William Stuckey - Love Of Mine [CD Album]

Athens Of The North

£10.80

Format: CD Album
Catalogue No.: AOTNCD046
Barcode: 5050580749115
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Genre: Soul/R&B (Soul)

01: The First Time
02: Wise Men Say
03: Got Plans
04: Country People
05: Just Around the Corner
06: Hold Me Close
07: If You Want To
08: Love of Mine

This first ever re-release of William Stuckey's extremely rare southern soul LP. When Brian Sears told me William was still with us and living locally I was shocked that nobody had spoken to him up till now. Not only that but he still had the multitrack tapes at his house.

Unfortunately the tapes were in a bad way and needed some serious work. Our good friend Dan at Audio Archiving Services in Holywood went above and beyond to restore the tape in small sections (despite baking it was still oozing gunk onto the tape transport and heads) then joining the audio back together perfectly. I know not many people would have gone to this trouble and I'm grateful as this music had one last chance.

The mix down at AOTN studio is brighter and clearer than the o.g whilst being true to the original mix, William was over the moon with the result when he heard it and we are excited to bring it to Vinyl, CD and Digital

Special thanks to Brian, Dan and Linkwood for the work on this project. Securing special music for the future is what we do and we just caught this one in time.