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Como Now - The Voices of Panola Co., Mississippi (Daptone 2008)
Deep in the heart of Panola County, Mississippi lies Como, a small rural town where children and grown folks alike have been living and breathing gospel for as long as they can remember. In the summer of 2006, Daptone Records placed a small ad in local papers and on the radio inviting singers to come down to Mt. Mariah Church to record their songs. The result is COMO NOW, a stirring collection of traditional and original a cappella gospel from the voices of Panola County’s own families.
It may seem like a leap for Daptone Records to be releasing an album of a cappella gospel music. Daptone has earned a reputation for creating and proliferating the purest of today’s soul and funk music. Why gospel? And why without any instrumentation? If you put aside the analytical categories of the music critic for a moment, and just listen to the record, the answer becomes simple and clear: this is soulful music.
“When Michael Reilly came to me with his first recordings of the Como Mamas, I remember hearing it and being blown away. Though I’ve been into soul music for a very long time, it has only been in the past few years that I really got deeper into gospel music…and the line from soul to gospel eventually became much clearer to me. Less of an academic lineage than a visceral feeling that I started to get from listening to old records by the Soul Stirrers and the Highway Q.C.’s. Dorothy Love Coates, the Mighty Pilgrim Travelers, The Blind Boys, The Violinaires. They were the same sounds, the same feeling, as I got listening to James Brown, Tina Turner, Lee Fields when they were really wailing. Otis Redding when he was really pleading. Al Green when he was really moaning. Sounds that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. The recordings Michael played me gave me the same feeling.”
Named one of Austin, Texas' 'Best Live Acts' by the Austin Chronicle, Brownout perform the nastiest Latin funk music around today. This band of "party rocking legends" was resurrected from the same tequila soaked border town explosion that originated the highly acclaimed Latin powerhouse Grupo Fantasma. Fresh from the worldwide release of their first 7" single on the UK's prestigious Freestyle Records, the band has made waves internationally amongst DJ's, tastemakers and good music fans alike. Brownout is an 8 piece ensemble complete with 2 guitars, bass, no nonsense Latin percussion and the "Best Horn Section" 2 years in a row at the Austin Music Awards. Throwback but not copycat retro, their music is timeless and honest, keeping the spirit of 70s afro-latin and funk music alive while honoring their South Texas roots. "Homenaje," Spanish for homage, is the debut album release from the Grupo Fantasma side-project (who recently supported none other than Prince on his recent UK tour) and gives more than a mere nod to late '70s Latin-funk acts like Joe Bataan and Santana. From the Fela Kuti style Afro-beat of "Con El Brownout" and "Chema's Contraband" to the smoldering neo-soul of "You Already Are" and the incendiary cover of Manu Dibango’s “African Battle”, the nearly all-instrumental album avoids stagnation by switching gears rapidly between tracks. "Homenaje" vacillates between the languid groove of songs such as "They Should Know," which sounds like a forgotten track from the Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head" and powerful crowd-movers like the CD's title track. Built upon a familiar piano montuno and the deft percussion of drummer Johnny Lopez and conga player Sweet Lou, "Homenaje" echoes the funkiest material of the output of the Fania label in the 70s and the gorgeous "You Already Are" channels Carlos Santana into a brooding funk masterpeice. Melding these influences into an original diasporic sound is the album's triumph.
Tracklist:
01.) Brown Wind And Fire 02.) Homenage 03.) Laredo 77 04.) African Battle 05.) Con El Brownout No Se Juega 06.) Latin Asscape 07.) Barretta 08.) Chema's Contraband 09.) They Don't Know 10.) The Sexican 11.) El Narco 12.) You Already Are 13.) Chafa Khan
The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and The Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking will be released on Dunham Records, Brenneck’s new imprint of Daptone Records, a joint venture devoted to bringing the Menahan Street sound from Brenneck’s bedroom out into the world. The album is marked by eerily quirky arrangements, featuring vibes, horns, piano, organ, percussion and even a strange bling sound that Brenneck creates by tuning and plucking the strings of his guitar on the wrong side of the bridge. However, it is not the textures themselves that make the new sound of Menahan Street so exciting, but rather the way the sounds are incorporated into the heavy rhythms and bold melodies of the compositions.
