GENTLY DOWN YOUR STREAM

ot quite an album upon release in 1973, Columbus, Ohio s Capsoul label was going more for Meet The Supremes than What s Goin On. Gently Down Your Stream, the only album by the Four Mints, is really just a collection of their five singles, with an unissued track tacked on. In 1997, the album was issued on CD, but a faulty turntable belt slowed down these popping group harmony jams to a crawl, making the CD nearly irrelevant. We brushed it aside for our inaugural Numero release, Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, but had to take a serious second look when a grip of unreleased tapes turned up two weeks before Thanksgiving in 2006. We ve remastered the original ten-track album, added three never before heard rehearsals and instrumentals, dredged up a few unseen photos, and even got resident Ohio soul expert Dante Carfagna to write the introduction, making this, the definitive Four Mints.