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Loose ends. Nothing different really from the other volumes, maybe I unwittingly happened to save the best for last but that's a matter of taste.More loose ends to be tied soon.Ace, 2009The Complete Goldwax Singles Vol. 2 1966-1967disk 1disk 2

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You're right, I skipped volume 2 but that was because the store didn't have it. I'll get it, at some point, but I'm not in a hurry because this is volume 3 and contains no less than 56 songs.Goldwax as a company went on the way down during this period, musically it continued to peak. Featured artists are of course James Carr but also Spencer Wiggins and Timmy Thomas amongst others. Singles means

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Will be back ASAP. Comments, re-ups, etc. are being worked on.

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Quick! Quick! I need to hurry.If there's a place where there's still a whole lotta shakin' going on at the moment, it's my beloved Chile. I'm going! No disaster tourism, at least not intended, I just happened to have a real bad timing in booking my ticket.For the road, I need some earth-shattering tunes (ha ha) and I've found them in this set. Perhaps Goldwax needs an introduction; not to you of

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An oldie I found yesterday. Old music and old CD. Funk, soul, disco and extravaganza. It's highly irrelevant but no mention of LaBelle is complete without mentioning their outfits and show. An insane mix of glamrock, space-age and show.The origins of LaBelle go back to girl groups of the 1960's, on different labels and with different names but the Bluebelles scored a few hits. Around 1970 things

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"Volumes 1 - 45". Not 45 CDs, fortunately, just 7. Let's start with the question "Who is George Mitchell?" George Mitchell is the person who recorded the music on this collection, he's not one of the musicians. George Mitchell was, at 17 in 1961, interested in blues music and decided to check the bluesmen and -women out. From 1967 on he started to work his experiences into a master's thesis and a

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A small one to finish a year which saw too little updates on this blog.A couple of years ago there were these pointy, punky rock 'n roll bands which managed to become some sort of hype, think Franz Ferdinand or Kaiser Chiefs. It's probably more to do with the state of the music biz at the time than with the bands because it wasn't really revolutionary what they did, however much fun they were.

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Mulatu Astatke: Ethiopian bandleader, managed to draw attention to his idea of jazz music in the 1960's and 70's. The Heliocentrics: a bunch of musical mavericks. Inspiration Information: the title of a series of musical collaborations on the Strut label. For those of you who now think of Booker T. Jones' latest work with The Drive By Truckers: this is a fully contemporary album, collaborative in

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1960 - 1964. From the "Producers and songwriters series" from Ace. Writer and producer, of "Here comes the night" by the Them, for example. He also tried his own hand at performing, as a singer and musician, but with not much success.A CD about a producer, so we need to listen for the sound quality and arrangements, eh? Don't worry, if anything's very obvious, it's that. There are little details

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"The Very Best Of"? Possible, more accurate is 'The very best of the Stax years" which lasted from 1968 'till 1974. Their entire career spans from 1948 until, let's say, 2000 when 'Pops' Staples died. It's a bit dubious, their last album is from 1984 and I'm not sure if they performed that much during the 1990's but the point is that there's more Staples than what's on this CD.That said, if you

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Just a quickie. This "Definitive Collection" on Chess is also known as "His Best" on the same label. It's neither definitive nor his best per se but that shouldn't matter as these are original Chess recordings from 1955 'till 1966. Rock 'n roll basics.The first of the 20 tracks are 'Bo Diddley' and 'I'm A Man', musicians include Willie Dixon, Little Walter and Otis Spann. Booklet comes with

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The later King sessions! I didn't want to upload this just yet, I'd rather have done it chronologically. I haven't gotten the earlier works yet, this is beautiful and it was sitting in my collection too long already.Proto-soul. Close to soul but somehow not fully there but it's in his vocals though. His presentation is powerful and energetic, lifting even the tackiest song to greater heights. And

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This is a set with 3 CDs and a DVD with no music by Led Zeppelin but with music that led to Led Zep.The three CDs are roughly one with acoustic blues, the second with Chicago blues and a third with rock 'n roll. If you know LZ but not much music history in general, this set will surprise you. If you do know more about music, you might think that tRoLZ could also have been called The Roots To Rock

