V.A. - Paul Weller Presents - That Sweet Swee (Vinyl 2LP - 2025 - UK - Original)
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Soul music has always been in Paul Weller’s blood from early Jam covers of Martha & the Vandellas 1963 classic 'Heatwave’. Along with other forms of music, soul found its way into Paul’s record collection, nourishing his ears and informing his own songwriting
We don’t need to recap a questing musical career from the Jam to the Style Council and then blossoming into one of the most productive and revered careers of any UK solo artist. Paul has written anthems, standards and a songbook that have always developed from his own feelings.
Whilst Paul has talked about his love of soul music he has, before now, simply been too busy to sit down and curate a collection of his favourite tracks and get it into the record racks.
Ace Records are honoured and delighted to finally release that Paul Weller curated collection which he has aptly titled, “That Sweet Sweet Music”.
This 2-lp set and CD open the curtains on 26 tracks that are some of Paul’s favourite soul records most of which nestle on vinyl in his own collection. He can still recall paying £70 for his copy of Jon Lucien’s 1971 'Search For The Inner Self’ 7” at a record shop in Leicester in the 90s. Some of these tracks are soul classics like James Carr’s 1966 'Pouring Water On A Drowning Man’ and Brother to Brother’s brilliant take on Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson’s 'In The Bottle’ from 1974. Others are deliciously obscure wonderous gems like the A-side of Blackrock’s sole 1971 single 'Blackrock “Yeah, Yeah”’, 'Life Walked Out’ from the same year by the Mist or Syl Johnson’s 'Black Balloons’ taken from his 1970 album “Is It Because I’m Black?”.
There are plenty of big vocal hitters such as Darrell Banks, Spinners, Joe Simon, O.C. Smith, the Dells and Betty Davis. Whilst the core is vocal soul the music does branch out with Paul selecting a wicked instrumental from the flipside of the Isley Brothers’ 'Twist & Shout’ from 1962 and the funky jazz of the Headhunters 'God Made Me Funky’, the A-side of their first 1975 seven-inch.
Paul has not only written an introduction but the way he has curated the music allows each side of the vinyl and the CD to flow like a river taking the listener on a journey through some of his favourite music.
It’s a Sweet Sweet collection indeed...
Trackliste
A1 God Made Me Funky
A2 Spanish Twist
A3 Breakaway
A4 Top Of The Stairs
A5 Dont Let The Green Grass Fool You
A6 Black Balloons
B1 Soulshake
B2 I Can't Make It Anymore
B3 You Got To Have Money
B4 Pull My String (Turn Me On)
B5 Run For Cover
B6 On Easy Street
B7 It Ain't No Big Thing
C1 Summertime
C2 In The Bottle
C3 Hard Times
C4 Maggie
C5 When
C6 Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
C7 That's Enough
D1 Blackrock Yeah Yeah
D2 Golden Ring
D3 Search For The Inner Self
D4 Life Walked Out
D5 In The Meantime
D6 Beautiful Feeling
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