UPTOWN DOWN SOUTH ""THE A-BET AND EXCELLO LABELS SOUL SOUND"" NORTHERN SOUL CD
Despite its overwhelming country music association Nashville has a large black population and produced great music sourced from and aimed at this largely unheralded group.\nLocal songwriter Ted Jarrett was one of the driving forces in the 50s and carried on working through the next three decades. On this CD R&B based act Lucille Mathis sings his gritty mover \u2018I\u2019m Not You Regular Woman\u2019. Ted had his own labels but the city\u2019s main black music imprint was Ernie Young\u2019s Excello which had been issuing R&B since the early 50s, many with Ted\u2019s involvement.\nTed studied at the city\u2019s noted black university Fisk, where the younger Bob Holmes gained high distinctions. Bob was a master arranger and though his first successes were with the raw blues of Slim Harpo, he brought a sophisticated orchestrated soul sound to most of his work. Ted worked with Bob on several releases for Excello and the pair would later run Ref-O-Ree together. Bob\u2019s main act;
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