The Truth Behind The Philli Legend (Funkadelphia 2008)
Precise details as to the origins of these 16 instrumental tracks are thin on the ground. None of them are actually credited to MFSB (although the CD as a whole is), and while a few are noted as having been recorded in 1968, 1969, or 1973, over half the cuts are undated. The liner notes -- which actually only consist of five extended quotes from figures involved with MFSB -- aren't much help, although they do scatter hints that these cuts represent MFSB recording under pseudonyms. So an educated guess would presume that these tracks -- credited to no less than twelve separate artists, including such colorful names as Electric Indian (whose "Keem-O-Sabe," a Top Twenty hit in 1969, is the only well known item here), French Connection, Race Street Chinatown Band, and Brothers of Hope, and such mundane handles as Sam Reed Band -- are in fact MFSB recording under different names in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some celebrated figures are involved in the production and songwriting, including Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Len Barry, but the specifics of their involvement aren't fully spelled out. But while the lack of background information is frustrating, the music itself is pretty cool. This is indeed the sound of Philadelphia soul turning into funk, but rawer and closer to the bone than most of the famous recordings on which MFSB were the backing players (and certainly rawer than MFSB's own hit recordings). All of the instrumental elements of the Philly soul sound are here: tight grooves, funky guitars, neat riffs, and overlays of jazzy vibraphones. It sounds earthier than much famous Philly soul of the era, though, in part because most of the tracks aren't decorated with horns or soothing strings, putting the most cutting ingredients in relief. That's particularly true of some of the guitar work, which sometimes goes into nifty wah-wah, and at others (especially on Hidden Cost's "Bo Did It") even verges on what sounds like Cream/Yardbirds-influenced hard rock lines. It's true that much of this does sound like promising backing tracks waiting for vocal overdubs, and that none of them (except "Keem-O-Sabe") particularly sound like they're instrumental-only hits waiting to happen. Yet this incompleteness is also part of what makes this obscure release interesting, allowing us to dig the root of the Philly sound without the sweeteners in a pretty unadulterated state. Much of it's indeed funky as a, well, mutha, and no doubt it will eventually be plundered by twenty-first century samplers looking for something that few competitors are even aware exist.
Tracklist:
01.) Interpretations - Trippin' 02.) Brothers Of Hope - Nickol Nickol 03.) Interpretations - Jason Pew Mosso (Part Two) 04.) Hidden Cost - Bo Did It (Long Version) 05.) Hidden Cost - Vibrations (Long Version) 06.) Daley Diggers - I Can Dig It 07.) Sam Reed Band - Ambassador'S Theme 08.) Sam Reed Band - Jimmy Bishop Theme 09.) Alliance - Cupid'S Holding 10.) Cupit - Squeeze Your Knees 11.) Race Street Chinatown Band - Egg Foo Wa Wa 12.) Electric Indian - Keem O Sabe 13.) French Connection - Monte Carlo 14.) Electric Indian - My Cherie Amour 15.) Pat & The Blenders - Just Because (Instrumental) 16.) Ando Orchestra - Ando'S Theme
How many times have you been at a swinging soul party and overheard someone say, "I'd really love to taste some of those soulful and delicious Daptone cuts that are only available on 45's, but I don't have a record player"? I know what you're thinking: if only I had a dime for every time! Well now a dime (or two) is all it will cost your phonographically impaired friends to download one of these exclusive cuts to play on their own MP5-BOX. You heard right, the considerate folks at Daptone have compiled the entirety of their infamous 45' catalog onto a series of download only albums. Finally, you too can own tracks that have previously only been available to DJ's and vinyl junkies.
Tracklist:
1.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Got A Thing On My Mind, Pt. 1
2.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Got A Thing On My Mind, Pt. 2
3.) Lee Fields & the Dap-Kings - Give Me A Chance, Pt. 1
4.) Lee Fields & the Dap-Kings - Give Me A Chance, Pt. 2
5.) The Sugarman 3 - Funky So-and-So, Pt.1
6.) The Sugarman 3 - Funky So-and-So, Pt. 2
7.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Make It Good To Me
8.) The Dap-Kings - Casella Walk
9.) Charles Bradley and Sugarman & Co. - Take It As It Come Pt. 1
10.) Charles Bradley and Sugarman & Co. - Take it… Pt. 2
11.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Got To Be The Way It Is, Pt.2
12.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Got To Be The Way It Is, Pt.2
13.) Naomi Davis - Promised Land, Pt. 1
14.) The Sugarman 3 - Promised Land (Instrumental)
15.) The Company - La Culebra, Pt. 1
16.) The Company - La Culebra, Pt. 2
17.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - What Have You Done For Me Lately? Pt. 1
18.) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - What Have You Done For Me Lately? Pt. 2
You’ve been licking ‘round the bottom of the Soul bowl lately, scrounging for every bit and morsel you can find. And now this! Our second volume of Daptone cuts that have never been digitized before. All the 45 only jams that your hipper friends with record players have been so smarmy about for so long. I’m sure you would have bought them on vinyl if your apartment wasn’t so small, right? Or maybe you already did, but want these handy digital ones so you can listen to them on your telephone when you’re not near enough to your dear old turntable. Either way, I’m sure you’ll enjoy Volume two of Daptone’s 7” Singles Collection. And don’t forget, singles are for couples too!
