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JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound ‘Get It Together’ b/w ‘I am Trying to Break Your Heart’ RF10 45 NOW AVAILABLE!

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:47:27 +0000

Get It Together b/w I am Trying to Break Your Heart

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound perform their cover of Wilco’s modern classic I am Trying to Break Your Heart live on KDHX Radio

SHIPPING NOW! ALL ORDERS RECEIVE A FREE RABBIT FACTORY SAMPLER!

After months of touring and playing these songs live throughout the Midwest and East Coast, small clubs to festival stages, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound partnered with the Rabbit Factory to bring you these crowd favorites. The A-side, Get It Together, is a floor-filling funk number while the B-side pays homage to Chicago rock heroes Wilco with a killer cover of I am Trying to Break Your Heart. Each 45 comes with a download code of both songs.

Wiley & the Checkmates appear on NPR!

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:19:16 +0000

Thanks to our friends at the Oxford American, the Checkmates were featured in editor Mark Smirnoff’s selections from the music issue. Aside from our favorite southern soul band the issue is full of great southern artists, including a whole disc dedicated to Arkansas artists, please go check it out!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122376545

B’ham Sound Vol 2 Makes Tim Perlich’s Best Reissues of 2009!

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:34:51 +0000

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We are happy to have been listed amongst some of our favorites records of this year in Tim Perlich’s Best Reissues of 2009 Blog! Check it out!

Wiley & Checkmates in Oxford American Southern Music Issue!

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:48:53 +0000

Mississippi’s own Wiley & the Checkmates appear in the new Oxford American Southern Music issue and the track “Guess You Wouldn’t Know Nothin’ About That” from We Call It Soul is featured on the double disc compilation. Check it out, Allison Feinstock’s piece on the group is excellent!

JC Brooks & Uptown Sound Holiday Revue!

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:17:41 +0000

Get ready for the Uptown Holiday Soul Revue, December 12th @ the Double Door, featuring JC Brooks, Heather Perry, Black Bear Combo, East of Edens Soul Express, plus special guests Renaldo Domino, Marvin Tate, and members of Jai Alai Savant, Baby Teeth, and the Blacks! Who knows, this could become the new ‘Waltz’ series in town???

Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson back in Chicago!

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:00:42 +0000

JC Brooks & Uptown Sound with Renaldo Domino in Philly!

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:57:22 +0000

Wednesday November 11, 2009
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound w/ Twinight Records Renaldo Domino!
Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus
847 North 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA
8 PM – $8

Rabbit Factory Logo T-Shirt

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:05:04 +0000

Stunning-looking, deep red Rabbit Factory logo T-Shirts printed on grey cotton/polyester blend so they’re super comfortable.

Sizes S, M, L and XL

Birmingham Sound: Soul of Neal Hemphill Vol. 2

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:34:55 +0000

1. Strickly Soul (Bobby Dobyne & Bare Facts)
2. Get Up and Get at It (Unknown)
3. Testify (Cortez Greer)
4. Matchbox (Ralph Soul Jackson)
5. Let Me Be Myself (Chuck Mitchell)
6. Im a Tellin You (Wes Lewis)
7. Work Hard (David Sea)
8. Take My Hand (Frederick Knight)
9. Instrumental (SOB)
10. Soulful Sound of Music (Bobby Dobyne & Bare Facts)
11. Da Da Dee Dee Da (Cortez Greer)
12. Everybodys Doin the Worm (Hope Parker)
13. It Slipped Right by You (Frederick Knight)
14. When You Wake Up (Fletcher Flowers)
15. Set Me Free (Sam Frazier)
16. How When or Where (Frederick Knight)
17. Stop By (Chuck Mitchell)
18. Lets Go to the End Together (Frankie)
19. Take Me Back (Sam Frazier)
20. Best of My Years (Wes Lewis)
21. Let Your Sweet Love Surround Me (Ralph Soul Jackson)
22. Knock in for a Second Chance (Lee Wilson)
23. Ive Been Lonely Demo (Frederick Knight)
24. Set Me Free (Sam Frazier)

Birmingham Sound: Soul of Neal Hemphill Vol 1

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:22:50 +0000

1. Specify (Little Lois Barber)
2. Believe in Me (David Sea)
3. Eve If You Got Love (Blue Notes)
4. Here After I’m Hereafter (Roscoe Robinson)
5. Funky Soul (Cold Grits)
6. Groove Me Mamma (Eddie Steele)
7. I Love The Way You Do Your Thing (Pat Peterman)
8. I Got Married Too Soon (Chuck Strong)
9. Set Me Free (Ralph “Soul” Jackson)
10. Let Me Be Myself (Roscoe Robinson)
11. Love Keeps Hanging On (Bill “Butterbean” Flippo)
12. Psychedelic Excursion (Broadneck)
13. Thank You Baby (Little Lois Barber)
14. High Time (Blue Notes)
15. I Thought It Over (Chuck Strong)
16. You’ve Never Really Lived (Frederick Knight)
17. You Gonna Reap It (Pat Peterman)
18. Train To Tampa (Sam Dees)
19. Two Heart Accident (Roscoe Robinson)
20. Let’s Just Get Together (David Sea)
21. Take Me Back (Ralph “Soul” Jackson)
22. California Cool Ride (Broadneck)
23. Self (Eddie Steele)