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Somewhere between evolution and creationism sit the Finnish who simply invented themselves. They're normal humans but in their own style. This is no secret, everyone can get the documentation and information from the Finnish government. With one drawback: it's in their own language so nobody but the Finnish has been able to understand it so far. And right on the very same drawing boards that the

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"The original versions of these famous songs". "26 classics from the 50s and 60s, heard here in their original, pre-hit, versions."A journey through music history with a selection of songs that became very famous when covered by someone else. You may know examples not on this CD, you may be surprised by finding out that the version of a song wasn't the first.Well known songs in obscure versions

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African 1970's rock. That's it, that's all. Africa, easy. Rock means prominent electric guitar and the 70's component sits a bit in the ambition of the tracks, a few are over 5 minutes long. The 'funk' is there too, wouldn't it make more sense to mention it if it was missing? E.g. "Warning: Nigerian funkless music". Anyway, pretty far out stuff compared to comtemporary western popmusic.This is a

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"The 1950s Recordings". That's starting in 1955, after winning a talent show in the Apollo theater, aged 22, and ending in 1960 with a few later recordings. And that's the music from before Joe Tex became famous.There's nothing wrong with this CD: good music, the usual insightful context in the booklet, pictures of record labels and some pictures of a young and baby-faced Joe Tex. What is wrong

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A little bit down you find the Sisters of the South CD. I liked quite a few artists on that set but to me one stood out: Precious Bryant. If you've gotten the Sisters disk, perhaps you'd want to listen to her specifically. That's Precious Bryant, her style and her type of songs. And that's how she sounds on her first album from 2002, "Fool Me Good". The Truth is her second album. It's still

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The good news: the problem is mental, not physical. Except it physically stops me from updating this blog regularly. But there's not really something wrong with my fingers, eyes, ears and wallet so there's life, Jim, but not as we know it. Will cut through the backlog of comments & mail soon.Vampisoul, compilation. No info therefore, just a selection to whet your appetite and make you buy the

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The Definitive Soul Collection, no less. This would be preposterous if it was from artists less than Sam & Dave but it's in fact the title of a series of compilation albums from Rhino and the other artists are fitting too. I sometimes take stock on what I've put up here and what I still really like to upload. It took too long for Sam & Dave to appear, they were in the top of the list of missing

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This is an interesting album, there's a lot of stuff to mention so bear with me. Starting with the label: Dixiefrog. "Dixie" stands for 'the old south' of the (now) United States of America, "Frog" is used to indicate a Frenchman. The label's based in France and the linernotes are in English and French. Dixiefrog has more roots music artists on offer.Then it says "Music Maker" big on the front,

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I was a bit slow getting to know Andre Williams. It might have something to do with Mr. Williams dropping off the radar during the 1980's due to excessive substance abuse. He's been back for a decade or so with fairly typical setups: blasting over a young garagerock backing band, including Jon Spencer's, Jack White* and the Green Hornet. And if you've never heard of The New Orleans Hellhounds

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"The soul of a black country" part 2 and very similar. The main raison d'etre of these albums is to underline that there's no need to consider country as a 'not-black' style of music. Or perhaps that great music and great musicians aren't particularly bothered by conventions or color of skin. You can have your own ideas about it, the CD contains 24 tracks as food for thought.There's country songs

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Weird. That much is clear, I have not much other insight to offer over the album. Listening to the lyrics makes things worse but you can't help it. It's a good thing though: I found they're not singing about "teddybears with tommyguns", which could have been and would've gone well with the album title. Once you're through the lyrics-listening-phase it gets better: you're singing along without

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'De Volkskrant' is a Dutch national newspaper. And recordlabel apparently because they released this 5 (five!) CD box. And, since this can be had for just 25 euro, I started to think the people from De Volkskrant had taken "freedom of press" a bit too literally. Not so, the actual record label responsible for this is SDEG, Swamp Dogg's very own Entertainment Group. According to the introduction

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Time flies, sorry to make you wait for this. Final Donny Hathaway here, I don't know if there's really more of him out but this is needed to close the previous uploads. Extension Of A Man (1973) is the last in the line of development starting with Everything Is Everything. It's not very advanced, certainly not as advanced as you think if you've only heard the opening track, just another "next

