I'm Just a Prisoner (Vinyl LP) Rock N Roll & 50s

I'm Just a Prisoner (Vinyl LP) Rock N Roll & 50sWith Candi Staton flying into to the UK to play the Love Supreme festival over the weekend of 30th June 2nd July, Ace records reissue her debut LP, out of print on vinyl for decades. Im Just A Prisoner was released in 1970 and remains a definitive slice of Southern soul. Recorded at Rick Halls legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals Im Just A Prisoner pulled together five tracks Id Rather Be An Old Mans Sweetheart (Than A Young Mans Fool), Im Just A

Spirit's 12 minute self-titled track from the 1979 album Put Your Hands Together gets an official re-issue on Rain and Shine

and had previously featured (pre-Mini-) Moog modules on My Brother the Wind Vol

activist and orator

Expanded Edition of the long out of print Mount Wittenberg Orca LP

and multiple offers from record labels

ten songs which slide effortlessly between lovelorn country

Following on from Red Greg

Combining a line-up of mostly unknown musicians from his local community (where he was worked as a butcher)

a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra")

The best is his frenetic version of James Brown’s There Was A Time

Jackie Wilson has a dazzling record of 54 US Hot 100 and 49 R&B singles chart entries

John Kennedy (XFM) and David Rodigan (Kiss) among her many supporters