Wah Wah 45s celebrate the joy of the cover version! The label has always had a keen ear for a re-working of a classic piece of music, whether it be an unexpected brass take of a soft rock or hip hop cut from Hackney Colliery Band, or a sultry rendition of a soul nugget from Stac, with the only conditions being that the cover takes the original piece of music somewhere new, fresh and exciting.

The label's 15thanniversary seemed like a good time to not only re-visit a number of very canny covers from over the years, but to throw in a couple of new and exclusive ones for good measure too and as a way of saying thank you for all your support over the last decade and a half. So, as well as well loved renditions of Bill Withers' The Same Love That Made Me Laugh from Ashley Thomas and Part-Time Heroes' gorgeous re-imagining of The Boss' Dancing In The Dark, you get a spine-tingling, pitch shifting, electronica flavoured take of Rose Royce's ballad Wishing On A Star from Stac x Blue Daisy and The Gene Dudley Group's fierce dance floor funk version of Richard "Groove" Holmes No Trouble On The Mountain (itself a Wah Wah 45s release back in the day!) featuring the rasping vocals of Annie Frankenstein.

Add to that Lea Lea's recent cover of Talking Heads' Psycho Killer, Scrimshire's updating of Tammi Terrell's version of All I Do, with Stac on vocal duties, as well as club classics from Henri-Pierre Noel, Bev Lee Harling, Alister Johnson and a couple of big hitters from Hackney Colliery Band and you've got one heavyweight haul of version excursions on your hands.

Henri-Pierre Noël - A Fifth Of Beethoven (The Wah Wah Version out July 14th 2014)

Suspicion - The Originals (Teza Cappuccino Edit)

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Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - Bound For The Promised Land

From their new album, Panola County Spirit, out now.

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Walker Family Singers "Jesus Gave Me Water"

Extract from album "Gonzales - Presidential Suite" (2002 / Kitty-Yo)

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Chilly Gonzales - So Called Party Over There

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Nature Boy Cover performed with my jazz band, Blue Apple Quartet
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BLUE APPLE QUARTET - Miss Celie's Blues

This song is included in the album "Freedonia" 
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Dr. Lonnie Smith - Back Track (Gitte Verfuehrt Edit)

Included on Freedonia's album
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I won't play your game (no more)

By Bobby Hebb '66

Arranged by C. Richardson

Ann Street Soul

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