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"West African Music In Britain, 1927 - 1929". Even more African than the previous post except for the recording part. This CD is about Zonophone Records, a London based label. The artists recorded in Europe and the discs were then (all) sent to Africa. There's not much left of label or recordings, most of it ironically at the EMI archives in the UK. Continuing the irony: this compilation is

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An excerpt from the cover text: "Nigeria 1970. Highlife, Afro-beat, Rock, Jazz & Native Blues rub shoulders and are turned out at an unprecedented level. New styles meet old styles. Newfound national confidence follows the near break-up of the nation following the Biafran war." The suggestion is that the early 70's were a period of considerable optimism and possibilities for Nigeria which was

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Continuing with Donny Hathaway, obviously without wanting to do Roberta Flack injustice. The two knew eachother from university and recorded a lot together. This is from the early 70's and they recorded again around the time Donny Hathaway chose to end his life, in the meantime they had a fall out, presumably thanks to Hathaway's mental state.This album is quite comparable to the other Hathaway

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I'm in the process of moving houses (with about the same speed as I update this blog). The nice thing is finding all these surprising things I'd completely forgotten about, stuff I didn't know I still had and stuff I lost years ago. Like this CD, for example. I've been staring at an empty case for years, trying to think what I've done with the CD. Turns out it sat in an old portable player, deep

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The looks & sounds are vintage but this is a contemporary article, you may know the Dap Kings from hip funkjazzsouletcetera compilations or Amy Winehouse albums (let me explain this subtly: AFAIK they were hired by Amy Winehouse and they like to work with Sharon Jones). Band + singer are as good as it looks and they don't try to re-invent the soul & funk wheel but just keep it rolling.Release is

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"Recorded Live at the Troubadour in Hollywood and the Bitter End in New York". More covers, 7 out of 8 tracks, 2 jam-session style versions of over 10 minutes. Some tracks are close to a studio version, some have a noticeable audience participation (great on 'You've got a friend').My CD is a real ATCO / Atlantic pressing, this title doesn't seem to be in the Rhino catalog. No nice informative

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"New Orleans: The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75" in 25 tracks.A 27-page booklet this time: less info on the New Orleans part (but it's an addition to the vol. 1 booklet rather than a copy) and lots of pictures of 7'' disclabels (none in vol. 1). Similar: brief artist info and some fantastic photography. Meaning 'volume 1' is the better package but volume 2 has one track more. Funny: if you want

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"New Orleans: The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75" in 24 tracks.The 39-page booklet starts with making a case why New Orleans is different and why this is especially true for funk from New Orleans. New Orleans: you'll find Allen Toussaint, The Meters (+ solo Nevilles), Dr. John and even more New Orleansish 'Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indian Band' among others. The text describes the

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Soul by label: LA based Money records, soul from the 2nd half of the 60's and 1973 (the label had several phases of existence, see booklet). A few previously unissued tracks and no really big names, save for Bettye Swann perhaps, or hits. A mix of everything: ballad style works, up-tempo poppy tracks and a funky organ instrumental (the TKO's ?!?). Music quality varies and you can tell which are

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I don't have time to properly update this blog so I cut back on the description and I promise to bring something different than Donny Hathaway soon (although I've more of him lined up too)."Music composed and conducted by Donny Hathaway supervised by Quincy Jones". Quincy Jones' contribution isn't completely negligeble but this is very much a Donny Hathaway album. At least it's made mainly by

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Donny's 2nd album, 9 + 2 tracks, 1971. There are some differences between 'Everything Is Everything' and this album. If "Everything" is best described as Soul, 'Donny Hathaway' is then very much Gospel. Hathaway got an early career start singing gospels with his grandmother, from the age of three. His grandmother thus had a profound influence on the musical shaping of young Donny but she also had

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My ultra-seductive friend miss F. from the Philippines sent me a link to a Donny Hathaway track she knew out there. With my l33t interweb skillz I found there was a whole album and downloaded it. That was my first proper introduction to Donny Hathaway and it left some impression. Will follow up.Hathaway was a musician, writer, arranger with one small flaw: he was convinced he couldn't sing.

