Label: Light in the Attic
Released 2014
The second installment in the Wheedle's Groove series documenting Seattle's soul and funk scene from 1972 to 1987. Unlike Volume I, Seattle's Soul scene did not stop in 1975. Wheedle's Groove Vol. II, documents the period from 1972 to 1987, when Funk was superseded by Disco and modern Soul. Heading into the '80s, artists in the Emerald City caught wind of the hip-hop and electro scenes that were growing in bigger cities across America, and gave the music their own distinct spin. Separated from the major centers of Soul music, Seattle was a scene that developed out of the gaze of the mainstream music industry, but one that moved just as fast. Seattle's size and location had a great effect on it's sound. Artists on the scene were accustomed to playing small, discreetly segregated club shows and pressing short runs of 45s for local radio stations.
Track Listing:
- Epicentre– Get Off The Phone
- Priceless– Love In Your Life
- Don Brown– Don't Lose Your Love
- Deuce– Your Love Is Fine (Lovin' Fine)
- Push– You Turn Me On (Portland Session Mix)
- Malik Din– Trouble In Mind
- Romel Westwood– I'm Through With You
- Teleclere– Steal Your Love
- Steppen Stones– Darlin Oh Darlin
- Cold, Bold, & Together*– Let's Backtrack
- Seattle Pure Dynamite*– I Wonder Love
- Septimus– Here I Go Again
- Priceless– Look At Me
- Lenny Randle & Ballplayers– Kingdome
- Unfinished Business– Holding On
- Frederick Robinson III– Love One Another
- Bernadette Bascom– I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love
- Robbie Hill's Family Affair– Don't Give Up