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 Miller, 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.

TRACKLIST:

A1. Ronnie Miller - I Got The Hots For You

A2. Leaves Of Autumn - Slip Back Into The Magic

A3. Mirage - Bend A Little

A4. People - Misty Mood

B1. Stroke - Without Your Love

B2. Tom Miles - Old Home Movies

B3. Jan Lewis Group - Oh Senor

B4. Synod - Future Shock

C1. Mikael Neumann - Hey Flicka

C2. 5-3-74 - Love Is Not For Real

C3. Babe - It's A Long Road

C4. Jeff Elliott - Magic Sands

D1. Charles Vickers - Mister Jones

D2. AOH - The Answer Lies In Love

D3. Dianne Elliott - The Ring

D4. Phil Palumbo and Pals - It Was A Very Good Year