Donna Williams - Road To Reason

We proudly premiered this totally brand new song, from "Soul Steppers", released in late February 2009, here on YouTube. Soul Steppers is an album of "Modern-Room" style Northern Soul and Classic retro soul, owing more homage to Gamble and Huff and the sound of Philadelphia and the mid 1970s rhythms, than to the usual Sixties style. Midtempo and Uptempo soulful sizzlers to warm the embers of your heart, and take your feet totally out of control. Just as the legendary Blackpool Mecca building gets pulled down, the "Soul Steppers" album shows that they can pull down the building but they can never take away our music. And in this recession, in times of darkness and uncertainty, as the opening track gloriously proclaims - "I know there's better times ahead for us". Onward to a brighter day. Music can lift us and make us forget what the world has to throw at us, and this album is designed to do just that. The album has songs by Rosetta Hightower, Noel McKoy, Odette Adams, Tahira Jumah, Jay Harvey, Pearly Gates, The Flirtations, Janine Johnson, Michael Lloyd Pinq, Kitty Corbin, Judy Duff, The Concentrations, Jimmy James, and a few major surprises. Here, Donna Williams sings "Road To Reason", and oh how utterly wonderful this is. It lifts my soul and makes my spirits soar. Donna Williams took the melody and played with it like a temptress, seductively coaxing sultriness out of every note. WOW!!! This is Donna's fourth release with us. She was brought to me by Leee John, lead singer of Imagination, who recommended her for our "Disco 2008" album, for which she sang "Let Me Be A Sinner". Then on our recent "Yesterday And Tomorrow",album, she did the most stunning job reinventing Miquel Brown's classic "So Many Men So Little Time". Then we blew everyone away with "Landed On My Feet". But up till now, we never dreamed she could be as stunning as this, and this one is going to be a hard act to beat. The album was distributed by Wienerworld, who have put out all our Northern Soul DVDs, and this time we look certain to get it sold in all the remaining major record shops around the country. And remember the whole theme of this special album - "I know there's better times ahead for us".