Artist: Various Artists

Title: Eccentric Soul: The Shoestring Label (Various Artists)

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Soul/R & B

UPC: 825764109611

Release Date: 2024

Record Label: Numero

Album Tracks

1. We've Got It Made
2. Let Yourself Go
3. You and Me
4. A Broken Heart Will Mend
5. Disco Fever
6. Dance (Part 1)
7. So Smooth
8. You Keep Holding Back on Love
9. I Need You So
10. You're All the Woman I Need
11. Radio Promo

Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois' answer to a question no one asked. Pressed in minuscule numbers and barely outside the 62002 zip code, the singles by The James Family, Jimmie Green, Pete & Cheez, and Carletta Sue are prime examples of cosmic midwestern disco in search of a break. This heavy weight 10-song LP is housed in a tip-on sleeve, and includes an essay and imagery that complete the picture of this pure expression of small-town soul.