ONE 45: NORTHERN SOUL: Nicola Watchman Smith: author, researcher

{quote}The vinyl is Billy Butler's 'The Right Track' It's not necessarily my favourite Northern Soul song. And it's perhaps not even the one I would go to kind of first saw that kind of sticks in my head is being kind of that dance floor filler, but it's really special to me in that. And when I first started looking at northern soul, I was a researcher. And this is the one record where I realized that there was a bridge between the music that I knew in my family home - soul music that my mum would listen to often and the scene that I was researching around northern soul so this is the one moment the first moment when I suddenly realised that the music I knew and loved anywhere was the music of northern soul.{quote}Nicola Watchman Smith: Newcastle Station, 12th September 2017Author, researcher, music enthusiastBilly Butler: 'The Right Track' One 45 interviews - audio
Nicola Watchman Smith: author, researcher, Billy Butler: The Right Track

 

"The vinyl is Billy Butler's 'The Right Track' It's not necessarily my favourite Northern Soul song. And it's perhaps not even the one I would go to kind of first saw that kind of sticks in my head is being kind of that dance floor filler, but it's really special to me in that. And when I first started looking at northern soul, I was a researcher. And this is the one record where I realized that there was a bridge between the music that I knew in my family home - soul music that my mum would listen to often and the scene that I was researching around northern soul so this is the one moment the first moment when I suddenly realised that the music I knew and loved anywhere was the music of northern soul." 

Nicola Watchman Smith: Newcastle Station, 12th September 2017 

Author, researcher, music enthusiast 

Billy Butler: 'The Right Track'  

One 45 interviews - audio