Tee Fletcher - "Down In The Country" (2:20)
Bill Wright - "You Got A Spell On Me" (2:10)
Eula Cooper - "Shake Daddy Shake" (1:51)
The Knights - "Tipping Strings" (2:03)
L Daniels - "Nitecap" (2:17)
Frankie & Robert - "Sweet Thing" (1:45)
Franciene Thomas - "I'll Be There" (2:01)
Richard Cook - "Somebody Got'a Help Me" (2:09)
Frankie & Robert - "Love (It's Been So Long)" (1:56)
The Knights - "The Hump" (2:07)
Chuck Wilder - "The Clown" (2:37)
Tokay Lewis - "Who Wants Me Now" (2:03)
Nathan Wilkes - "Now That I'm Wise" (3:26)
Langston & French - "Tumbling Down" (2:10)
Eula Cooper - "Heavenly Father" (2:15)
Tokay Lewis - "What Can The Matter Be" (2:21)
Richard Cook - "Love Is So Mean" (2:39)
Bill Wright - "You're The Only Thing I've Got Going For Me" (2:58)
Sonia Ross - "Every Now & Then" (2:39)
Sandy Gaye - "Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone" (2:17)
Bobby Owens & The Diplomats - "Messing Around" (3:44)
Bill Wright - "How Can I Hit The Ball" (3:07)
Tee Fletcher - "All Because Of You" (2:16)
Eula Cooper - "Standing By Love" (2:25)
Four Tracks - "Charade" (3:03)
The Young Divines - "Deep In Your Heart" (2:49)
Eula Cooper - "I Need You More" (3:02)
Chuck Wilder - "Why" (1:55)
Sonia Ross - "Let Me Be Free" (1:49)
Eula Cooper - "Try" (2:13)
Young Divines - "Ain't That Sharp" (3:44)
Franciene Thomas - "Too Beautiful To Be Good" (2:36)
Sonia Ross - "Breaking My Heart" (2:31)
Four Tracks - "You Mean Everything To Me" (4:14)
Review: Tragar and Note, both owned by Jesse Jones, spanned critical regional r&b, soul and funk from 1968-1976. A Numero Group classic, Eccentric Soul compiles 34 key tracks across from Jones' travails over two LPs, a great effort of which we are now reminded on this 15 year anniversary deluxe edition, which brings the record to vinyl for the first time. Featuring rare-as-hens-teeth 45s by Eula Cooper, Tee Fletcher, Richard Cook, Frankie & Robert, Tokay Lewis, Nathan Wilkes, Chuck Wilder, Bill Wright, Sonia Ross, Sandy Gaye, Four Tracks, and Young Divines, the compilation charts a genealogy of parallel soul universes, filled with endless replication: in this distinctly Atlantan approach, we can still hear the Berry Gordy phenotype, the James Brown archetype, the Temptations chromosome, copied and mimicked and mutated into a thousand forms. When a true hit made its big splash, Eccentric Soul was that very last ripple.
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