Genre > Soul, R&B, Funk

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By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Import

1. You Hit the Nail On the Head
2. If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause
3. Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time
4. A Joyful Process
5. We Hurt Too
6. Loose Booty
7. Philmore
8. I Call My Baby Pussycat
9. America Eats Its Young
10. Biological Speculation
11. That Was My Girl
12. Balance
13. Miss Lucifer's Love
14. Wake Up

1. Everybody's Talkin'
2. Goin' In Circles
3. Chain Reaction
4. You Really Didn't Mean It
5. Not on the Outside
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6. Put a Little Love in Your Heart
7. Don't Wake Me Up in the Morning Michael
8. I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else
9. Right On!
10. Shattered Pride

1. Comin' Round the Mountain
2. Smokey
3. If You Got Funk, You Got Style
4. Hardcore Jollies
5. Soul Mate
6. Cosmic Slop
7. You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me
8. Adolescent Funk

1. Whisper
2. That Was Yesterday
3. Society
4. What You Don't Know
5. It Really Hurts
6. Helpless Man
7. That's Where I'm Coming From
8. Look At All The Lonely People

Track Listing:

1. Ain't Got Time
2. Sweet Exorcist
3. To Be Invisible
4. Power To The People
5. Kung Fu
6. Suffer
7. Make Me Believe In You

1. Bad News
2. Snatching It Back
3. Soul Deep
4. I Smell a Rat
5. Doin' Our Thing
6. You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
7. Instant Reaction
8. Making Love
9. The Feeling Is Right
10. Back Door Santa
11. I Can't Do With You

1. Hard Workin' Man - Pat & The Blenders
2. Conquer the World Together - Bunny Sigler & Dee Dee Sharp
3. Grasshopper - Soul Devalients
4. It's So Wonderful - Johnny Williams
5. Makin' Up Time (Parts 1 & 2) - Frankie & The Spindles
6. Theme for "Five Fingers of Death" - Bunny Sigler
7. Good and Plenty - Carolyn Crawford
8. Darling Come Back Home - Love Committee
9. Yellow Sunshine - Yellow Sunshine
10. Ghetto Woman (Parts 1 & 2) - Ruth McFadden
11. Everybody Needs Good Lovin' (Parts 1 & 2) - Bunny Sigler
12. Days Go By - Bobby Bennett

1. Tired Of Being Alone
2. Call Me (Come Back Home)
3. I'm Still In Love With You
4. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
5. Love And Happiness
6. Let's Stay Together
7. I Can't Get Next To You
8. You Ought To Be With Me
9. Look What You Done For Me
10. Let's Get Married

1. Chain Of Fools
2. Money Won't Change You
3. People Get Ready
4. Niki Hoeky
5. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
6. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
7. Good To Me As I Am To You
8. Come Back Baby
9. Groovin'
10. Ain't No Way

1. You Let me Down
2. I Settled for Less
3. All These Things You Are to Me
4. I Got to Make It
5. I Got to Make It Pt. 2
6. ALl Is Well When All Is Love
7. World of Love Between Us
8. What Is He Doing
9. If You Just Have to Do It
10. Honey Bee

1. Funky Skull-Parts 1 & 2
2. Ma, She's Makin' Eyes At Me
3. Bold And Black
4. Dance Of The Dervish
5. Everybody Loves My Baby
6. Cold Duck Time-Parts 1 & 2
7. Say What
8. Funky Doo
9. Silver Cycles

When the irresistible sound of "Dance To The Music" lit up the nation's airwaves in early 1968, it was obvious that Sly Stone's "whole new thing" was about to blow everyone's mind sky-high. This live-wire chart smash used the time-tested "introduce the band" technique to showcase trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, Sly's brother/guitarist Freddie Stone, saxman Jerry Martini, Sly's sister/pianist Rosie Stone, bassist Larry Graham and drummer Greg Errico—all from different cultural/racial backgrounds. This radical new sound would have far-reaching musical implications—the second album by Sly & the Family Stone is full of grooves and beats just as intoxicating as "Dance To The Music," featuring addictive heavyweight numbers like "Higher" and "Ride The Rhythm"—tunes ripe for Cynthia's cautionary warning, "All the squares go home!"

1. Dance To The Music

2. Higher

3. I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real)

4. Dance To The Medley (Music Is Alive; Dance In; Music Lover)

5. Ride The Rhythm

6. Color Me True

7. Are You Ready

8. Don't Burn Baby

9. I'll Never Fall In Love Again

Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973's Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut "If It Were Left Up To Me" for their 1985 Clinton-produced LP Freaky Styley. Jazz icon Miles Davis reportedly sat his band down to soak up inspiration from multiple playings of Fresh, a work ranked #186 in Rolling Stone's top 500 rock albums of all time. "If You Want Me To Stay," "Frisky" and "If It Were Left Up To Me" all got plenty of airplay and chart action, the last of Sly's works to score such treatment. Following the almost-scary political manifesto of 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On, Fresh seems particularly, well, fresh! And a little nasty too!

