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After 8 years and 8 volumes, the Tramp Records crew invites you to join them on yet another enlightening journey into soulful Jazz, Folk and AOR from the 1970s and 80s.

This 9th volume contains sixteen (almost) forgotton Soul, Jazz and AOR/yacht rock nuggets from between the mid 1970s and early 1980s. One of the many highlights is the opening track by Ronnie Miler, balearic soul at its very best. But that's just the beginning. Praise Poems Vol.9 covers a wide selection of genres, from AOR (Leaves of Autumn, Mirage and Germany's own People) to pop-soul-rock (Stroke, Tom Miles and Jan Lewis Group), from Terry Callier-type folk-soul (Danish-Swedish singer & guitarist Mikael Neumann, Babe and the previously unreleased "Love Is Not For Real"), to jazz (Dianne Elliott and Phil Palumbo), completing the set with a couple of melancholic soul and psych beauties, most notably AOH's mind-blowing "The Answer Lies In Love".

Very few compilation series' release as many as nine 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

1. Ronnie Miller - I Got The Hots For You
2. Leaves Of Autumn - Slip Back Into The Magic
3. Mirage - Bend A Little
4. People - Misty Mood
5. Stroke - Without Your Love
6. Tom Miles - Old Home Movies
7. Jan Lewis Group - Oh Senor
8. Synod - Future Shock
9. Mikael Neumann - Hey Flicka
10. 5-3-74 - Love Is Not For Real
11. Babe - It's A Long Road
12. Jeff Elliott - Magic Sands
13. Charles Vickers - Mister Jones
14. AOH - The Answer Lies In Love
15. Dianne Elliott - The Ring
16. Phil Palumbo & Pals - It Was A Very Good Year