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ブライアン・エプスタインの目にとまり、アップルからデビューした事でも知られる英国が誇るブルーアイドソウルシンガー、ジャッキー・ロマックスの初期音源集と元イエスのトニー・ケイが率いた名バンド、バジャーの74年作をセットにした2枚組。注目の初期音源はアンダーテイカーズ解散後、アメリカに渡って結成したバンド『Lomax Alliance』のシングル&未発表デモ14曲と67年ソロ名義でのシングル2曲を収録。またボーナス・ディスクのバジャー74年セカンド・アルバムはジャッキーがボーカルを務め、かつて洋楽秘宝館でCD化された一枚で(現在廃盤)、アラン・トゥーサンがプロデュースを担当しジャッキーが曲を書いたファンキーかつゴキゲンなホワイトR&B傑作です!!

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LOST SOUL is a package to draw in and collect together previously lost and loose elements from the career of british blue eyed soul singer/song writer Jackie Lomax.

Jackie Lomax was the lead vocalist and bass player with The Undertakers, a stompingMerseybeat outfit of the mid 1960 s. At the end of 1965 Jackie joined an Anglo American line-up playing R&B called The Lost Souls, with a name change in 1966 to Lomax Alliance.

Brian Epstein came to New York and offered to manage Jackie Lomax as a solo artist but ended up signing the band. Tracks were recorded in New York and London for a single and an album, produced by John Simon. Only the single got released in the Uk, and a different single under a different name in the US , Epsteins death curtailing further action for the band, but Lomax squeezed out a further solo single.

Lomax continued hisBeatle associations through signing as a writer / artist to Apple in 1968. Following several releases Lomax recorded with blues outfit Heavy Jelly in 1970, then released two solo albums through Warners upon a return to the US.

At the end of 1973, Jackie Lomax joined Badger, a previously prog rock band originally formed by ex-Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye, and proceeded to turn them into his type of R&B/soul band. The band became a vehicle for his songs and singing and they released one excellent LP, White Lady, in 1974.

In more recent times Lomax has kept busy as a singer and guitarist for hire .

Package contains the post Undertakers / pre Apple released but now rare singles, and previously unreleased album demos, all newly re-mastered.

A bonus second disc with the White Lady Lp , newly remastered from the CBS master tapes.

A track by track commentary by Jackie Lomax and photos from the Lomax archive.

Plenty of profile for Jackie Lomax in recent times with books and articles on Apple, a new solo release in 2009.

LOST SOUL is a collection of truly great British soul / R&B styling that fans of the likes of Steve Ellis and Terry Reid
will be sure to find much to admire.