Señor Soul - Plays Funky Favorites

Year : 1968
Label : Double Shot Records
Genre : Soul, Jazz
Style : Soul Jazz, Funk/Soul, Latin

First album of the pre-incarnation of the "Eric Burdon & WAR" band, lead by Charles Miller, who was actives from 1967 to 1969. Later only Charles Miller joined "WAR", conceived with producer Jerry Goldstein and Eric Burdon, born on the ashes of "The Creators" & "Nightshift" bands (formed with Howard E. Scott and Harold Brown). Señor Soul revisits the Pop & Soul classics from the sixties in the Latin Funk style, including "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", "Gimme A Little Sign", "Sunshine Superman" and "Up Tight". Titles include also two of their original compositions, "Poquito Soul" and "Mucho Funky". It features Charles Miller (sax, fl, org), Edwin Stevenson (vib, p), Willie Briggs (eb), Howard Talley (eg) and James Tillman Crump (ds).

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Señor Soul - It's Your Thing

Year : 1969
Label : Double Shot Records
Genre : Soul, Jazz
Style : Soul Jazz, Funk/Soul, Latin

"It's Your Thing" is the last album of Señor Soul, a Funk/Soul band to the latin flavour, first incarnation of WAR formed by Charles 'Chuck' Miller in 1967. Miller was a multi-instrumentalist influenced by latin music who started as studio musician in particular to recording sessions of The Ray Charles Band. Later, he formed WAR with the Eric Burdon's contribution including Charles Miller's new band, "The Night Shift" featuring Harold Brown, Howard E. Scott & Papa Dee Allen, Lee Oskar joinging them thereafter. Titles include several songs composed by Mo Rodgers, producer for Double Shot Records, Soul&Rock covers songs from The Isley Brothers (It's Your Thing), Lee Dorsey (Working In The Coalmine), The Creedance (Proud Mary), jazz standard (By The Time I Get To Phoenix) and original composition by Charles Miller (Soul Fiesta). It features Charles Miller (sax, fl, org), Edwin Stevenson (vib, p), Willie Briggs (eb), Howard Talley (eg) and James Tillman Crump (ds).

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