1. In Time

2. If You Want Me To Stay

3. Let Me Have It All

4. Frisky

5. Thankful N' Thoughtful

6. Skin I'm In

7. I Don't Know (Satisfaction)

8. Keep On Dancin'

9. Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)

10. If It Were Left Up To Me

11. Babies Makin' Babies

By late 1968, the third album by Sly & the Family Stone absolutely blew the roof off the building. Life sounded so tangibly real it almost seemed like it was cut live. The title track, along with "Love City," "Plastic Jim," "Into My Own Thing" and especially "Dynamite!" signaled a perfect alliance between Sly's multi-influence, far-reaching musical vision and the burgeoning hippie ballroom community, already spreading like lawn daisies throughout the land. Never before had juicily syncopated beats dovetailed so perfectly with distortion-laced rock guitar. "You don't have to die before you live," sings Sly on "Life" and he's not kidding! The lyrical content of Sly's music becomes even more graphic with detailed workouts like "Jane Is A Groupee," a riveting description of this fascinating rock 'n' roll sub-culture. Then, on the other hand, you have the full-bore party numbers like "M'Lady" and "Fun," songs fully capable of launching anybody's weekend with reckless abandon!

1. Dynamite!

2. Chicken

3. Plastic Jim

4. Fun

5. Into My Own Thing

6. Harmony

7. Life

8. Love City

9. I'm An Animal

10. M'Lady

11. Jane Is A Groupee

Stand!, the fourth album from Sly & the Family Stone, could have almost pulled double-duty as a greatest hits package for the band. Laced with sure-fire winners, this 1969 LP put Sly and Co. firmly on the road to super-stardom. Four of the album's seven songs, including the Hall of Fame tracks "Everyday People" and "I Want To Take You Higher," shot straight into the national charts. This visionary work also introduced far-sighted FM radio stations to the goosebump-inducing sounds of "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey," a song that accurately portrayed racial tensions in America in a manner that no one could have seen coming. On a musical level, the band was now tight as a cork in a bottle of vintage wine. No doubt about it: Stand! has to be the tastiest mélange ever of rock, politics, funk and soul!

1. Stand!
2. Don't Call Me Ni**er, Whitey
3. I Want To Take You Higher
4. Somebody's Watching You
5. Sing A Simple Song
6. Everyday People
7. Sex Machine
8. You Can Make It If You Try

Since it took almost two years to make, the fifth album by now bonafide superstars Sly & the Family Stone had everyone salivating in anticipation. Needless to say, Sly did not disappoint! 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On finds the Bay Area-based genius getting funkier than before, even as his artistic vision becomes darker. Some may have been disappointed that Sly didn't simply re-create the chart successes of earlier singles, but who can argue with the flat-out brilliance of turning recent big hit "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" on its head to create the mind-boggling "Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa"? Two of this hypnotic album's best tunes—"Family Affair" and "Runnin' Away"—were gigantic chart hits, proving beyond any doubt that Sly Stone could totally deliver the goods!

1. Luv N' Haight

2. Just Like A Baby

3. Poet

4. Family Affair

5. Spaced Cowboy

6. Brave & Strong

7. (You Caught Me) Smilin'

8. Time

9. Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa

10. Runnin' Away

11. Africa Talks To You The Asphalt Jungle

12. There's A Riot Goin On

By the time Sly Stone, former producer/talent scout for Tom Donahue's Autumn records, decided to step out front and form his own band in 1967, he knew exactly what the music business needed: a multi-racial, boy-girl outfit that skillfully blended elements of soul, rock, jazz and funk. Sly & the Family Stone's debut, A Whole New Thing, didn't completely tip Sly's hand, but it got the ball rolling in the right direction by adding fuzzed-up guitar to soulful vocals, a tasty horn section, occasional protest lyrics and just enough Golden State psychedelia to make Sly's groundbreaking work unmistakable. This revolutionary new sound wouldn't fully catch the nation's fancy until the spring of 1968, but it was already perfectly clear that A Whole New Thing was going to be nothing less than what it proclaimed! It was, indeed, the harbinger of a whole new thing!

