Little Willie John

Nineteen Sixty Six: The David Axelrod & HB Barnum Sessions

This has been described recently by its producer, David Axelrod, as “one of the best albums that I ever did”. And in spite of its sub-zero fidelity reproduction, a previous (and dubious) issue of some of …

Candi Staton

Evidence: The Complete Fame...

1970 erschien bei Fame Statons Debütalbum. In den folgenden Jahren stieg sie zu einer der erfolgreichsten Sängerinnen des Southern Soul auf. Mit ihrer Version des Tammy-Wynette-Hits ’Stand by Your Man’ ge…

Ike & Tina Turner

The Kent Years

The Undisputed Truth

The Undisputed Truth (180g)

Motown-Produzent und Songwriter Norman Whitfield gründete The Undisputed Truth, um den psychedelischen Soul, den er mit den Temptations in Songs wie »Cloud Nine« und »Psychedelic Shack« entwickelt hatte, …

Mod Jazz Rides Again

• The Mod Jazz series has inspired many imitators, but the original is still the best, as this latest volume proves. Expertly compiled, it captures the top crossover points between jazz, Latin and R&B. If…

Ready Or Not: Thom Bell Philly Soul Arrangements & Productions 1965 - 1978

87th Off Broadway / Larry Sanders

Instant Replay / I'm In Love

Berna-Dean

Don't Try To Tell Me / Laughing On The Outside

James Carr

Complete Goldwax Singles

Produktinfo: Regarded by many as the greatest soul singer of all time, these are all 28 of James' legendary Goldwax singles: A- and B-sides. "Arguably the greatest deep soul singer of them all" - Mar…

James Carr

Man Needs A Woman

Produktinfo: The Memphis legend's second album is every bit the equal of his first. The original track listing is augmented on the CD by bonus tracks for maximum soul satisfaction In a month tha…

Arthur Conley

Im Living Good: The Soul Of Arthur Conley

Like several of his 60s peers, Arthur Conley’s career was damned by the success of one record – in his case, ‘Sweet Soul Music’. For many on the periphery of soul music, that song was the beginning and th…

Carolyn Crawford

Get Up And Move / Sugar Boy

Diese Kent-Single wurde schon seit einiger Zeit mit Spannung erwartet. Auftritte im 100 Club und anderen Szene-Clubs haben es zu einem unverzichtbaren »Floorfiller« gemacht. Die Flip-Side »Sugar Boy« ist …

The Damned

Machine Gun Etiquette

Sie waren die erste UK-Punkband die einen Plattenvertrag unterschrieben und markierten mit ihrer auf Stiff Records erschienenen Debüt-Single ›New Rose‹ gleich den ersten Höhepunkt einer Bewegung nach der …

Jackie Day

Dig It The Most: Complete...

THE COMPLETE JACKIE DAY - DIG IT THE MOST It has been at the back of my mind to compile an album of tracks by Jackie Day, a charming and elegant woman I met in the 80s, for many years. Back then I want…

The Delfonics

La La Means I Love You / Sound Of Sexy Soul

From 1971 onwards, “The Sound Of Philadelphia” dominated black American popular music in much the same way as Motown had done for most of the previous decade, until it moved out of Detroit at the end of t…

The Delfonics

The Delfonics / Tell Me This Is A Dream

Ace’s series of CDs that will issue the Delfonics complete Philly Groove recordings continues with a pairing of their fourth and fifth albums (the third was a “Super Hits” set), originally released in 197…

Sugar Pie Desanto

Go Go Power: Complete Chess Singles

It’s one of those names that sticks in the brain, but a 1964 television appearance by Sugar Pie DeSanto was also impressive enough to instantly spring to mind when I was asked to write these words about o…

Doris Duke

I'm A Loser

Ursprünglich 1969 auf Canyon veröffentlicht, wird diese Platte heute von vielen als das größte Deep Soul-Album aller Zeiten geschätzt. Unser CD-Digipack enthält ein Booklet mit neuen Linernotes des Produz…

John Edwards

Careful Man

From the same label as Sam Dees' hit compilation, 23 tracks from later (Detroit) Spinners lead John Edwards, including influential club sound 'Tin Man', 11 previously unissued and other pocket stripping r…