Sometimes archaeologists dig and find dinosaur bones; other times, the find the rounded arrowheads of a forgotten tribe that starved to death. The Numero Group’s “Eccentric Soul” series faces a similar dynamic, occasionally unearthing a captivating, little known piece of soul history—Good God! Soul Messages from Dimona—and sometimes, as on The Tragar and Note Labels, they discovered two discs of generic R&B from Atlanta produced by saxophonist Jesse J. Jones. The story’s a good one—Jones had a gambler’s heart and dockworker’s ear for songs—and there’s something touching in all of these songs, evidence of people’s thwarted desires to be somebody. Unfortunately, there’s little memorable here musically. Most of the voices are acceptable, and the songs are modeled on the hits of the day. Listen to this enough and you can probably convince yourself a few songs are better than they are, and a few talents will seem wilder than they are, but there are worse obscurities you could fall for. Still, sometimes things are obscure for good reasons.