1. Underdog
2. If This Room Could Talk
3. Run, Run, Run
4. Turn Me Loose
5. Let Me Hear It from You
6. Advice
7. I Cannot Make It
8. Trip to Your Heart
9. I Hate to Love Her
10. Bad Risk
11. That Kind of Person
12. Dog

Universal Motown’s multi-platinum-selling, Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/actress Erykah Badu returns to the music scene with her new album New Amerykah featuring the debut single "Honey." Laced with Erykah’s bluesy grit and MC style vocals, the song is bolstered by producer’s 9th Wonder’s razor sharp hip hop beats. Badu describes the song as “an old school track with some funk on it.” Badu has enlisted some of the most talented, groundbreaking underground producers and engineers in the hip-hop game to support her breakthrough return, including Grammy Award winning producer 9th Wonder (Jay-Z, Nas, Mary J. Blige), Madlib, Mike “Chav” Chavarria and R&B singer Bilal. “The music is the star,” says Erykah, “I just laid down my vocals and let the music breathe while the melodies tell the stories.” The album is part one of the series New Amerykah Part 1 & 2. Badu, a Dallas native, emerged in 1997 with her masterpiece debut album Baduizm as a primal force of nature connecting old school soul with contemporary R&B. The album garnered her numerous award nominations, pulling 2 coveted Grammys (Best Female R&B Vocal, Best R&B Album) and multiple Top spots on critics’ Best-Of-The-Year Lists. In 2000 she followed up with the critically acclaimed platinum selling album, Mama’s Gun. In 2003 the EP World Wide Underground was awarded Gold certification.

1. Amerykahn Promise
2. The Healer/Hip Hop
3. Me
4. My People
5. Soldier
6. The Cell
7. Twinkle
8. Master Teacher
9. That Hump
10. Telephone
11. Honey (Bonus)

In a desert of computerized over-produced faux-R&B, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings� "Naturally" is a cool glass of water for anyone thirsty for Real Soul and Funk Music. On this, their sophomore release on Brooklyn�s own independent Daptone Records, they have succeeded in transcending the boundaries of time to bring us face to face with the naked body of vintage Soul. From the first track, a funk-infused shuffle, the Dap-Kings carve a deep and heavy groove which only gets deeper and heavier as the needle cuts further into the flesh of the album. Through ten solid tracks, �Naturally� explores the many moods and tempos of a group that is quickly earning a reputation as one of the hottest live acts across the nation, stretching their versatility to map out the full panorama of the idiom in which they so effortlessly reside. They are able to bring us back to 1970 not with the usual bell-bottomed conventions and wah-wah clich�©s employed by so many retro-funk wannabe�s, but by reaching back to the original source of all that good music: sincerity, integrity, melody, and an unwavering loyalty to rhythm. In arrangements punctuated by bold horns and tastefully accented with piano, vibes, and strings, the Dap-Kings road-tight rhythm section expertly frames the skeleton of a classic Soul album, breathing life into a body of songs penned exclusively for Sharon Jones� unique voice. In turn, she masterfully and instinctively reaches beyond the basic melodies into her gospel-soaked roots to pour every drop of herself into each note that passes her lips, elevating the music from craft to art. With every moan she reminds us that before Whitney, Mariah, and Jay-Z, there was Tina, Aretha, and J.B.

1. introduction
2. Got A Thing On My Mind
3. What Have You Done For Me Lately?
4. The Dap Dip
5. Give Me A Chance
6. Got To Be The Way It Is
7. Make It Good To Me
8. Ain't It Hard
9. Pick It Up, Lay It In The Cut
10. Casella Walk

In a desert of computerized over-produced faux-R&B, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' "Naturally" is a cool glass of water for anyone thirsty for Real Soul and Funk Music. On this, their sophomore release on Brooklyn�s own independent Daptone Records, they have succeeded in transcending the boundaries of time to bring us face to face with the naked body of vintage Soul. From the first track, a funk-infused shuffle, the Dap-Kings carve a deep and heavy groove which only gets deeper and heavier as the needle cuts further into the flesh of the album. Through ten solid tracks, �Naturally� explores the many moods and tempos of a group that is quickly earning a reputation as one of the hottest live acts across the nation, stretching their versatility to map out the full panorama of the idiom in which they so effortlessly reside. They are able to bring us back to 1970 not with the usual bell-bottomed conventions and wah-wah clich�©s employed by so many retro-funk wannabe�s, but by reaching back to the original source of all that good music: sincerity, integrity, melody, and an unwavering loyalty to rhythm. In arrangements punctuated by bold horns and tastefully accented with piano, vibes, and strings, the Dap-Kings road-tight rhythm section expertly frames the skeleton of a classic Soul album, breathing life into a body of songs penned exclusively for Sharon Jones� unique voice. In turn, she masterfully and instinctively reaches beyond the basic melodies into her gospel-soaked roots to pour every drop of herself into each note that passes her lips, elevating the music from craft to art. With every moan she reminds us that before Whitney, Mariah, and Jay-Z, there was Tina, Aretha, and J.B.