Tracklist:
1.) The Matador - The Mighty Imperials
2.) Now That I’m Gone - Charles Bradley & The Bullets
3.) Can’t Stop Thinking About You - Charles Bradley
4.) Could Have Been - Lee Fields
5.) You Don’t Know What You Mean (To a Lover Like Me) - Lee Fields & The Sugarman 3
6.) How Long Do I Have To Wait For You (Instrumental) - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
7.) This Love Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us - Charles Bradley & The Bullets
8.) (She’s Got) Twilight Eyes - Charles Bradley & The Bullets
9.) I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Is In - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
The seven-person all-star collective known as Lettuce has been around since 1992, with its members branching off into successful standalone projects (Soulive, Rustic Overtones, et al), but never straying far from the project that started it all. "Rage", the band's third album, sees the collective reaching back to pay homage to the funk gods (EWF, James Brown, Tower of Power, the Meters, P-Funk, etc), while retaining the band's meticulous hip-hop tinged phrasing, melody and progressions. The compositions all follow a similar formula: riffs and breakbeats setting up the solos, bridges and/or hooks, and though there are times when the songs traverse the borders of funk-by-numbers monotony, the band's chemistry shines through time and again as a saving grace. One can tell the boys are having fun and this is proved true every time a glimmer of their monstrous theory knowledge and improv talent surfaces. But, this project is not meant to clone those aspects so strongly established in Lettuce's first two albums. "Rage" was made to groove in the pocket, and it does. Fiercely.
01.) Blast Off 02.) Sam Huffs Flying Raging Machine 03.) Move On Up feat. Dwele 04.) King Of The Burgs 05.) Need To Understand 06.) The Last Suppit 07.) Dizzer 08.) Makin My Way Back Home 09.) Salute 10.) Speake E.Z. 11.) Express Yourself 12.) Relax 13.) By Any Shmeeans Necessary 14.) Mr. Yance
BARRY WHITE! BARRY, freakin' WHITE! you are either on his side, or or Isaac Hayes' side. Either way - you win :D *R.I.P. Jhon Shaft
Born in Galveston, TX, Barry White grew up singing gospel songs with his mother and taught himself to play piano. White made his recording debut at the tender age of 11, playing piano on Jesse Belvin's "Goodnight My Love." starting slowly, for a meager 40$ a week, White started releasing music, while focousing on other tasks (he did A&R at the time). slowly his fame, and fortune grew. His first album, was almost never released, white thought it was not worth it, but he was convinced otherwise. it made the number one pop charts. Over the next 5 years, he released many albums (Stone Gone and Let The Music Play are a few of those).
the next 20+ years were pent releasing some music, and preforming a lot.
White, who suffered from hypertension and chronic high blood pressure, was hospitalized for kidney failure in September of 2002. He was undergoing dialysis treatment, but the combination of illnesses proved too much and he died July 4, 2003 at a West Hollywood hospital. By the time of his death, Barry White had achieved a near-universal acclaim and popularity that few artists achieve and even fewer within their own lifetime.
