It was announced yesterday that Daptone imprint Dunham Records will release the Screaming Eagle of Soul’s, the late and great Charles Bradley, final album on November 9, 2018, right after what would have been the soul singer’s 70th birthday on November 5. Black Velvet features ten studio recordings never before included on any album including lead single “I Feel A Change.”
It features new songs recorded during the sessions from each of his three albums, heard here for the very first time in all their scorching glory: “Can’t Fight the Feeling,” “Fly Little Girl” and the heart-wrenching single “I Feel a Change”; hard core rarities like his funk-bomb duet with LaRose Jackson, “Luv Jones,” the psychedelic groover, “(I Hope You Find) The Good Life” and the ever-illusive alternate full band electric version of “Victim of Love”; sought-after covers of Nirvana’s “Stay Away,” Neal Young’s “Heart of Gold” and Rodriguez’s “Slip Away”; and the title track “Black Velvet,” a stirring Menahan Street Band instrumental to which Charles was never able to cut a vocal.