The Soul Of Cenco - Fred & Turbines, Shades of Jade, Carbo Brother...and more. Mailing August 3rd

Various – The Soul of Cenco

The first-time tracks from the West Coast label “Cenco Records” have ever been compiled on one album. 13 tracks from the soulful side of this hidden gem of a label which includes many highly collectable and very rare releases.

Cenco is a real enigma of a label. Only really coming to light for Northern Soul fans and collectors around the 80s and 90s with the emergence of the “Stafford Era”. Most notably for the Fred & The Turbines – "Bernadine" and The Turbines - "We Got To Start Over", both of which commanded full dance floors then and still today. The label had an eclectic variety of releases that mostly lent toward the blues genre from its owners’ previous ventures, but it had ties to the world-renown Ike & Tina Turner with their 45 releases and album release. The label was certainly never much of a commercial success even after numerous releases.

Special thanks to Steve Green for his help on the Fred and Turbins & The Turbines
information and to Kenny Gradney (The Turbines). Soul Direction are working on a full
interview with Kenny Gradney who is currently on tour with his band.

Take a listen...............