About this item

After 6 years and 7 volumes, the Tramp Records crew invites you to join them on yet another enlightening journey into soulful Jazz, Folk and Funk from the 1970s.

This 8th volume contains nineteen Jazz, Soul and Folk nuggets from between the late 1960s and the late 1970s. One of the many highlights is the opening track by Bobby Cole which is most likely one of the finest independently produced vocal jazz recordings ever put on wax. So true. Oscar Brown Jr. and Mark Murphy sends its regards. But that's just the beginning. Praise Poems Vol.8 covers a wide selection of genres, from big band jazz (Helmut Pistor's Big Rock Jazz Band and Germany's own Ladykiller) to psych-pop (Portraits in Sound, Harve and Charee and Allison & Shaffer), from folk-rock (Flash, Garndarf and the incredible Fang Buzbee) to AOR (The Menagerie and Penn Central), completing the set with a handful of melancholic folk beauties, most notably Hans Hass Jr.'s mind-blowing "Welche Farbe hat der Wind".

Very few compilation series' release as many as eight volumes and those that get that far often start to run out of quality music or meander too far from their original artistic direction. That certainly is not the case with the "Praise Poems" series which leaps from strength-to-strength as our team of compilers and researchers continue to unearth lost and often overlooked music from an era long gone. Many of these records were released in small quantities as private pressings or by small regional labels. Obviously, those labels neither had the budget, expertise, nor options to promote their releases in a sweeping way. Therefore the majority of these artists failed to find the wider audience their music so richly deserved.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklist:

1. Bobby Cole - A Perfect Day
2. Helmut Pistor & Big Rock Jazz Band - There's A Promise For The Future
3. Ladykiller - Mercy Mercy Mercy
4. Portraits In Sound - It's Time For Music
5. Sebastian - Good Time City Nights
6. Harve And Charee - Got To Turn Away
7. Allison & Shaffer - Moon Madness
8. Klaas Craats Six - Water Gardens Of The Moon
9. Gemini - If You So Smart
10. Flash - Around This Time
11. Garndarf - Song For A Girl
12. Fang Buzbee & Sutton - Frozen Love
13. Penn Central - Make It Happen
14.The Menagerie - They All Seem To Know
15. Hans Hass - Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind
16. Ron & Sally Price - California Feeling
17. Kris & Dale - Memory Shelf
18. David White - I Want To Have You A Long Time
19. Vision - Girl We Really Done It This Time


CD Tracklist:

01: Bobby Cole - A Perfect Day
02: Helmut Pistor's Big Rock Jazz Band - There's A Promise For The Future
03: Ladykiller - Mercy Mercy Mercy
04: Portraits In Sound - It's Time For Music
05: Harve And Charee - Got To Turn Away
06: Allison & Shaffer - Moon Madness
07: Klaas Craats Six - Water Gardens Of The Moon
08: Gemini - If You're So Smart
09: Flash - Around This Time
10: Garndarf - Song For A Girl
11: Fang Buzbee & Sutton - Frozen Love
12: Penn Central - Make It Happen
13: The Menagerie - They All Seem To Know
14: Hans Hass - Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind
15: Ron & Sally Price - California Feeling
16: Kris & Dale - Memory Shelf
17: David White - I Want To Have You A Long Time
18: Vision - Girl We Really Done It This Time