He’s celebrated for nutting out with Huey Piano Smith’s Clowns — but this is classic, essential,  mid-60s southern soul, recorded for Stax and American in Memphis, and FAME in Muscle Shoals, with knockout ballads.

‘Two tracks from early 70s Los Angeles, around the time of his eponymous first LP. Say You is a superb updating of the Monitors’ harmony hit from 1965, given the distinctively sensitive McNeir treatment. I’m Sorry is a self-penned slow-burner that builds a perfect dancefloor beat.’

Superb female vocal soul trio from Alabama, recorded by Sounds Of Memphis — southern flavoured ballads, dancers, pop, sister funk.

All fifteen A-sides, along with nine B-sides, by one of the 1960s very greatest soul singers.

Plenty of killers, old friends like The Soul Children and William Bell alongside nuff new discoveries. Check the samples (if you think you’re hard enough).