01. Standing in the Shadows of Love 02. Bring Back My Yesterday 03. I've Found Someone 04. I've Got So Much to Give 05. I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby
1. Girl It's True, Yes I'll Always Love You 2. Honey Please, Can't You See 3. You're My Baby 4. Hard To Believe That I Found You 5. Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up
1. Mellow Mood (Pt. I) 2. You're The First, The Last, My Everthing 3. I Can't Believe You Love Me 4. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe 5. Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It 6. I Love You More Than Anything (In This World Girl) 7. Mellow Mood (Pt. II)
1. Somebody's Gonna Off The Man 2. So Nice To Hear 3. Alive And Well 4. Find The Man Bros. 5. You Gotta Case 6. Killer's Lullaby 7. Theme From Together Brothers 8. Getaway 9. People Of Tomorrow Are The Children Of Today - (TRUE instrumental) 10. Somebody's Gonna Off The Man - (TRUE instrumental) 11. Rip, The 12. Stick Up 13. Dreamin' 14. Killer's Back 15. Do Drop In 16. Killer Don't Do It 17. Here Comes The Man 18. Dream On 19. Honey, Please Can't Ya See 20. Can't Seem To Find Him 21. People Of Tomorrow Are The Children Of Today http://w14.easy-share.com/1699518358.html http://w14.easy-share.com/1699518324.html
White Gold (1974)
01. Berry's Love I. 02. Satin Soul 03. Always Thinking of You 04. Power of Love 05. Spanish Lei 06. You Make Me Feel Like This 07. Only You Can Make Me Blue 08. Dreaming09. Just Living It Up 10. Just Like a Baby 11. Berry's Love II. http://www.mediafire.com/?1jqqffcrhzy
White Rhapsody (1974)
01 - Barry's Theme 02 - Rhapsody in White 03 - Midnight and You 04 - I Feel Love Coming On 05 - Baby Blues 06 - Don't Take It Away from Me 07 - What a Groove 08 - Love's Theme http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?65txy327zbf
Just Another Way To Say I Love You (1974)
01. Heavenly, That's What You Are To Me 02. I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To 03. All Because Of You 04. Love Serenade I. 05. What Am I Gonna Do With You 06. Let Me Live My Life Lovin' You Babe 07. Love Serenade II.
01. I Don't Know Where Love Has Gone 02. If You Know, Won't You Tell Me 03. I'm So Blue And You Are Too 04. Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together 05. You See The Trouble With Me 06. Let The Music Play
01. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long 02. Your Love-So Good I Can Taste It 03. I'm Qualified To Satisfy You 04. I Wanna Lay Down With You Baby 05. Now I'm Gonna Make Love To You
01. Playing Your Game, Baby 02. It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me 03. You're So Good You're Bad 04. Never Thought I'd Fall in Love With You 05. You Turned My Whole World Around 06. Oh What a Night for Dancing 07. Of All The Guys In The World
01. Look At Her 02. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness 03. Sha la la Means I Love You 04. September When I First Met You 05. It's Only Love Doing Its Thing 06. Just the Way You Are 07. Early Years
01. I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing 02. Girl, What's Your Name 03. Once upon a Time (You Were A Friend Of Mine) 04. Oh Me, Oh My, (I'm Such a Lucky Guy) 05. I Can't Leave You Alone06. Call Me, Baby 07. How Did You Know It Was Me
01. Our Theme I 02. I Want You 03. You're The Only One For Me 04. This Love 05. The Better Love Is (The Worse It Is When It's Over) 06. You 07. We Can't Let Go Of Love 08. You Make My Life Easy Livin' 09. Didn't We Make It Happen Baby 10. Our Theme II
01. Beware 02. Relax to the Max 03. Let Me in and Let's Begin With Love 04. Your Love, Your Love 05. Tell Me Who Do You Love 06. Rio De Janeiro 07. You're My High08. Oooo....Ahhh.... 09. I Won't Settle For Less Than The Best (For You Baby) 10. Louie Louie
01. Change 02. Turnin' On, Tunin' In (To Your Love) 03. Let's Make Tonight (An Evening To Remember) 04. Don't Tell Me About Heartaches 05. Passion 06. I've Got That Love Fever 07. I Like You, You Like Me 08. It's All About Love
01. Good Dancin' Music 02. As Time Goes By 03. Sho You Right. 04. For Your Love (I'll Do Most Anything) 05. There's A Place (Where Love Never Ends) 06. I'm Ready For Love 07. Love Is In Your Eyes 08. Share 09. Who's The Fool 10. The Right Night
01. Responsible 02. Super Lover 03. L.A. My Kinda Place 04. Follow That and See (Where It Leads Y'all) 05. When Will I See You Again 06. I Wanna Do It Good to Ya 07. It's Getting Harder All the Time 08. Don't Let Go 09. Loves Interluda-Goodnight My Love
01. Let's Get Busy. 02. Love Is Good With You 03. For Real Chill. 04. Break It Down With You 05. Volare 06. Put Me in Your Mix 07. Who You Giving Your Love To 08. Love Will Find Us 09. We're Gonna Have It All 10. Dark and Lovely (You over There)
01. I've Got the Whole World to Hold Me Up. 02. Your Heart and Soul 03. Under the Influence of Love 04. All in the Run of Love 05. Out of the Shadows of Love . 06. Long Black Veil .m 07. Come on in Love 08. Where Can I Turn To 09. I Owe It All to You 10. Fragile, Handle with Care 11. My Buddy 12. I've Got the Whole World to Hold Me Up (Big Man Remix)
