V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label

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Where everything Numero begins. Three guys in a purple Saturn station wagon drove down to Columbus, Ohio, and came back to Chicago with a lost labelthe rest is history. In the early 70s, Bill Moss Capsoul imprint could barely break wind in the larger music marketplace, and yet today the labels output can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any classic soul of its era. Isolated in central Ohio and lacking the funds to back them, groups like the Four Mints and Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr mightve easily withstood ten rounds against the Temptations, Smokey, or Otis. The scrappy Capsoul writing team of Dean Francis, Jeff Smith, and Norman Whiteside wouldve gone blow-for-hook-filled-blow with any Gamble & Huff or Holland/Dozier/Holland cared to throw at them. From Bill Moss civil rights meditation Sock It To Em Soul Brother to Marion Blacks future hit about the future Who Knows to Kool Blues bounding Im Gonna Keep on Loving You, Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label remains dollar-for-dollar the best soul compilation of its century and the perfect primer for anyone piqued by the Eccentric Soul series.