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"Artifacts From Bygone Days"Let's start with some text from the cover, I'll refer to it throughout the rest of my loooong writing. This should give you a good indication though whether it's worth reading further:"Deluxe, full-color 144-page clothbound book with 48 tracks on two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chines Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues, and much, much more.

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"The Swamp Dogg anthology 1968 - 1978". 24 tracks of steaming soul going to smooth funk. A few Swamp Dogg/Jerry Williams tracks but mostly songs produced by him from a wide range of artists including Gene Pitney, Patti La Belle and Arthur Conley.Jerry Williams started as an artist, in the late 1950's already. I only knew him as a producer and the material on this CD is from his finest hour as

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Wende is a young Dutch woman singing French chansons. The 'chanson' here is a song sung in French with an emphasis on the lyrics and neat, mature music. It's not exactly pop music (at least not outside France) and it doesn't fit into another category either but is just pleasing. Should you sing the great American songbook in French, you could pass it off as chanson. The last time the chanson was

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Very much like volume 1: Dutch sung songs are more noticeable, English sung with Dutch accent also more noticeable. Overall obscurity level goes up a little but there are also a few of the biggest hits of the 60's on this volume. Details though, it's just more of the same so if you enjoyed the first set then this is highly recommended too.I bought these sets sort of 'mid price' (10 euro each),

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Nederbeat is the Dutch variety of beat, the 60's poprock. The subtitle is "beat, bluf & branie" where "branie" translates roughly to guts or attitude. This is a 2CD collection of some of the largest 60's hits coming out of the Netherlands including some worldwide successes. There's a volume 2 with 2 more Cd's (will be posted soon) and a volume with 'B-sides' (which I don't have).The quality of

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I'm sorry, I lacked inspiration. Partly because there wasn't music I was enthousiastic about or I didn't know I was. This CD for example, is an album I am very fond of but it wasn't until I saw on Last.fm how often I'd played it when I realized how well I like it.It's rock, leaning towards classic hardrock and not punkrock or metal. Not particularly heavy though and the quality of the melodies

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"Featuring the Wailers, Skatalites, Upsetters". This 19 track CD consists of 2 parts: track 1 to 13 are "the Coxsone years" and the rest is "the Lee Perry years". Studio One, 1963 to 1966. A claim from the linernotes: "This compilation of Peter's work for the producers Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd and Lee Perry is very nearly a complete overview of Tosh's recordings for them."Neville 'Bunny Wailer'

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I'm going to do a bit of guessing. About *you* but it really tells something about me so don't be offended if I'm completely wrong. I guess: you've heard the name Clydie King before but you don't have an instant mental picture with the name. You've heard some of her songs before, you have some of her songs in your collection and you've been humming along happily with some of her songs. You've

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Waldeck is Klaus Waldeck, an Austrian trip-hop / lounge / down-tempo / blah artist. He's made a few albums with a group of regular contributors and his work's been remixed before. Ballroom Stories, his latest album, is a sort of break in his reportoire. His usual vocalists Joy Malcolm and Brian Amos are less prominent on this album in favor of 'Zeebee' and the music style is influenced by

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I bought this CD a couple of months ago but haven't paid much attention to it. The reason I bought it is because of the name Swamp Dogg, the great soul producer known for fine soul like Charlie Whitehead or Doris Duke for example. The reason I haven't listened to it extensively is that the singers Sandra Philips and Bette Williams aren't very familiar to me. This now is exactly why this CD was

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I've been neglecting my inner rasta. My inner rasta is generally cool with that, my inner rasta is actually always cool, but with the rainy, sunless winter we're having at the moment I felt a bit of discomfort in my inner rasta. My inner rasta needed a little attention.Holy shit! Funk, Soul and Jamaica. On 1 CD! It's the perfect cure for every rasta with a winter depression. First, the time frame

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This album is so beautiful, it makes me cry. Not really, of course, ha ha (*LOL!*), because I don't cry. My eyes are just a bit sensitive but that's strictly medical. But this album is so beautiful, it almost makes me cry. I don't know what else to think of it.There's her voice. The voice is important. She can sing in a piercing high but also sing with a lower, more fragile voice. If you can find