1. How Do I Let A Good Man Down?
2. Natural Born Lover
3. Stranded In Your Love feat. Lee Fields
4. My Man Is A Mean Man
5. You're Gonna Get It
6. How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?
7. This Land Is Your Land
8. Your Things Is A Drag
9. Fish In The Dish
10. All Over Again

On October 2nd, renowned Soul and Funk band Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings released 100 Days, 100 Nights on their self-owned independent label, Daptone Records. Since the 2005 release of their Naturally LP, the band has continued to build a worldwide following for their raw soulful recordings and blistering live performances. Like the highly acclaimed Naturally LP before it, 100 Days, 100 Nights was recorded in their self-built, self-operated, all analog recording studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn and bares the unmistakable Daptone Soul Sound - highly in demand among music fans and tastemakers alike. In the last year, producers such as Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Hank Shocklee, and Kenny Dope have been among those who came knocking at Daptone�s door seeking the inimitable Dap-Kings sound. The Dap-Kings lend a tougher edge to their own productions for such artists as Rhymefest, Lily Allen, Ghostface Killah and Amy Winehouse. Meanwhile, Sharon Jones herself has past the time between touring lending the her soulful voice to projects for Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, They Might Be Giants and others.

1. 100 Days, 100 Nights
2. Nobody's Baby
3. Tell Me
4. Be Easy
5. When the Other Foot Drops, Uncle
6. Let Them Knock
7. Something's Changed
8. Humble Me
9. Keep On Looking
10. Answer Me

1. Up From The South
2. T.I.B.W.F.
3. Budos Theme
4. Ghost Walk
5. Monkey See, Monkey Do
6. Sing A Simple Song
7. Eastbound
8. Aynotchesh Yererfu
9. King Charles
10. The Volcano Song
11. Across The Atlantic

1. Chicago Falcon
2. Budos Rising
3. Ride Or Die
4. Mas O Menos
5. Adeniji
6. King Cobra
7. His Girl
8. Origin Of Man
9. Scorpion
10. Deep In The Sand

1. I Love Music
2. Raff
3. Conga
4. Avi-Vo
5. Malik
6. Darkest Light
7. Dgunji
8. What You Need
9. Baba Hya

Side 1:
Relating To A Psychopath
Boo
Sexual Revolution
Hey Young World Part 2 (feat. Slick Rick)
Sweet Baby (feat. Erykah Badu)
Harry

Side 2:
Gimme All Your Lovin' Or I Will Kill You
Don't Come Around (feat. Sunshine Anderson)
My Nutmeg Phantasy (feat. Angie Stone & Mos Def)
Freak Like Me
Oblivion
Forgiveness
Blowin' Up Your Speakers

Soundtrack From The Original Motion Picture
Including 11 New Recordings

Side A:
Loverboy Remix (feat. Da Brat, Ludacris, Twenty II, Shawnna)
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (feat. Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, DJ Clue)
Didn't Mean To Turn You On
Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica) (feat. Mystikal)

Side B:
If We (feat. Nate Dogg, Ja Rule)
All My Life
Want You (feat. Eric Benet)
Loverboy (feat. Cameo)

Side C:
Lead The Way
Reflections (Care Enough)

Side D:
Never Too Far
Twister

Following a path blazed in Belize and the Bahamas, The Numero Group finds yet another stop on the soul diaspora tour: Dimona, Israel. Between 1975-1981, a group of American ex-pats took their native sounds of Detroit and Chicago and intermingled them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture. The results are a heavenly mix of spiritual soul and jazz with an undercurrent of gospel psychedelia. Featuring the Soul Messengers, the Spirit Of Israel, Sons Of The Kingdom, and the Tonistics, Soul Messages From Dimona is the only living document of a thriving community at both the center and fringe of the world.

Conceived as a collaboration between the soul legend and a handful of gifted young admirers from the worlds of contemporary R&B and hip hop, Lay It Down is drawn from a series of inspired sessions that yielded the most high-spirited, funky and often lushly romantic songs of Al Green’s latter-day career. The album is a refreshingly old school jam, with everyone laying down the music together, face to face, heart to heart, soul to soul.

