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Review: A sonic snapshot of America's steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is a love letter to Gary, Indiana. Featuring The New Day, El Anthony, Nate Evans, Sky's The Limit, Wilton Crump, Lost Weekend, General Lee, Krash Band, Billy Foster and Audio, I.N.D., and Junei, this double album collects 21 lost songs from the southern-most tip of Lake Michigan. Housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket, with a 16-page booklet crammed with photos, ephemera, and an in-depth essay from Jake Austen, Skyway Soul connects the dots between The Spaniels, Michael Jackson, and Freddie Gibbs. Don't forget to pay the toll.

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Numero Uno Group is one of our favourites - few do original soul as well as this crew and this new compilation on blue swirl vinyl is the latest case in point: Skyway Soul: Gary Indiana is a musical snapshot of the city which was known as America's steel capital. Specifically investigating the time between the moment local heres the Jackson 5 left to go and join Motown and the city's industrial collapse, it's a love letter to a magical time with 21 lost tunes from the likes of he New Day, El Anthony, Nate Evans and Sky’s The Limit amongst more, all of whom hail from the southern-most tip of Lake Michigan. An in-depth essay from Jake Austen adds extra context.

Review: Pyramid deliver a wonderful new compilation of deep gospel from the 1960s and 1970s. Named after the Holy Light Jrs' eponymous slow jam, featuring as the lead track here, all the songs featured come corralled from the vaults of Pyramid's very own DJ Jumbo. Doing well to shine a light on the unbeatably sentimental mood that hung heavy over the Mississippi-born genre that emerged in the postwar period, the likes of 'Beams Of Heaven', 'Lord You Are My Burden Brother' and 'When The Gates Swing Open' all function as faithful, ivory-fingered devotionals and effective paeans for a better world to come.

Review: This is a never-heard-before recording of the legendary tenor sax “Little Giant”, Johnny Griffin, playing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, and backed by members of Ronnie's House Band (Stan Tracey, Malcolm Cecil and Jackie Dougan). A through-composed suite in four parts, we begin with the aroused baritone sax of ‘The Girl Next Door’ and end on the short curtsy known as ’The Theme’. Mastered at Gearbox Records’ in-house studio using an all-analogue signal chain and cut directly from the original tapes, the recordings making up the record were salvaged at the club by Les Tomkins in 1964. The sleeve features photography by the esteemed Val Wilmer and liner notes by Richard Williams.