Dr. John In The Right Place (1973)

Hallucinogenic gumbo from New Orleans' finest, 1969.

Raw, psychedelic New Orleans funk. Features 'Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya', 'Mama Roux', 'I Walk On Guilded Splinters' and more - classic!

w/ Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Ousley , Ray McKinney and Grassella Oliphant on drums.

Very good deep jazz.

Disco not disco synth pop 83

Amazing, rare, folk-funk from David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash! Seriously deep, coke-fueled West Coast AOR! Recommended! This is also a big, underground cosmic record. You really should own this!

KILLER soulful tune as covered by Idris Muhammed for his LOFT/PARADISE GARAGE ANTHEM!

USA original first pressing 1970

Classic!

Monster funky-jazz-organ from 1968! 'But It's Alright' BIG jazz dance tune!

The Aleem Brothers with Leroy Burgess in 80's electro-funk shocker!

Second album from grime/UK rap star Stormzy. 'Heavy is the Head' features guest spots from Aitch, Burna Boy, Ed Sheeran, Headie One, H.E.R., Tiana Major9 and YEBBA with production from Fred Gibson, Fraser T Smith, T-Minus and more.

Philly 60's soul written and produced by Gamble and Huff, arranged by Bobby Martin and Thom Bell.

The unbelievably deep Rufus Harley - the Roland Kirk of the bagpipes. Listen to him disentangle and deconstruct Mary Poppins to seriously deep leftfield effect. Rare album!

Classic, classic soul jazz latin tinged groovy album featuring 2 killers "Listen Here' and "Sham Time".

Produced by Baker- Harris. Mixed by Tom Moulton.

Class!

Raw, psychedelic New Orleans funk. Features 'Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya', 'Mama Roux', 'I Walk On Guilded Splinters' and more - classic!

Classic mellow soul epics! Features the brilliant "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself".

Brilliant, brilliant album - every track's a winner! Highly recommended!

Heavy, Heavy, Heavy psychedelic funk rock! One of the finest albums recorded on Cadet - Marshall Chess's off-shoot label for Chess Records. Featuring the crack Chicago in-house group; Phil Upchurch, Maurice Jennings, Charles Stepney on organ, Louis Satterfield (later of Earth, Wind and Fire) and Pete Cosey (who went on to work with Miles Davis). Also produced and arranged by the mighty Charles Stepney. Includes "I Just Want To Make Love To You". Essential !

Wow! An absolutely 110% essential compilation from the ever-brilliant BBE camp compiled by New York Disco legend John Morales!!!!

John Morales alongside remix partner Sergio Munzibai have remixed numerous cult and groudbreaking records from the 80's including Class Action' s 'Weekend' , Julia & Company, 'Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)' and Ronnie Dyson's 'All Of Your Face' to name just a few. They fashioned certified pop smashes for Debarge ("Rhythm Of The Night") , Temptations ("Treat Her Like A Lady") and of course one of Jocelyn Brown's biggest tunes and girly anthem 'Somebody Else's Guy'!!! Need we say more?!

The M&M mixes are highly revered by the superstar DJ’s such as Dimitri from Paris, Louis Vega, Danny Krivit etc. The liner notes include interviews with Jocelyn Brown (Inner Life/Nuyorican Soul), Legendary producer Patrick Adams (Salsoul – R Kelly, Sister Sledge and many more).

Another OUTSTANDING compilation from BBE and if you like this one you will love their latest DJ Spinna 'Boogie Back' complation of 80's boogie disco gems!

Vinyl tracklisting is as follows:

A1. Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough Part 1 &2 (JM extended 4AM Mix)

B1 Julia and Company - Breakin' down (Sugar Samba) (JM Extended After-session M&M mix)

B2. Universal Robot Band - Barely Breakin Even (Demo Version)

C1. Tony Adderly - I Ain't Mad At You (JM Extended after-session M&M mix)

D1. La-Rita Gaskin - Never Can Say Goodbye (Demo Version)

D2. Margie Joseph - Move To The Groove (JM After-session M&M mix)

E1. Class Action ft. Chris Wiltshire - Weekend (JM After-session M&M mix)

E2. Universal Robot Band - Wanna Be Your Lover (Demo Version)

F1. Logg - You Got (That Something) (Jm Extended After-session M&M mix)

Another unquestionably ESSENTIAL late-sixties standard-setting soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!

This is truly amazing music that no one should be without!

Original = USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG+

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Backed by The Bar-Kays and featuring epic versions of "Walk On By" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix". Awesome!

"Move You No Mountain" - definitive Loft/Garage jazz funk classic version! Dancers only.

Killer off-kilter disco rap disco-not-disco genius. This is their first and best album and includes the hits "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius Of Love". Essential!

Essential 1980 debut from Athens, Georgia's finest new wave / post-punk experimentalists, remastered and expanded.

Monster double CD pack with a whopping 68-page book accompaniment / Two volumes of seriously heavyweight vinyl gatefold and 8page insert.

Featuring The Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more!

Delta Swamp Rock is an interstate southern road-trip through the United States of America where country, rock and soul met at the crossroads - an exploration of the musical and cultural links between the cities of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville in the 1960s and 70s.

At the start of the 1970s, a new type of music emerged out of the southern states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Southern rock, the creation of young blue-collar white Americans, blended rock, soul, country and blues music together to present a new vision of the south – a post-civil rights southern identity complete with a celebration of the regions natural landscape and its way of life.

The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomised the definitive southern rock groups – a mixture of blues-rock and country with a southern rebelliousness and attitude. Unfortunately both The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were to be struck by tragedy, which would affect the movement’s rise and fall.