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The impression is a pub. An Irish pub? Perhaps, the singer has a thick accent and I hear a fiddle. The music is about as dark as the pub, the musicians are just customers with instruments, it's not really a performance. It could be the scene of a dream, something surreal touching on reality but not quite. Nightly Things is eerily beautiful. Not pretty and not just beautiful on the outside, but

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It's almost 2 years ago since I started with this blog. Since then, a few links have disappeared, RS.de has become RS.com, links were posted somewhere else judging by the numbers or the swift disappearance, some of the uploads have been re-upped by other people. Generally speaking is it impossible to tell how many downloads my uploads have had safe for that the time it's been on the blog is a

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A golden oldie. For the music of course but the box is from 1991. One reason for posting this is that there's a new generation who may not know about this 4CD set, another is that I've only recently bought it. The box was a must have when it was released but also a too expensive for me at the time. I knew I wasn't going to forget about this so I rather spent my money on less 'important' music,

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... from the late Ike.Rev-Ola / Cherry Red Records, 2006Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm - Early Times(new link)

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How famous are these people? They're new to me but have a 10+ album discography and are working close to 20 years already afaik. See for yourself on their website. I'm not familiar with their previous work but I think their experience shows and is important. I'd say this is 'Americana' in a broad sense, every song is done in its own style but it all fits the bill. If I compare it to the Blanche

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"San Francisco's Uptown Soul" Sort of Kent label sampler; the focus is San Francisco late 60's soul and the material is from a few small labels but mainly Villa records. It's the usual Kent CD, plenty to read and a number of pictures, a few previously unreleased tracks.Need to free space on your harddisk for this? Stuff's from 2nd half of the 60's, uptempo and a lot of it revived and popular a

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I can't remember how I first got this but my impressions when I first heard it were pretty neutral. After a while I started to have some favorite songs on the album and some some material I disliked. The most remarkable piece of info on Jesca Hoop I found was that she's been a nanny for the children of Tom Waits, if you search you can find she's from a mormon upbringing and has lived in rural

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Volume 2 in every respect. Mainly Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea, solo or as duo, with a few other artists and you can often play the 'Name The Original' game again. If you've tried the first volume and saw the fun in it, this is a safe download. Musically it's a bit more 60's, the sound quality is good. Booklet contains English translations and nothing more. I recognize of course that having

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"Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974"A long time ago I posted an album called 'The keyboard king of Studio One' by Jackie Mittoo and I'd like your attention for that one again. I think I've finally managed to get a good rip but this is more about its cover. On the front and back of the CD you see photographs taken of Mittoo by Coxsone Dodd at Kingston Airport, immediately prior to Jackie Mittoo's

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The first time I heard this album, I got visions of large dust covered pick-up trucks where the sun burns mercilessly through the rear window, the people on their way to church or gun shop. Then there was a song called "I can't sit down" and I came really close to locking all the doors, closing the curtains and doing a bit of line-dancing myself. Some research revealed Blanche is from Michigan

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"Back to the basement for a double helping of tear jerkers from the heart and soul" & "A collection of classic, rare and undiscovered soul ballads delivering a message of passion and elevation". So, that pretty much paints the picture here. If you've listened to some of the compilations on this blog then you probably get a feeling of what to expect when I say that most songs are from the first

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What made me curious about this album was I read somewhere that the artist's been in a mental institution and also used stories of other patients as inspiration. I expected something like Syd Barett's music but I got something more like Brian Wilson's. Don't know how I overlooked that possibility.But really, my association with this music is Beach Boys. Not the close harmony singing but the

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"Impossibly Rare Funk From The Bay Area" and "Rare late 60s/ early 70s Bay Area funk, from the legendary Golden State Recorders."What I understand from the linernotes is that Golden State Recorders wasn't really a label but a recording studio. The "Recorders" part gives it away but in every other respect does this CD fit in the Ace collection of label releases. The Golden State Recorders was

