We can imagine Lew Kirton singling these early 80's squelchy soul tracks to some fine lady - passionate, heart-felt killer vocal. Check his obvious Gloria Gaynor jack of "I Will Survive" on the flip - so so good!
We have been waiting for this full length to drop ever since we were tased by the lead single a month or so ago. There was already no doubting James Alexander...
Leonard Grandsons'The Sands of Zanziibar' is a classy, extremely rare soulful floater from ’77which has remained extremely elusive despite having a sound...
AOTN proudly present a new solo outing from long time friend & contributor to Athens of the North, Other Lands aka Gavin L.Sutherland.
Channelling his...
Arthur Ponder, a life long Macon, Georgia resident, started his singing career in the 60s replacing Otis Redding in Johnny Jenkins & The Pinetoppersafter...
Unreleased soul music from William Stuckey - pure class - backed with an alternate 7" mix of 'Hold Me Close' from his mega-rare 1979 album of the same...
Athens Of The North reissue Judy Pollak's extremely rare, soul / funk / folk masterpiece 'In Togetherness'. Originals of this beauty exchange for big sums...
Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
KILLER NEW ORLEANS FUNK PARTY BOMB!!
One of the rarest of all New...
A big spin for Theo Parrish! Groovy as hell soul number, taken from Samuel Jonathan Johnson killer "My Music" album! Another essential Athens of the North...
Surely one of the TUFFEST New Orleans Funk tunes ever made! The intensity of Marilyn Barbarin’s vocals are only matched by the super-tightness of Eddie...
Produced by Philadelphia's Legendary Sonny Hopson, Santiago is Indeed Neftali Santiago from Mandrill who took a break from the band in 1975 and did a little...
Athens Of The North are on one serious roll! Gorgeous, rarer-than-rare disco 45 reissued! Last sold on Ebay for the mind-boogling amount of $7000 (WTF!)....
Two rocksteady nuggets back to back featuring Roland Alphonso's take on Procul Harum's soft rock "Whiter Shade Of Pale" with the very rare Inventors...
BACK IN PRINT!!!!!
Holy Grail deep disco from Des Moines, Iowa! Solid unforgiving driving funky disco, flipped with a crazy Funkadelic style stoner funk...