Warm & Tender Soul

Warm & Tender Soul - Joe Haywood - The first-ever full length collection of work from Joe Haywood - a deep soul singer with Carolina roots, but who mostly recorded for Bobby Robinson's family of labels up in Harlem - on rare singles for Fury, Enjoy, and Rampage - all of which are collected here with other great work from Haywood too! Joe's a hell of a singer - very much in the mode of Otis Redding or Percy Sledge - with a hard-burning intensity that never seems to dim at all - and which gets some great southern-styled backings throughout on these excellent tracks from the mid 60s. In fact, the material really feels like the best coming out from Stax or Atlantic at the time - and we're hard-pressed to explain why Joe never hit the big time like some of his contemporaries. But thankfully, he's at least getting some overdue exposure on this full length collection - on titles that include "Hand In Hand", "Warm & Tender Soul", "I Would If I Could", "Debt Of Love", "In Your Heart You Know I Love You", "Strong Feeling", "Say You Will", "Let's Walk Together", and "Talk To Me Baby"