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Eccentric Soul - The Forte Label: Vinyl 2LP Will Butler with the expanded presence ofFrom 1967 1980, Kansas Citys Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement beehiver y from The Ray Ons and Four Darlings, funky soul from Gene Williams Lee Harris, Louis Chachere, and The Fantastiks, downtempo disco ballads from James Whitney and Sharon Revoal, and the newly independent work of James Browns former Soul Sister #1 Marva Whitney. Compiled here are 28 of the labels enduring sides, contextualized with