Judith Hall - Out Of The Picture

"Out Of The Picture", Judith Hall's fabulous debut for our album "Northern Soul 2008". Judith is just fabulous, so willing, so lovely, so co-operative, and such a warm hearted person, and it makes me proud to have artists of this calibre on Centre City Records. Judith was discovered by our Tahira Jumah. She had been a jazz singer, but once she turned her hand to soul, she excelled and makes a perfect Centre City artist. Thanks to the wonderful Tahira Jumah, who has been scouring England for the best soul talent there is, our new album is a vocal masterpiece, a new hope for the future, and a proof positive that great soul music is far far far from dead and buried. It is true to say that I have tried many times in my life to capture that quintessence of what makes a Northern Soul record actually work on the dance floor, and with records like Sidney Barnes "Standing On Solid Ground" and Chuck Jackson "All Over The World", I certainly hit a popular chord. But this time I have never been more artistically satisfied. Everything about this wonderful new song suggests the magic and energy of the era that I fell in love with as a teenager.