James Kelly Duhon's modern soul gems on Jude get reissued by Tramp

Tramp is recirculating a pair of James Duhon's post-Ascots recordings "So Far Down" b/w "So Trusting" from the late 70s. 

Here's the scoop...

James Kelly Duhon was a native of Beaumont, Texas, a city about 20 miles from Port Arthur, Texas. In the late 1960s, he was in a Port Arthur group The Ascots who cut the Northern Soul classic "A Few Feet From The Gutter" for Huey P. Meaux's American Playboy label. The Ascots also featured Al Trahan who waxed "Funky Lu" and the better known dancefloor burner "Can I Feel It" for Port Arthur's Spindletop. After the Ascots, Duhon released four 45s including the Jonathan Toubin fave NY Night Train spin "Grave Yard Creep" – a split single with the hard groovin' flip "Color Me Soul" voiced by his Ascots pal Talmadge Armstrong which Huey P. Meaux produced for JetStream – and the sought-after Jude label sides "In School" b/w "Heart Breaker (Child Maker)" from 1974 (which later received national release on Mainstream Records), "Pusher Man" b/w "Drifter" from 1975,  "So Far Down" b/w "Can You Learn To Love Me" from 1978 . When he retired from the road, he settled back in Beaumont, Texas where he died of natural causes in 1998.

Get a copy of Tramp's reissue of James Kelly Duhon's single from their forthcoming compilation "Can You Feel It Vol. 3 - Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-85" right here. 

Listen to "So Far Down" and "So Trusting" below.