Spring Nyc Soul/ Various - Spring Nyc Soul / VariousNew York label Spring, and it's Event and Posse subsidiaries, were very active from 1967 up to the late 80s. They specialised in the city's black music and tried most variations, including soul, gospel, disco, show tunes, funk, harmony and later electro and rap. We have chosen the most soulful tracks that have so far not appeared on Kent CDs and have found six completed recordings that were previously unreleased. Two of these are ballads, one of which

I'm A King Bee is a dazzling cover of the blues standard

Bill and Denny find themselves experimenting with various drugs and opening their minds with LSD

Noel "Scully" Simms

The Brazilian composer

Those Darlins were a staple of the Nashville indie community from 2006 - 2016

a bold statement from the French rising star of the piano

country-rock are all in his oeuvre

perhaps the youngest A&R man around then and one of the most successful

have rarely been heard live and are world premiere recordings: Achtung

Here Zebra (featuring Randy Jackson

Cox's Army deploy the grungy rocker "I'm Tired" which sounds like if Jimi Hendrix fronted Mudhoney

" "Insomniac" and more