Eccentric Soul: The Cuca Label Vinyl LP Opaque Red Colour 2024
Tracklist:
LP 1
1. Restless Love - The Twiliters
2. Glamour Girl - Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
3. I'll Say "yes" - The Devils & The Devilettes
4. It Puzzles Me - Little Artie & The Pharaohs
5. Too Much at Stake - Birdlegs & Pauline
6. The Long Hot Summer - Betty Moorer
7. You Don't Care - The Esquires
8. I Lost My Job (And I've Got to Find Another) - Supremes Four
9. Ten Thousand Years - Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
10. One More Time - Betty Moorer
11. I'm Leaving You - The Devils & The Devilettes
12. I Love You, Patricia - Supremes Four
13. We Three - The Twiliters
LP 2
1. Tell Me - The Devils & The Devilettes
2. Time After Time - Step By Step
3. Independency - Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
4. My Man Lives - Betty Moorer
5. Can't You Stay a Little Longer - The Twiliters
6. Love and Understanding (Feat. J. Watson Vance) - The Devils
7. She's Gone - Step By Step
8. Every Step of the Way - Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
9. Girl of My Dreams - The Twiliters
10. I Never Knew Love - Fantastic Six
11. I'll Take Care of You - Little Artie & The Pharaohs
12. Mist of a Dream - Birdlegs & Pauline
13. Tribute to Jimi Hendrix - Rex Swanigan and The Fabulous Troubadores
Late night '60s R&B caught on tape at Jim Kirchstein's Jack-of-all genres Cuca Studio. Released on minuscule pressings into the Wisconsin Wilderness, these 26 sasquatch-rare tracks uncover the soulful paths between the Chicago, Milwaukee, Rockford, and Rockford scenes. Featuring Harvey Scales, Step By Step, Betty Moorer, Seven Sounds, Twiliters, Birdlegs & Pauline, Esquires, Artie & The Pharaohs, and Fantastic Six, This 2LP tells an alternate history of soul music that could only happen in the Hinterlands on Highway 12.