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    Willie Dale Let Your Light Shine

    Athens Of The North
    • Willie Dale – Let Your Light Shine
    • Willie Dale – Somebody Help Me
    • 1. Let Your Light Shine
    • 2. Somebody Help Me

    Recently discovered funk, soul, psyche obscurity - original copies being impossibly rare (only 5 copies known to be in circulation, apparently, exchanging hands for above $4000). Essential reissue! 

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