Troubled Child (CD - 2009)

Personnel: Charles Wilson (vocals); Mike Welch (guitar); Daniel Hovey (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Christian Tremblay, Lysiane Gravel-Lacombe (violin); Daphene Benichou (viola); Todd Thiel (cello); Scott Young (flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Bruce Swaim (tenor saxophone); Morgan Price (baritone saxophone); Kenny Rittenhouse, Kevin Burns (trumpet, flugelhorn); Ronald Friedman (French horn); Reginald Cyntje (trombone); Benjie Porecki (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Steve Gomes (bass instrument); Joshua Kay (percussion); Calley Bliss, Todd Googins, Karla Chisholm (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: David Earl.

Recording information: Severn Studios, Severn, MD.

Arranger: Willie Henderson Jr.

Though Charles Wilson has been a regular on the Chicago soul scene since the mid '60s, waxing a series of obscure but outstanding singles and opening for legends like Tyrone Davis and Bobby Bland, he didn't succeed in gaining the attention of a wider audience until the early '90s. In 2004 he released IF HEARTACHES WERE NICKELS, a hard driving collection of deep soul, on the venerable Delmark label. TROUBLED CHILD is in much the same vein, and boasts loping, organ-drenched grooves that could easily have been recorded at Hi studios in the early '70s. minimize