The project features the sophisticated R&B voices of singer-songwriters John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and Corinne Bailey Rae, and it was co-produced with Green by two of hip-hop's most innovative players, drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson from the Roots and keyboardist James Poyser, the go-to guy for high-profile artists ranging from Erykah Badu to Common. Add in Brooklyn's celebrated Dap-King Horns (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse), guitarist Chalmers "Spanky" Alford (Mighty Clouds of Joy, Joss Stone) and bassist Adam Blackstone (Jill Scott, DJ Jazzy Jeff), among others, and you've got a modern soul-music dream team, fronted by the most expressive voice in the business.

Al admits, “That’s the only way I know how to work, that’s what I’ve done all my life. You just write it from here.” He taps his heart. “That’s what we do every Sunday. We never write a sermon now. If you can’t preach out of here,” tapping his chest again, "you have nothing to say anyway. It’s all from the heart, this whole album, from start to finish."

1. Lay It Down
2. Just For Me
3. You've Got The Love I Need
4. No One Like You
5. What More Do You Want From Me
6. Take Your Time
7. Too Much
8. Stay With Me (By The Sea)
9. All I Need
10. I'm Wild About You
11. Standing In The Rain

Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On is one of the most important and passionate soul records ever made and it directly influenced other artists to take greater responsibility in the meaning of their music. Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, which was a social commentary on the American dream that had given itself to urban and environmental problems including unemployment and poverty. Now available on this 180g Import LP. An absolute must have for the title track alone!

1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Most people are not ready for the truth, but Cherish is. These four singing sisters (Farrah, Neosha, Felisha and Farron King) who hit it big in 2006 with the dance hit “Do It to It” from the Gold-certified album, Unappreciated, are positive that you are ready as well. Their sophomore project introduces a group of young women who have found their unique place in a field full of duplicates and manufactured stars.

The potent first single “Killa," produced by Don Vito and featuring rapper Yung Joc, is rhythmically robust and vocally arresting. Cherish is hardly new to the game. In fact, both of their parents are musicians and their father, who doubles as their manager, was a part of Pop (Professions of Sounds) who once toured with the legendary Earth, Wind & Fire. Replacing the sugary pop confections of the past are confessional R&B jams with scorching lyrics and equally blistering music. “There is not one song on this album where we are not singing our hearts out,” says Felisha without hesitation. “We are focused on delivering real R&B,” says an equally confident Farrah, “We want to be taken as seriously as En Vogue, Sister Sledge, TLC and Destiny’s Child. We are here to stay.”

1. Killa (featuring Yung Joc)
2. Notice
3. Like A Drum
4. Superstar
5. Framed Out
6. Trippin'
7. Before U Were My Man
8. Only One
9. Love Sick
10. Shoe Fanatic
11. Silly

One of Stevie Wonder's best albums and most important works, Innervisions swings between delicate and airy ballads, Latin-influenced rhythms and synth-heavy funk-soul, all while addressing the themes of love, drugs, spirituality and the American dream. This masterpiece includes the smash hits "Too High," "Higher Ground" and "Living for the City." Now available on this 180g Import LP.

1. Too High

2. Visions

3. Living For The City

4. Golden Lady

5. Higher Ground

6. Jesus Children of America

7. All In Love Is Fair

8. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing

9. He's Misstra Know-It-All

Released shortly after Stevie Wonder completed his 1972 tour with the Rolling Stones, Talking Book went on to reach #3 in the U.S. and it serves as the second release in what is widely regarded as his classic period. Despite the strong initial disapproval from label execs, Wonder broke completely from the Motown sound and philosophy here and the record's phenomenal success forced Motown to grant him complete artistic freedom over his work. Talking Book also helped prove to the music industry that R&B artists could find widespread appeal with rock audiences. Features the #1 pop and R&B staple, “Superstition.” Now available on this 180g Import LP housed in a gatefold jacket.

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. Maybe Your Baby

3. You And I (We Can Conquer The World)

4. Tuesday Heartbreak

5. You've Got It Bad Girl

6. Superstition

7. Big Brother

8. Blame It On The Sun

9. Lookin' For Another Pure Love

10. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)

Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On is one of the most important and passionate soul records ever made and it directly influenced other artists to take greater responsibility in the meaning of their music. Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, which was a social commentary on the American dream that had given itself to urban and environmental problems including unemployment and poverty. Now available on this 180g Import LP. An absolute must have for the title track alone!

