North Carolina Gem

[Soulfulsolutions]

Just the one beauty for today, which for obvious reasons considered putting up for offers but opted for set sale…….

Always happy to send additional images and sound files.

Saints – I’ll let you slide / Love can be – Wigwam 3907 M- £3000

Fantastic double sider out of Greensboro(?), North Carolina and appears to be only one of 2 releases on the tiny Wigwam label, and still not clear with catalogue numbers wildly different. The label credits offer very little insight into those who had a hand in it, so much so, I originally mistook ‘Jimmy Barnes’ on the Sue label with the writer ‘Jimmy Branch’ but ‘Branch’ is unreported anywhere I can find, as is one producer ‘Syd Vann’, the other though, ‘Charles O. Johnson’ is much more visible as the owner of the Goldleaf label, out of Rocky Mount, NC, made familiar to Northern fans by the ‘Chuck Wells – Love knot’ release, so with this in mind perhaps Wigwam is a subsidiary of Goldleaf? I am sure as my notes always do we’ll tease out more knowledge from the well-informed.   

‘Slide’ of course is the sought after and played side, a classy mid-tempo crossover group dancer. The flip ‘Love can be’ though, does it for me, a superb slightly offbeat not quite sweet, not quite lowrider, but tantalisingly good mid-tempo groover that needs more air time please! Original of course, and graded mint minus with just the lightest storage / sleeve lines visible under strong light, but looks fabulous to me, plays superb, labels immaculate. No trades, sorry.

 

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Cheers, Lee