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Artist: Wiley And The Checkmates
Title: We Call It Soul
Format: CD
Label: THE RABBIT FACTORY
Catalog Number:6
Barcode:606952070025 itemnumber=1000113396
Price: $11.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: SOUL
Release Date: 01/04/2013
Availability: In Stock
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Hailing from Oxford, Mississippi, Wiley & the Checkmates have a lot to live up to. Whether it’s Ole Miss football games, Faulkner, Fat Possum and Larry Brown, the town has a deep-rooted influence on American culture. Although never even a footnote in the golden age of soul music, Wiley & the Checkmates are bridging the gap between the cultural history of Oxford and the aesthetic of American music as told from Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville. He formed the Checkmates in 1960 and was soon leading the band on shows in Memphis bars like Club Paradise and at North Mississippi juke joints. Soul legend Percy Sledge hired the Checkmates as the house band on a revue-style tour that traveled north from Memphis to Chicago, where they played behind Otis Clay and Syl Johnson. In the mid-‘70s, the Checkmates went their own ways, taking jobs and starting families. Herbert married and raised four children while taking over the family business. In 2002 Herbert rebuilt a band around him and after a 25-year break the Checkmates were reborn. Herbert brought together gospel and jazz players as well as musicians with a punk rock upbringing like J.D. Mark (Precious Bryant, LCD Soundsystem) and Matt Patton (Paul ‘Wine’ Jones, Dexateens) to fashion a modern take on the sound of the original Checkmates, similar to the inclusion to Duane Allman or Bobby Womack to key Atlantic soul sessions.

Track Listing
 1. 
I Want Your Love in my Life

 2. 
Up In Heah

 3. 
I Did My Part

 4. 
Guess You Wouldn't Know Nothing' 'Bout That

 5. 
All-The Way Wrong

 6. 
Tryin' To Get Next To You

 7. 
Ode to Billie Joe

 8. 
Hip Hug-her

 9. 
I Don't Want No Funky Chicken

10. 
Have You Been Crying?

11. 
Set Your Mind Free


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