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"Crucial" is the name of the series this CD belongs to, that explains why they managed to fit all the 'crucial acoustic blues' on 1 CD and why you won't find, say, Robert Johnson on this. The Crucial series has similar titles like 'Crucial Harmonica Blues', 'Crucial Chicago Blues', etcetera. Rather than just a collection of blues compilations, they're label samplers; shop windows to albums by

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A couple of years ago, I wanted to learn some more about fado. Fado is music from Portugal and Cristina Branco is a well known fadista (I think the word is). That's all I know and I bought this CD to learn more but forgot it at my parents' place so I still don't know anything about fado. It's folk music, in the sense of "world music" rather than "hippie music", it's traditional music with a

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"Boss Soul, Funk and R&B sides from the vaults of the KING, FEDERAL and DELUXE labels". Compiled by Matt "Mr. Fine Wine" Weingarden and released by Vampisoul. So, that should be enough to start downloading. Perhaps it's even enough to buy without listening first; it was for me. Not that I've heard of mister "Fine Wine" before but everything else looked good enough, and it is.I'm not quite sure

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EMI, the company you love to hate. Love 'em this time, this 6th installment of Talcum Soul comes to you reasonably priced and without DRM or, exceptionally, copy protection(*). The recipe is unchanged: "twenty six stonking northern soul greats", there's a bit more to read in the booklet than before and the artwork follows the previous 5 editions (lots of white, baby blue and pink but the

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Looking back on the history of music, there's something to be said for the 1960's and 1970's as a very interesting period for us today. Whether that's because of the music or because of recording techniques is something to think about; it's weird of thinking the decade between 1965 and 1975 as more relevant than the centuries before that but the impact of that time on today's culture is

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I haven't had an Ace CD up here for a while but that's not because of any shortage from new Ace releases. Ace continues to chronicle soul labels and this 2006 CD is volume 2 to the 1997 "volume 1". Kent compiler Ady Croasdell doesn't know either why it took nine years to release the follow up.New York based Spring and sub labels Event and Posse released music between 1968 and 1983, the bulk on

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I hope you don't notice it too much but this is in fact a blog. A personal place on the world wide collection of connected computers to store rants, trivia and distorted facts. The lost souls who do frequent this place know to scroll down immediately to the link but between the title and the link I have MySpace. This Morcheeba album isn't the most likely candidate for this blog but I'll try to

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"Lost UK Soul - 1968-72". See this as the label compiler of the Beacon label, a small indie ran by one Milton Samuel. The "lost" part of the title I'm not sure I can explain, I mean, were these songs ever found? It's not really you'll find massive hits on this CD but I didn't grow up in the UK at the time, of course so I don't know. The "UK" part is correct in that the label was based in the UK

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About a year ago, I started using Rabbitscare.com. A few months ago, my rs.de account expired. That means that nearly every link from before October 2006 is gone.Updating is slow going and extremely boring but I've started the job and I intend on finishing it somewhere before christmas. Not saying which year of course. More in detail:- non rs links can be assumed to be dead anyway,- rs.de links

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The thing I like best about this album is that it's something I like to listen to when I don't know what else to listen to. I find it interesting enough to play often but it's unobtrusive enough to not bother too much. That 'balancing act' characterizes this album imho. It's very poppy but trades in some hit potential for intelligence, it's light without being lightweight.What I hear is a

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Mavis Staples doesn't get an introduction, she's been around long enough. This CD is a brand new production but with more links to the past than just the main artist. Its title for example refers to the racial inequality of a couple of decades ago and the progress being made since, and some of the songs are re-interpretations of the message songs associated with that civil rights struggle. The

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In March I posted a compilation CD, Confessing, Deep Soul From New Orleans, published by Grapevine, a small UK label. The website had lots of interesting CDs and I chose this CD because of the heartbreaking tearjerker by The Masqueraders I found on Confessing.This compilation is "The best of The Masqueraders 1965 -1972". Starting out from the highschool, late 50's, the group pretty soon found

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Downloading music is great to try it out. I can't download indiscriminately because there's simply not enough time to listen to all of it. There's easy 3 days worth of music in my playlist and that's with trying to keep it to a minimum; I rarely spend 72 consecutive hours behind my computer. Sometimes, I like to listen to something that I know I like and I need to squeeze that in too. So before

