Part of a trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, from the sprawling Midwest burg’s storied Cavern, Damon and Forte concerns. Bump and the Soul Stompers’...
Arriving as the hippy movement was discovering its peaceful easy 1970s feelings, Sandy Harless’s ‘Songs’ LP is Chillicothe, Ohio’s lone contribution...
Seven fretboard fantasias from California’s mysterious mail order mystic.1973’s ‘Guitar Grimoire’ is a collection of reverberant and original charms...
California mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica...
A rough and rugged collection of dirty old classics that have inspired swarms of killer beats. A head nod to the sounds of Shaolin, the twelve chambers...
Following in the wake of baroque chart toppers by the Zombies, Beatles, and the Left Banke, a dandier approach to garage rock flowered in the back half...
The previously unissued soundtrack to the 1964 noir, You’re Not From A round Here, discovered after 55 years in the Louis Wayne Moody archive. A hobo’s...
From 1967-1980, Kansas City’s Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement bee-hivery from The Ray-Ons and Four Darlings,...
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal - and his appropriately named Shoestring...
After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got...
There was one irrepressible Chicago club act that refused to be replaced by any DJ’s sound system. Maxx Traxx (and Third Rail before them) were a scene...
Northern soul floor fillers of the Eccentric variety. 17 gems from across the Numeroverse, this album keeps the faith for both newcomers and veterans alike....
After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated...
"After receiving regional praise for his 1976 debut Abrabo, Dan Boadi set his sights on leaving Ghana and bringing his highlife sensibilities to an American...
"Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines...
Classic northern soul gem from the Wigan Casino days, originally broadcast under the name Yvonne Daniels. Originals of this one are scarcely seen, so another...
Killer New Orleans Funk rarity!
Inell Young's searing vocal performance backed by the unbelievably funky James Black's seriously awesome second-line...