CP Love was born in New Orleans on 1 May 1945, and raised in the city on it’s jazz and R & B roots. He first cut for Earl King and Elijah Walker’s King Walk label in the 60s, with the deep “You Call The Shots” being his first great performance. This cut featured his high clear baritone over a dead slow NOLA rhythm, pumping piano and big horns.

In the early 70s he was one of the Crescent City artists who joined Wardell Quezergue’s conveyor belt to Malaco. And it is not a big exaggeration to say that his Chimneyville 45 “I Found All These Things” outshone all the other tracks cut in Jackson in the early 70s. This really is the crème de la crème of deep soul.