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When one of my aunties was a girl, she worked as a stewardess for a while. A couple of decades later, when I confiscated all the mono singles in the family, I got one of her souvenirs too. Artists 'Spokes Mashiyane And His Big Five' sounded fantastic but simply having a 7" from Africa was very special.This album, "An authentic selection of South African Township Swing Classics from the 50s & 60s"

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What is hip? What is cool? Ask a couple of German DJs with a bunch of jazz and latin samples and this is the answer. Acid-jazz-lounge-cool-swing, wear fashionable clothes and have a rosé in an über trendy beachbar. Soooo last century, you say? Perhaps, but so am I.Afaik, this is a collection of songs previously released as 12"s. If we forget about fashion we're left with an album full of lazy,

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I've spent a considerable part of my life playing Grand Theft Auto, long enough to get to know the in-game radio stations very well. So if a song remains great to hear after it passes for the umpteenth time, it must be a great song. 'Añunga ñunga' is on the Vice City soundtrack and is a song that stays exciting, no matter how often I hear it. With that, and my trip to Cuba in mind, I ordered this

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"The Trojan Anthology". A recent cry for reggae (in the comments) left me wondering: when was the last time I bought a reggae CD? It's not very important, I can always browse through a few boxes to see if there's a CD I've overlooked in the past.This quite unremarkable set for example. The Heptones, a vocal trio from Jamaica, recording through the 60's and 70's. Line-up changes, financial

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Am I living in the right times? Wouldn't I rather have been born in the, say, 1940's so I could experience the 60's and 70's first hand? Well, yes, that would've been interesting but I'm not sure if it would be so much fun without internet. It's a 'small' question compared to C.W. Stoneking's dilemma since he seems to be born roughly 80 years too late.This guy plays pre-WW2 music like an original

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Phenomenal? I leave that up to you to decide. This album is my introduction to Ruthie Foster but it's her 5th album already. With her voice she can be labeled as a contemporary soul singer, more influenced by music from the past than attempting to get chart success with modern RnB. Her voice is worth listening to, it's the best quality of this album imho, next to the lyrics which are mostly

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This can be finally brought to a closure. I received an innocent email from Jack whether I had anything by 'Lee Roberts'. I didn't, but he knew the artist under his former name Arthur Conley. From just curious I got intrigued when I found out that Conley had lived in the Netherlands under the name Lee Roberts and that there indeed was a recording made by him using that name. It was based on a

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This album sold itself, according to the guys at the record store. All they had to do was play it in the shop and someone would take a copy of their hands. I can testify that's true; it's how I bought the CD.The booklet contains some beautiful old photographs but doesn't tell anything about the musicians, for that I had to use the internet. The band is a bunch of New York based guys, mostly

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What's up with R@pid$h@re? It made sense to me for a while: rs.DE shifted to rs.COM, end of story. A couple of months ago, I noticed I could extend my subscription on rs.DE and it accepts uploads again. There are no premium-points on rs.DE anymore but apart from that it seems nothing's changed.I don't mind paying for a fileservice but I hate to pay twice. If anything I'd rather get me a premium

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The single most important event to happen in the 1980's was me getting a cassette recorder. True, there was Pac-Man, 'The Wall' fell and I lost my virginity sometime too but we have to keep those things in perspective. Without enough money to buy records, I depended on radio and cassettes to listen to music and cassettes made it possible to record radio and copy complete albums for a fraction of

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Another anniversary release, this time for the legendary Stax label. There's no shortage on Stax compilations (I've had a few up before, which I can't replace atm) and you probably have a lots of tunes on this set on other CDs too (tracklist).It doesn't hurt that much since these songs are classics, both timeless and era-defining. You need to be aware of other Stax-collections because there is a

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I've been addicted to the Kent releases of Ace records for a while now, they make up a large part of this blog. This year is the 25th anniversary celebration of Kent, celebrated with the re-release of the first Kent LP on CD. 'For Dancers Only' is copy of that first LP from 1982 compiled by "Harboro' Horace" (Ady Croasdell) who did this for the main reason of seeing his name on an LP sleeve...I'm