The backstory to southern rock is the fact that a number of the people involved in its creation had been central to the production of southern soul music in the 1960s mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, and the small town of Muscle Shoals (population around 10,000) deep within the bible-belt, liquor-free, deeply segregated state of Alabama, creating 100s of R&B hits on an almost daily basis.

Here in Muscle Shoals, with its proximity to Memphis and Nashville, an all-white group of in-house musicians, (famously referred to by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ as the ‘Swampers’), created countless classic soul records for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Clarence Carter and more during the 1960s. 

This album charts the rise and fall of southern rock from its funky swamp roots in southern soul to its phenomenal success in the first-half of the 1970s, including its influence on Nashville’s ‘outlaw’ country and tracing it right back to the arrival of rock and roll in the 1950s - the first meeting of black and white American music at the crossroads.

CD One/Volume one vinyl is tracks 1-13.

CD Two/Volume two vinyl is 14-25

REVIEWS:

"An impeccable collection of Southern Rock" THE GUARDIAN (*****)

"Soul Jazz Records compilations are always worthwhile because of the care and detail they put into these nuggets of musical archaeology. There is not a bad track on Delta Swamp Rock. Southern rock continued the tradition of racial integration through music, that began in Memphis with rock and roll, combining soul, gospel, country and rock to come up with something that was, frequently, groovy in the extreme."  THE TIMES

"An ambitious document of the tension between conservative musical aesthetics and breakout rock ’n’ roll styles that characterised the early 1970s inheritance of blues, soul and Country in the post- psychedelic South." THE WIRE

Seminal deep jazz with 'Tiny Pyramids'. Recorded in Chicago late 50s - a true high point! All-star line-up, essential recording.

Absolutely essential C-L-A-S-S-I-C late-sixties soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!

Aretha Franklin's late-sixties string of albums are simpy brilliant - they are shining exemplars of good soul music and no music fan should be without their joy!

Original USA Vinyl VG- ONLY/Sleeve POOR large tear on front and back

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Another album cut from "Go Deh Right" 1st time released on 7" quality roots with deep dub.

A second killer funky jazz set from Herbie Hancock's offshoot group featuring Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and more. Essential!

Gwen enters the 80's in style with the monster hit "Funky Sensation"! Can you feel it?!

Sublime Frequencies excursion into the Vietnamese rock, pop and soul sound of the late 1960s and early 1970s is finally here!

'Saigon Rock & Soul' delivers the goods that international retro collectors have been searching for in vain for many years - and it delivers beyond belief. Every song is a mini-masterpiece, be it heavy acid-rock psychedelia, horn- and guitar-drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime.

During the 1960s and 1970s, pulp ballads were being recorded by leading crooners of the time who alternated between modern and traditional forms of regional music. When the electric guitar hit the streets of Saigon, Vietnamese renditions of contemporary instrumental trends such as surf-rock, beat and twist soon emerged, followed by some pretty deep soul sounds inspired by Motown radio hits as well as funk grooves brought on by James Brown and his contemporaries. By the mid-1960s, Vietnam had been ravaged by war for years. American G.I.s had become a standard fixture in Saigon, as did many of the cultural artifacts they brought with them. This certainly included the music. The sounds of rock and roll dominated the radio waves, and Saigon nightclubs were teeming with new sounds. Musically, The Shadows and The Ventures soon gave way to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as an enthusiastic set of young Vietnamese rockers signed on to the lifestyle, always eager to hear the latest musical trends the G.I.s would bring in on LP or tape. This era saw the birth of a vibrant rock scene, yet rock music and anything that came close was commonly referred to as "soul" in the Vietnamese genre-listings. Like many cultures in Asia, Vietnamese music is recorded, marketed, listened to and disposed of in a relatively quick manner. This level of advanced ephemera ensures a degree of difficulty when trying to unearth and discover cultural histories. Literally, most of the music heard here has been brought back from the dead. Artists featured include some of Vietnam's most popular at the time: Elvis Phuong, Hung Cuong, Mai Lei Huyen, Le Thu, Thai Thanh, Giao Linh, Mai Lei Huyen and the CBC Band.

The limited edition 2LP vinyl release features 70 minutes of classic original recordings compiled by Mark Gergis housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes.

Recommended!

New on Soul Jazz Records, the second volume of Delta Swamp Rock continues to journey into the heartland of the American south, exploring the musical links between country, rock and soul music in the 1960s and early 1970s.

 Southern rock rose up in the 1970s on the huge commercial success of southern-based groups The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Lynyrd Skynyrd and others. Like the twisted roots of rock and roll, southern rock put country, rock and black music into a melting pot to create a unique sound. This gave rise to a new identity for white southern working-class youth.

The roots of this revolution were to be found in an obscure corner of Alabama, in the sleepy town of Muscle Shoals, where, in the previous decade, a group of white in-house studio musicians together with the greatest rhythm and blues vocalists of the day - Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James and many others - away from the segregated environment found just outside the studio walls.

Delta Swamp Rock 2 contains extensive sleeve-notes in an accompanying deluxe large outsize book housed in double-backed card case, which also includes stunning photographs and new interviews with a number of the featured artists (including Tony Joe White) .

As well as the deluxe slipcase CD edition there is also a similarly deluxe limited edition heavyweight double gatefold vinyl edition complete with full sleeve-notes and super-loud pressing.

This is THE definitive funk-jazz fusion album - truly jaw-droppingly good stuff that instantly set the standard against which other fusion musicians measured themselves!

This is one of those perfect albums that you will want to play from beginning to end, but the most famous tracks are probably the much-sampled awesome fifteen minute long Chameleon and the super-funky version of Watermelon Man!

And what great cover art! They don't make them like this anymore!