began his singing career by singing gospel together with Joe Tex. He joined Bobby "Blue" Bland and Junior Parker, before being signed to Duke/Peacock Records in 1955. His hits include "Nothing In the World Can Hurt Me (Except You)." In the late 1960s, he moved to California performing on live shows.

Buddy Ace died of a heart attack performing in Waco, Texas, in December 1994, aged 58."


Such a tiny bit of biographical info at wiki. I can only find a little bit more:
"Born Jimmy Lee Land in Jasper, TX, on November 11, 1936, bluesman "Buddy Ace" was known as "The Silver Fox of the Blues". His name was changed to "Buddy Ace" by Duke's Don Robey after Frankie Ace's younger brother (St. Clair Alexander) had no success with it! Lee Land was in gospel groups at first (one contained Joe Tex) before going R & B in the early 50s. He played in Bobby Bland and Junior Parker's bands before he finally got a record contract with Duke/Peacock in 1955. In the mid-'60s, Ace scored several R&B hits but never scored a major breakthrough. Relocating to Los Angeles in 1970 and later to Oakland, he spent much of this period touring in and around the Bay Area. Ace continued to perform and record into the '90s with 3 albums released on Leon Haywood's Evejim imprint. On December 26, 1994, Ace passed away in Waco, TX." Soul Blues Music   

This guy's discography is tiny; the Duke singles disc plus four albums, hopefully we will find all of them before we are thru.