O's Dubs

Soul Sides Vol. 1
I was already a big fan of Weldon Irvine's music; then I had the opportunity to interview him around 2000, only to be devastated by his suicide two years later. "Morning Sunrise" was a song by Irvine's long-time collaborator Don Blackman and went unreleased for many years until a 1999 anthology (The Sisters) resurrected it; a gorgeous tune with elegiac quality that seems fitting for the late composer. Sample.

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Introduction
1. Charles May and Annette May Thomas: Keep My Baby Warm
2. Clarence Reid: Masterpiece
3. Lee Moses: Time and Place
4. Amanda Ambrose: Sad Songs
5. Erma Franklin: Piece of My Heart
6. Donny Hathaway: Jealous Guy
7. Linda Lyndell: What a Man
8. Jimmy Jones: Live and Let Live
9. Ann Sexton: You're Gonna Miss Me
10. Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Lovin' You
11. Joe Bataan: Ordinary Guy
12. Weldon Irvine: Morning Sunrise
13. William Bell: I Forgot To Be Your Lover
14. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: All Over Again