What's Going On
What's Happening Brother
Flyin' High
Save the Children
God is Love
Mercy Mercy Me
Right On
Wholy Holy
Inner City Blues

The 1970 self titled debut from Detroit's nastiest, most shredding funk-rock group. Arising from the ashes of George Clinton's Plainfield, New Jersey-led R&B group, The Parliments, Funkadelic formed in the late '60s and, in addition to Clinton, included the blazing guitar of Eddie Hazel, organist Mickey Atkins, rhythm guitarist Tawl Ross and drummer Tiki Fulwood. Though firmly rooted in funk and soul, Funkadelic incorporated a dark psychedelic element, influenced by Hendrix and Sly Stone, to create a sound that was unparalleled at the time and since. Sampled by everyone from DJ Shadow to Ice Cube, De La Soul and the Beastie Boys, Funkadelic still sounds fresh today and is the first solid example of George Clinton's eccentric genius.

1. Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
2. I'll Bet You
3. Music For My Mother
4. I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
5. Good Old Music
6. Qualify and Satisfy
7. What is Soul
8. Can't Shake It Loose (1969 Version)
9. I'll Bet You (1969 Version)
10. Music For My Mother (1969 Version)
11. As Good As I Can Feel (1969 Version)
12. Open Our Eyes (1969 Version)
13. Quality and Satisfy (45 Version)
14. Music For My Mother (Instrumental 45 Version)

Maggot Brain, released in 1971, is Funkadelic's all-out masterpiece. Absolutely no one working in soul and funk at the time had the scope, vision and, let's be honest, sheer lunacy to pull off the kind of record that George Clinton and his collaborators have made here. Eccentric funk jams are bookended with tracks like "Maggot Brain" and "Wars Of Armageddon," which are some of the heaviest tracks ever committed to tape. The title track and album opener are nothing short of mind-blowing. An essential classic and the deepest album to come out of the Parliament-Funkadelic canon.

1. Maggot Brain
2. Can You Get To That
3. Hit It and Quit It
4. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
5. Super Stupid
6. Back In Our Minds
7. Wars of Armageddon
8. Whole Lot of BS (1972 Version)
9. I Miss My Baby (1972 Version)
10. Maggot Brain (Alternate Mix)

Release Date: July 8th

Live At The Apollo left no doubt in anyone's mind that James Brown was a live, dynamic performer without peers and that his talent could come across just as strongly on tape as in person. It was a watershed album, both for the 'hardest working man in show business' and for the burgeoning soul music movement. Reissued here on Vinyl LP by Universal Records.

1. Introduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare
2. I'll Go Crazy
3. Try Me
4. Instrumental Bridge
5. Think
6. Instrumental Bridge
7. I Don't Mind
8. Instrumental Bridge
9. Lost Someone
10. Medley: Please Please Please/You've Got The Power/I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me Like You Do/I Want You So Bad/I Love You, Yes I Do/Strange Things Happen/Bewildered/Please Please Please
11. Night Train

Five years since it's original release, Numero's flagship compilation gets a facelift. The new deluxe double album set features a new master, new liner notes, more photos and one additional track. Relive the early 00s with classics by Marion Black, Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr, the Four Mints, Elijah & the Ebonites, Kool Blues, Ronnie Taylor and label founder Bill Moss.

Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label Various Artists Track Listing

1. You're All I Need To Make It - Johnson
2. Who Knows - Marion Black
3. I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You - Kool Blues
4. Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother - Bill Moss
5. Too Far Gone - Four Mints
6. You Can't Blame Me - Johnson
7. Number One - Bill Mos
8. Row My Boat - Four Mints
9. Without Love - Ronnie Taylor
10. I Want To Be Ready - Kool Blues
11. Your Love Keeps Drawing Me Closer - Johnson
12. Hot Grits!!! - Elijah & The Ebonites
13. I Can't Take It - Ronnie Taylor
14. Can We Try Love Again - Kool Blues
15. You're My Desire - Four Mints
16. A World WIthout You - Johnson
17. Go On Fool - Marion Black
18. Pure Soul - Elijah & The Ebonites
19. Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother - Bill Moss

Pressing 290 out of 300

Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
It's Too Funky In Here
Gonna Have A Funky Good Time (Doing It To Death)
Try Me
Get On The Good Foot
Prisoner of Love
Get Up Offa That Thing (Release The Pressure)
Georgia On My Mind
I Got The Feeling
It's A Man's Man's Man's World
Cold Sweat
I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
I Got You (I Feel Good)
Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
Please, Please, Please
Jam (1980)
Body Heat

Track Listing:

Mercy, Mercy
I'll Be Satisfied
Come On In
Can't Stay Away
Can't Fight It Baby
You're Good For Me
Take This Hurt Off Me
Daddy Loves Baby
Come See About Me
You Must Believe In Me
Please Don't Let Me Know
Just Because

Track Listing:

Not On The Outside
I Won't Do Anything
Hurts On Me, Baby
I'm So Lost
Somebody Loves You, Baby
Sunday
Love On A Two-Way Street
Pocketful of Heartbreak
Understanding
You Make Me Feel So Good