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Odd chances. Say you record a jam which is good enough as a single release ('Behave Yourself'), you need a B-side too. And then the B-side turns out to be even better, creating the smash hit and signature tune 'Green Onions'. Needless to say you need to follow up with an entire album to cash in when the fire's still hot. That, in short is the story behind this album. There wasn't much (but a

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"The Ultimate Broadway Funk", because that's what this is about, funk rather than soul. Dyke wasn't one of the inventers of funk but was one of the shapers of it and the first to use the word "funky" in a songtitle, as the original artists behind 'Funky Broadway'. That song became #1 in the RnB charts sung by Wilson Pickett.Dyke was moderately successful in live and shot at 27 in 1971 his career

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The follow up on the 'Movers!' post. "Greasy & explicit soul movers 1956 - 1970" contains 28 tracks by Andre Williams under various names and with various bands, mostly sung by Williams but a few instrumentals too.How much fun Movers! is, it can only contain a little depth due to it's breadth. Considering this CD has music from a 24 year period (emphasis on late 60's), you'll understand there's

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I'm usually silent for no good reason but last week I wasn't in because I had to test some cocktails and sample some cigars. A rather good place to do this is Cuba where you can concentrate on this serious business in nice weather, with beautiful women around you and music everywhere. Hard work, I tell you.Tourists look for entertainment and Cubans look for convertible pesos and where both

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RnB again. I haven't checked in detail but the overlap with the RnB boxes is large, could well be every song on this CD can be found among the 400 on the Membran boxes. There's a good reason though to mention this release.The 'dirty' in the subtitle refers to 'sexually explicit', or rather sexually concealed, language in the lyrics. Sometimes openly but mostly hidden hints to sex, RnB has a

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The words 'Deep Soul' never fail to attract my attention and the combination with 'New Orleans' only makes me more curious. This compilation lives up to the expectations, you get Deep Soul from New Orleans.Here featured aren't the biggest names but you'll find Toussaint and Hayes/Porter among the writers. The performers are less known but deliver, other lovers of 'Deep Soul' and 'New Orleans'

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"A collection of greasy soul, sleaze funk, psychedelic cumbia, fuzzy jazz and more..." but I think we can refer to this as the 2006 Vampisoul sampler: "23 Hip-shakin' tunes from the Vaults of Vampisoul Records". Nothing more and nothing less than a catalogue to get you to buy more of their CDs and as such a great assistance because this CD (or 2 LP) has a wealth of unknown obscure but delicious

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Minnie Riperton is best known for 'Loving You' and perhaps a few tracks she sung with a band called Rotary Connection. There's more to discover, in her own career and she did a lot of backing on other people's music too. This CD holds her 2nd and 3rd album (1974 & 1975), with the 'Loving You' and 'Inside My love' hits. She died in 1979 at the age of 31 of cancer; another reason why she hasn't the

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Final RnB box (pfew, finally!). It's my favorite of the four on this blog because although I can't sing at all, I too have a bass and falsetto voice that need to get out sometimes. This is music with the emphasis on vocal harmony, a broad category, yet Doo-Wop isn't hard to distinguish from something like Barbershop. The recordings are almost exclusively from the 1950's, before that the doo-wop

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Biyouna is an Algerian danser, actor and singer. The singing part is the least remarkable to Algerians, she has released one worldwide album before (in 1999) but for her other performing she's a superstar in her homecountry.The texts are sung in Arabic and French, the booklet provides translations in French. Not strange given the history of Algeria and France but it's for the lyrics only. The

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'Fine Brown Sugar' is dedicated to the women of the blues, seeing how they're not immediately associated with the blues and having to compete with men in a male dominated society and blah, blah, blah. The rarity of female blues singers justifies this set although that argument loses its strength a little when you get 4 CDs * 25 tracks full. Not that rare then. What I'm trying to say is: if you

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"From the original style movement 1958-68" is an attempt to provide the soundtrack to the English mod culture of the 60's. That explains the tracklist of this odd compilation. An excellent collection of popular hits, the 'thematic' approach makes it more interesting than just any 'greatest hits'. This 2CD set is also labelled with "#5" and "#6" as it's a follow up on a 4CD set released in 2001,

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