A few years before Maurice White and Earth, Wind & Fire established their Los Angeles outpost, James Dockery made that same Chicago-to-LA trek alone and deeply embedded himself in the soul music culture of the Left Coast.

Alert soul aficionados will note the name Art Monday IV, better known as Arthur Monday for his "What Goes Around Comes Around" 45 on Stage Music.

Monday brought that record's same buoyant production to Dockery's solo turn on "My Faith In You Is All Gone," penned by one-time Syl Johnson_and future Al Green_songwriter Earl Randle.

Sporting Soul Craft's unadorned red label, "What Goes Around Comes Around" is not only gold in the North of England, but a contagious soul eccentricity with appeal for ears in every cardinal direction.