Willie Hightower

In his hometown of Gasden, Alabama, long-lost Sixties soul singer Willie Hightower is still
singing lyrics like these in local clubs: "My friends get invited to those fancy balls/But
nobody gives me a call." The phone has started to ring again for Hightower, however:
Damon Albarn's label has issued Willie Hightower, an excellent collection of eighteen
Southern-soul tracks from the singer's first bloom in the Sixties. Hightower has a... More >