What you have here is a premium double dose of unreleased 70′s soul music. Jerline & Friends were never heard of beyond the boundaries of home base in Chicago. After morphing into Royal Flush they managed to sell some units with the album Hot Spot, but still kept their thing outside the mainstream. The original “Joy Trip”, released on the UK Street Soul label in 2010, is a sublime stepper, mirroring with its sensual string action classics such as Starvue’s “Body Fusion”. This “Pt. 2″ is a stompier cousin, rather urging than seducing the dance partner for a joined trip towards the bedroom. “Tell Me” is a perfect partner in crime. It’s a dramatic and pumping narrative about surviving the low points of a relationship. Lead singer Jerline Shelton attacks both tracks with clever vocal stylings, coming slightly from the left-field, but never losing the groove.