Somehow I went my entire childhood having never heard of Hutson, but a chance encounter with the greatest hits package Lucky Fellow, The Best of Leroy Hutson (Charly Records) was the turning point. Though I bought the a disc simply because it was associated with Mayfield's funk house Curtom Records, whose roster included Baby Huey & the Babysitters and Linda Clifford, it was Hutson's cool sound that blew me away. Not many cats can sound laid-back and aggressive at the same time, but Hutson's voice and music was icy hot.

for the whole story, go to:

http://blackadelicpop.blogspot.com

Leroy Hutson is one of my favorite artists, and there are a whole bunch other people here who dig him as well.
I have his stuff on CD and most of it on LP as well. I'm still missing a couple of albums on LP, but I'm working on it

It's nice to hear that you discovered, and enjoyed, Mr. Hutson's music.
Spread the message!

BIG fan. BIG

Mr.Sooooulpower should be around soon to break it down a lil' further.

funkpill said:

Looks like you quite like the Love Oh Love album, pill

... nothing wrong with that, though, as it is indeed a great album


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Leroy Hutson is definitely underrated. Only heard about him a year or so ago after reading a book about Curtis Mayfield and saw that Leroy was signed to the Curtom label and replaced Curtis as lead singer for the Impressions at one time too. Maxwell's music and singing style reminds me alot of Leroy Hutson too.

thetimefan said:

Leroy Hutson is the truth!!!!

I found out about Leroy Hutson via youtube. I ran across a video that had songs that sampled and the songs that they sampled. The video had Erykah Badu's No Love, which is one of my fav EB songs, and of course Lucky Fellow was played as the song that was sampled.

TD3 said:

You saw that coming.

No doubt, Lee Hutson isn't just one of the most underrated Soul singers of the 1970s, but he was an amazingly talented producer. He was staff producer at Curtis Mayfield's Curtom records and he wrote, arranged and produced gems like these:











And this one ...



Leroy Hutson isn't only my favorite Soul artist of the 1970s, but I'm also proud to call him my friend. Last year, he appeared on my radio show for a two-hour-special about his music - his first radio appearance in many years. It was some deep talk, so check it out here:

http://wrir.org/x/modules...oryid=8528



And of course I'm especially proud of these two pieces in my collection:




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MrSoulpower said:

Very cool!

... but damn, that Feel The Spirit cover is in pretty bad shape

MrSoulpower said:

That was a very cool episode of Midnight Soulstice. I still have the show on my computer. Heck, I think I'll give it yet another spin tonight

LoveIsTheMessage said:

Due to heavy usage.
The record plays fine though. It was the first Leroy Hutson album that I found, back in the early 1990s.

MrSoulpower said:

Yea, that's what I thought
It is a great album

LoveIsTheMessage said:

yup...

from begin'n to end

See,,, I told chu.

TD3 said:

It's nice to see Lee getting some love around here.

MrSoulpower said:

He always gets it here

"All Because of You" is my favorite Leroy track. IIRC, it's played on the Midnight Soulstice podcast.