LARRY BLACKMON, leader, drums
PAT GRANT, trombone
GWEN GUTHRIE, vocalist
MICHAEL HARRIS, percussion
GREGORY JOHNSON, keyboard
MELVIN WHAY, bass
JAMES WHEELER, alto sax

Track Listing:

I Found You
Keep On Trying
Miss Gigi
Anything You Have In Mind
Something Deep Inside
I've Got To Reclaim You
You Can't Let It Get You Down

SIDE A:

1. Jungle fever
2. A little Spanish
3. Once You've Been In Love
4. It's Easy To Be Lonely
5. It's Easy When You Know How

SIDE B:

1. There You Are
2. An Hour Or Two
3. Tiger, Tiger
4. Summer, Summer
5. Hide And Seek

Track Listing:

The Funky Duck
Lady Madonna
Country Slicker Joe
Orient
Theme From "Valley of The Dolls"
The Look of Love
Sombrero Man
Eleanor Rigby
Honey
Secret Love

Track Listing:

I Can't Stop Dancing
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Do The Choo-Choo
You're Such A Beautiful Child
Monkey Time
Do You Feel It?
I've Been Trying
Jammin' In Houston
Love Will Rain On You
Sometimes I Wonder

The Band:

STONY BROWDER JR., guitar, piano
AUGUST DARNELL, bass
MICKEY SEVILLA, drums
"SUGAR COATED" ANDY HERNANDEZ, vibes
DON ARMANDO BONILLA, percussion

Track Listing:

I'll Play The Fool
La Femme Fatale
Betcha The Love Bug Bitcha
Lemon In The Honey
We Got It Made
Cherchez La Femme
Hard Times
Sour And Sweet
You've Got Something
Sunshower

SIDE ONE:

1. Higher Than High
2. Poontang
3. Life Ain't So Easy
4. Boogie Bump Boogie

SIDE TWO:

1. Help Yourself
2. I'm In The Red Zone
3. Overload
4. I Saw You When You Met Her
5. Ma

SIDE ONE:

1. Nobody But You Babe
2. Something Special About My baby
3. Let The Soul Sounds Play
4. Mark My Word
5.I'm Sorry Baby
6. Skunks, Hogs, And Dogs

SIDE TWO:

1.Along Came A Woman
2. Heaven Will Welcome You
3. Good Lovin' My Middle Name
4. The Price I have To Pay
5. I wish It Were Me

SIDE ONE:

1. I Love My Baby
2. Houston Texas
3. (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
4. Giving Up Dancing
5. Girl You're Too Young
6. Mama Didn't Teach Me That Way

SIDE TWO:

1. Do The Hand Jive
2. My Balloon's Going Up
3. Here I go Again
4. Go For What You Know
5. Green Power
6. Just A Little Closer

1. Can You Feel It
2. Jimmy Joe Lee
3. Amazing love
4. So Rare
5. take A Stand
6. March Across This Land
7. Just Got To Be Myself
8. Take A Little Time To Love You
9. Can You Feel It Pt.2

Curtis Mayfield was probably better known for his hard-hitting funk and protest tracks than for his love songs, but these slow jams from 1983 prove that the man was just as adept in the matters of love and desire.

Track Listing:

1. Hey Baby (Give It All to Me)
2. Still Within Your Heart
3. Dirty Laundry
4. Nobody But You
5. If You Need Me
6. What You Gawn Do?
7. Summer Hot

Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also reveals a rougher, rawer and more immediate side of Sam Cooke that wasn't necessarily unveiled on all of his singles. Cookes elegant, searing voice sets the tone here but it's his skills as a master showman that take it to new heights. His explosive renditions of "Chain Gang," "Twistin' the Night Away" and "Somebody Have Mercy" are just a few of the highlights that contribute to one of the finest sets of raw secular gospel ever documented! Here on 180g Vinyl LP.

Legacy Recordings has gone to great lengths to present this classic album exactly the way it was originally intended, with all the warmth and nuance that only vinyl can offer!

Track Listing:

1. Soul Twist/Introduction
2. Feel It (Don't Fight It)
3. Chain Gang
4. Cupid
5. Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons
6. Twistin' The Night Away
7. Somebody Have Mercy
8. Bring It On Home To Me
9. Nothing Can Change This Love
10. Having A Party

1. If There Is A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
2. The Other Side Of Town
3. Wild And Free
4. The Makings Of You
5. Miss Black America
6. Move On Up
7. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
8. Give It Up

Import

What more could you ask for, two great groups, 11 great songs and classic Motown productions! Contains the super groups' big hit "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and the equally effervescent "I'll Try Something New." The excellent set also features a remake of Marvin Gaye's hit, "Try It Baby," a rousing version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," a silky rendition of "This Guy's in Love With You" and the old Four Tops cut, "Then." Originally released in 1969, this is an LP every Temptations, Diana Ross & The Supremes and Motown fan should have!

Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations Track Listing

1. Try It Baby
2. I Second That Emotion
3. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
4. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
5. This Guy's In Love With You
6. Funky Broadway
7. I'll Try Something New
8. A Place In The Sun
9. Sweet Inspiraton
10. Then
11. The Imposible Dream

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The City’s Greatest Living Ambassador Fuses Blues, Funk and Soul on a Pointed and Poignant Love Letter to Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans!

On the City That Care Forgot, Dr. John delivers an elegantly elegiac homage to his drowned hometown that's at once an incredible collection of songs, possibly his best work of the past two decades, and a bold statement and cultural event. Musically anchored with that legendary gravely drawl and a buoyant riot of swamp-voodoo piano grooves (and aid from a few friends like Eric Clapton) the album's 13 tracks also provide a lyrical reminder that the rawness and divisions exposed by Hurricane Katrina are as fresh as ever. Infused with elements of barrelhouse funk and freewheeling proto-rock, at times Dr. John raises as much hell as he does questions. But his hopeful, if harrowing, songwriting never loses the notion that once we start to address our problems we can heal as a nation. The songs, at a time when the word "change" seems to be everybody's buzzword, are at once a musical return to roots, yet suffused with an unusual urgency. On the loping, blues-inflected "Time For A Change," Dr. John conjures what could be considered the "What's Going On" for a younger generation, as he manages to provide a rollicking good time while holding forth on such issues as the war in Iraq and the current administration. In contrast, the stirring title track is a simple and life-affirming requiem for the victims of Katrina, leading off an album that stands as a sad, searing, sacrilegious and ultimately auspicious statement that promises to stand as one of the most compelling and enduring musical statements of this complex era. Double 180g Vinyl LP in a 350g gloss gatefold sleeve.

“The music is a perfect blend of poignancy and Big Easy boogie, which could be overlooked against the eloquently hardhitting lyrical barrage, but on the likes of the haunted Dream Warrior the aural gumbo is as sublime and vibrant a distillation of the classic New Orleans sound as the Doc’s ever mustered.” - Record Collector “Album Of The Month” August 2008

Dr. John City That Care Forgot Track Listing

1. Keep On Going
2. Time For A Change (featuring Eric Clapton)
3. Promises, Promises (featuring Willie Nelson)
4. You Might Be Surprised
5. Dream Warrior
6. Black Gold
7. We Gettin’ There (featuring Terence Blanchard)
8. Stripped Away (featuring Eric Clapton)
9. Say Whut?
10. My People Need A Second Line (featuring James “12”
Andrews and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews)
11. Land Grab (featuring Terence Blanchard)
12. City That Care Forgot (featuring Eric Clapton and Ani DiFranco)
13. Save Our Wetlands (featuring Terrance Simien)

Vinyl LP Of Only 2000 Copies

A cool Bandy label collection of earlier work by Irma Thomas which includes some of the best tracks from her initial years on the Crescent City scene! Most of the numbers were written by Aaron Neville, with a sound that certainly indicates his influence and Irma's vocals have a crackling quality that's divine, even amidst some of the fuller sweetness of the backings. Titles include "Two Winters Long," "Somebody Told You," "Cry On," "Gone," "Look Up," "I Done Got Over It," "It's Raining" and "Ruler Of My Heart."

"This is superstar Tommy Ellison's first release for Atlanta International Records, and needless to say, We are most pleased to have this great artist on our label.

Tommy sings about life and how Jesus is, and must be, a part of life. about miracles and how they happen... all we have to do is believe and trust God.

Listen to this LP, especially "Grandma's House", and experience a little girls love and her faith that could be an inspiration to all of us." -Wendell Parker, ATL Records

Side One:
1. Closer
2. Grandma's House

Side Two:

1. Medley: Tommy's Greatest Hits
2. Heaven To Me
3. Amazing Grace

1. GRIS-GRIS GUMBO YA YA
2. DANSE KALINDA DA BOOM
3. MAMA ROUX
4. DANSE FAMBEAUX
5. CROKER COURTBULLION
6. JUMP STURDY
7. I WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS

Let Her Dance
Julie
A New Shade of Blue
Only When I Dream
You Kiss Me
Little Annie Lou
I fought The Law
Another Sad and Lonely Night
Saturday Night
Take My Word
Fool of Love
Never To Be Forgotten