Cicero Blake

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1. Should I Go

2. Could This Be Love

3. See What Tomorrow Brings

4. Don’t Do This To Me

5. Take It From Me

6. Soul Of Pain

7. Sad Feeling

8. You’re Gonna Be Sorry

9. Step By Step

10. If I Had My Way

11. Loving You Woman Is Everything

12. Shing-A-Ling

13. Here Comes The Heartache

14. Face The Case

15. Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow

16. Bad But Beautiful Bag

17. A Woman Needs To Be Loved

18. You Got Me Walking

19. Your Love Is Like A Boomerang

20. How Can I Go On Without You

21. Doin’ What Comes Naturally

22. Dip My Dipper

23. Be Good To Me

24. Don’t Wanna Blow My Chance With You

Here Comes The Heartache is a tribute to legendary Chicago singer Cicero Blake. Concentrating on his soul years, compiler Dave Box has selected 24 tracks originally issued on Success, Renee, Brainstorm, Tower, Capitol and Sound Plus etc.

Included are all the favourites such as “How Can I Go On Without You”, “Sad Feeling”, “Here Comes The Heartache” and “You Got Me Walking”. Although major success has always eluded him, Cicero Blake is much-admired by soul and blues fans worldwide.

Much of his earlier work is typical of the ‘hard soul’ style often associated with Chicago, but Cicero is quite a versatile singer and many of his 1970s tracks were quite polished and sophisticated. Sadly, he wasn’t a very prolific recording artist during the golden period of soul music; in fact, he only had ten singles issued in a sixteen-year period. By the late 1970s, the soul boom was over and his style became much more downhome and bluesy.