Kings Go Forth Don't Take My Shadow

[ericblowtorch]

Milwaukee came up with this just the way we came up with Harvey Scales, the Esquires, Junior and the Classics, Cobey Joe Payne, the Chefs, the Essentials, Highball Holiday, International Jet Set, the Neapolitans, De La Buena, Paul Cebar, Adekola, Mel Rhyne, La Chazz, the R&B Cadets, Wild Kingdom, Codebreaker, Kid Millions, Def Harmonic, and the Violent Femmes. How the f**k has your town not come up with anything close?

[heddykevy]

@ericblowtorch don't forget Willy Porter, Jaill, the Bodeans, Fever Marlene, The Trusty Knife, Fresh Cut Collective, etc. Milwaukee has some great music coming out of it, but could stand to be more supportive of their local music scene. I think having bands like Kings Go Forth and Jaill garnering (inter)national acclaim will raise awareness that great music (art) is happening here. It has the potential to be on par with cities like Seattle or Minneapolis.

[superlativesoul]

Brilliant northern hoping to get tickets for jazz cafe love it roll on Thursday

KTF John

[jembone]

Looking forward to see 'em next week in Nijmegen (Netherlands)!!!!!! Great soulfunk!!

[walkandskank]

brilliant stuff - i'm looking forward to their debut London show on thurs 13 jan big time.

[littleandy77]

I'm an old northern head and I heard their album for the first time this week. Best thing I've heard in years. How the f**k has Milwaukee produced this. I wanna go there!

[astronautagogo]

this song is great. You northern soul cats are an uptight lot...

[bboyasist]

Remix it with:

"let the sunshine in" vocals

[sryohei1234]

Big Up Milwaukee ! !

[readi1]

funk yeah Brew City Baby

[checkabreak]

Fyah !!!

[iamprov]

What a great contemporary band.

[drwhatson]

Exactly right. I can't argue with a word of that!

[drwhatson]

At the risk of being assassinated(!), I have to say that this recording has more in keeping with the REAL "Spirit of Blackpool Mecca" than some of Ian Levine's (sometimes) "iffy" tailor-made productions. Perfect dance rhythm.

"Hey Baby, That's The Way To Go"

[PJDooWop]

I agree with you on that whatson. I love the fact that Ian got people back in the studio. His work as a historian is important and I appreciate that. However, his backing tracks are shit. Why find these artists, do all this hard work and get them into a studio only to overlay a sample of the original with a crunchy sounding drum machine and horribly cheesy synthesized instrumentation? He should have kept it natural

[drwhatson]

To be fair to Ian however, he DID at least record those artists for posterity using his own cash, and couldn't licence all of the original tracks for the "Strange World Of Northern Soul" project, hence the re-recorded backing tapes. (Still, I'm hoping the instrumentation might be "improved" at some stage in the future!)

[PJDooWop]

I understand the whole licensing issue for the original tracks. However, I feel that he could have gotten musicians to do the tracks and not what he ended up using. A lot of his northern soul remixes sound like his dance remixes of the early/mid 80s (Pet Shop Boys anyone?). Northern Soul is a far cry from 80s dance music and should have been treated as such. Like I said, his contributions to history are highly important. I just feel that he left out one huge step in his work.

[sweetiebabesxx]

Fantastic!!...xx

[PJDooWop]

Wow.. This is fantastic. This is like Collossus Records' rythym and horn section meeting a Tony Camillo production. Hard to believe this is a new record, but in a good way. This is very, very, very well done.

[allsoul61]

Love It!!...nice share...x

[jelboysvw]

Absolutely, I have to agree with the doc !

[drwhatson]

Blackpool Mecca lives! LOL This would have been a monster back in 1975/76.

[alkh3myst]

It's great that people love this group in Europe. Kings Go Forth is a perfect example of what will never get airplay on "urban" i.e. black oriented radio in the US. That would be an open admission by the record labels and radio program directors that they've made a huge mistake, and done the listening public a disservice by backing rap and hip-hop exclusively. Leela James barely gets on the radio in the States. Sad.

[drwhatson]

This group are "tailor made" for the UK Soul scene who still hanker for the real instrumentation and Soulful vocals prevalent in 60s and 70s recordings (it's not so much a "revivalist" scene, as just knowing what we like!) This has great potential, and Kings Go Forth have already caused quite a stir in some quarters. Hip hop stinks by comparison!

[alkh3myst]

I agree 100%.

[Furey10]

superb track!!!! loving it

[granglepuss]

shitbags discoteque this is some soul searching time

[bobperry617]

FIRE!!

[dreastronaut]

jeah!