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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

Wiley & the Checkmates – We Call It Soul CD

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:07:45 +0000

2008 offering of classic southern soul from Oxford, MS, dance band Wiley & the Checkmates. Includes notes written by the southern crime-noir novelist Ace Atkins. Essential listening.

1. I Want Your Love in my Life
2. Up In Heah
3. I Did My Part
4. Guess You Wouldn’t Know Nothing’ ‘Bout That
5. All-The Way Wrong
6. Tryin’ To Get Next To You
7. Ode to Billie Joe/ Hip Hug-her
8. I Don’t Want No Funky Chicken
9. Have You Been Crying?
10. Set Your Mind Free

Wiley & the Checkmates – Guess you… 45

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:53:51 +0000

The first single from ‘We Call It Soul’ by Wiley and the Checkmates.
B-side is exclusive to this record and is a staple of the band’s live show.

Guess You Wouldn’t Know Nothin’ About That b/w Milk Chicken