01. Practice What You Preach 02. There It Is 03. I Only Want to Be With You 04. The Time Is Right 05. Baby's Home 06. Come On 07. Love Is the Icon 08. Sexy Undercover 09. Don't You Want to Know 10. Whatever We Had, We Had
1. You're My First, My Last, My Everything 2. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe 3. Let The Music Play 4. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long 5. I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To 6. Sho'be Right 7. What Am I Gonna Do With You 8. Come On 9. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Baby 10. Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up 11. Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together 12. Just The Way You Are 13. Dark & Lovely (You Over There) (Radio Edit) 14. You See The Trouble With Me 15. It's Esctasy When You Lay Down Next To Me 16. Right Night 17. Love's Theme 18. Let The Music Play (Funkstar's Club Deluxe Mix)
Disc 1/2 1. Barry White - Out Of The Shadows Of Love 2:46 2. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is 3:06 3. Barry White - Under The Influence Of Love 3:04 4. Barry White - Come On In Love 3:25 5. Curtis Mayfield - Do Be Down 3:38 6. Barry White - Your Heart And Soul 3:27 7. Barry White - All In The Run Of One Day 2:46 8. Lou Rawls - Lady Love 4:07 9. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street 3:50 10.Bobby Womack - Nobody Wants You When You're 2:54 Down And Out 11.Wilson Pickett - If You Need Me 2:33 12.Percy Sledge - Try A Little Tenderness 3:50
Gil Scott-Heron is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer. He is associated with African American militant activism, and is best known for his poem and song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".
Born in Chicago in 1949, Scott-Heron had a difficult, itinerant childhood. After his parents divorced he was sent to live with his grandmother in Lincoln, Tennessee. A civil rights campaigner, she introduced him to both music and literature. But the young Scott-Heron endured constant racial abuse as one of only three black children picked to integrate an elementary school in nearby Jackson. Returning to New York to live with his mother, he got a different perspective on oppression in the housing projects of the Bronx.
But he was too bright to settle for less. After publishing an acclaimed novel, The Vulture, at the age of 19, he won a place at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, the alma mater of his hero, black poet Langston Hughes. He dropped out after a year to pursue a career in poetry. In 1970 producer Bob Thiele convinced him to set his first collection, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, to music; the album's conversational style and funky percussion earned Scott-Heron the tag of "the godfather of rap". He once joked, with typical insouciance: "I ain't saying I didn't invent rapping. I just cannot recall the circumstances."
Classic protest songs such as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and Whitey On the Moon were fuelled by a keen, angry intelligence. His back catalogue also boasts several articulate dissections of an addict's mindset, including The Bottle and Angel Dust. On 1971's Home Is Where the Hatred Is, he sang, "You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it, God but did you ever try to turn your sick soul inside out so that the world can watch you die?" It has never been clearly established when Scott-Heron became addicted to cocaine; looking back on his works about drugs, it seems the line between empathy and autobiography was blurred throughout his career. Even in recent years, he has used his ready wit to fudge the issue of his drug use.
in my opinion, Gil Scott Heron is THE MOST important political musician of the last 40 years.
he made it happen.
he invented it.
respect!
SMALL TALK AT 125th STREET & LENNOX (1970)
1- Intro
2- Omen
3- Brother
4- Comment #1
5- Sm
6- The Revolution will not be televised 7- all Talk At 125th And Lenox
8- The Subject Was Faggots
9- Evolution (And Flashback)
10- Plastic Pattern People
11- Whitey On The Moon
12- The Vulture
13- Enough
14- Paint it black
15- Everyday
02 Rivers of My Fathers
03 A Very Precious Time
04 Back Home
05 The Bottle
06 Song for Bobby Smith
07 Your Daddy Loves You
08 H2O Gate Blues
09 Peace Go With You, Brother (As-Salaam-Alaikum)
10 Winter in America [Live][_]
11 Song for Bobby Smith [Alternate Take][_] 12 Your Daddy Loves You [Live][_]
13 The Bottle_Guan Guanco [Live][_]
01 Offering 02 The Liberation Song (Red, Black and Green) 03 Must Be Something
04 Ain't No Such Thing as Superman 05 Pardon Our Analysis (We Beg Your Pardon) 06 Guerilla
07 Winter in America 08 Western Sunrise 09 Alluswe
01 Angel Dust
02 Madison Avenue
03 Cane
04 Third World Revolution 05 Better Days Ahead 06 Three Miles Down 07 Angola, Louisiana 08 Show Bizness 09 Prayer for Everybody_To Be Free
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