The Jimmy Castor Bunch It's Just Begun

Compiles some of his best tunes

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£28

Pink/orange coloured vinyl with glitter sleeve.

New 'glitter' sleeve, orange and pink coloured LP Vinyl.

French pressing

Radical electronic experimentalist, 1976.

'Music Is The Key'. The Glorious soul two-step anthem 'I Love You' featuring Don Blackman. Weldon Irvine's deep funky soulful jazz albums are truly incredible. You need to own them all!

It's got to be...perfect

Sumptuous tropical-flavoured jazz dance vocal classic ! Includes "Would You Believe In Me", "Rashida" and "Love Everlasting".

1956 Calypso

Original UK 10" pressing. Includes old-school Wag Club (remember that?) jazz dancer style 'Mambo de Paree'.

Rare funk jazz rock - original USA vinyl copy

1972 release.

Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be was The Sweet's debut album, released in November 1971 on RCA Records in the UK.

Late Night Feelings is the fifth studio album by British producer Mark Ronson.. long awaited, its time to get your dancing shoes out!

Recorded in Nashville, 1968. USA original vinyl in great condition

Original = USA Vinyl VG+/Sleeve VG+

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Composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin

Mid-70s blue-eyed soul par excellence from the Hall and the Oat.

7"

Massive crossover hit from the American Gospel star Kirk Franklin, marrying Patrice Rushen's classic with R&B and hip hop leanings to create this uplifting, inspiring and infectious feel-good sensation. A true Tony Humphries, Southport and soul collectors favourite finally getting a full single release.

Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, 1981 release.

Classical singer meets jazz directed by Andre Previn

Original = Original UKVinyl VG+/Sleeve VG+

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Are u ready for love? Wicked soulful disco!

Original USA country 1974 in great condition

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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

I've been watching you, the way you move your sexy bodaaaaayyyy. Science-fiction funk genius - one of the best Parliafunkadelic albums.

''Can You Dig It?' is as definitive as it gets, and treats its subject seriously, lovingly and with an attention to detail that makes it a necessary purchase. An exemplary collection that is near perfect.' WIRE MAGAZINE

‘Can You Dig It?’ charts the rise of ‘Black Action Films’ from 1970-75. It comes as a double-CD collection of the stunning music from these films. The vinyl is on two monster loud separate double albums.
The Black Action Films
of the early 1970s gave the Hollywood industry its first African-American cinema – actors, directors, cameramen, editors and writers. These films discussed aspects of the African-American experience in the form of entertainment. Storylines interwove post-civil rights revolution with action stories, many involving pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers or private detectives.

The films also featured the finest funk and soul black music of the time as stars such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Willie Hutch and Roy Ayers produced some of their finest work, with film budgets allowing for the addition of huge orchestral arrangements by jazz legends such as Quincy Jones, Johnny Pate and JJ Johnson. In the early 1970s, Black Action Films exploded into the cinema with three extremely successful films – ‘Shaft’, ‘Super Fly’ and ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song’. The most profound statement of these films was their actual existence – black actors and black directors entering the previously closed Hollywood film industry. Black Action Films were a representation of politically everything that had gone before and stylistically of everything that was current. Civil rights, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Black Power, Black Panthers, Vietnam sit alongside the criminal worlds of policemen, private investigators, bail bondsmen and the criminals, drug dealers, pimps and hustlers that they parole. ‘Can U Dig It?’ brings you everything you always wanted to know about black action films. This is an essential Soul Jazz Records release!

VOLUME ONE OF VINYL is TRACKS 1-16
VOLUME TWO OF VINYL is TRACKS 17-34

FEATURE REVIEW

The INDEPENDENT

Essential funk album, includes the classic "Blow Your Head" ! As serious as it gets - "Damn Right", 'Blow Your Head", "Same Beat", "Watergate' and more. Every home should have this album.

Great album, full of classics, from the breaks "Kissing My Love" and "Use Me" to the ballads "Let Me In Your Life" and "Lean On Me". CD contains two bonus live tracks from the classic Carnegie Hall concert in 1973.

All-time seminal album from Marlena Shaw recorded for Chess in 1969, arranged and produced by the great Charles Stepney and Richard Evans, featuring the 100% essential tunes 'Woman of The Ghetto', 'California Soul' and much more.

Classic funky jazz / rare groove album

Classic rare groove with the seminal title tune.

Heavy, heavy, heavy latin funk and jazz!!!! This is a serious album. "Smoke", "There You Go", "Mama Guela", "Viva Tirado" , "Soul Makossa" are as good as it gets - these tunes rock! ESSENTIAL ALBUM

Includes the killer funk track "Fug"!

Killer soul jazz, Riverside 1964 w/ Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walkman, Reggie Workman and Art Blakey. Hardcore!

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 !

Bona-fide, stone cold masterpieces are hard to come by, but this is the masterpiece of all masterpieces. Absolutely phenomenal from beginning to end, funny, witty, if you don't like this you're insane. Just insane...

Essential funky folk album!

Brilliant! You Need this!

Oh man, this is so heavy. The super-deep 'Move Your Hand' along with twisted vocals and hypnotic, incessant rhythm is one of the heaviest sounds of all played loud in a club. Bad, bad tune! Tripped out organ funk of the highest level.

It's a classic ...

Reissue alert, folks! Killer album debut release from futuristic, synth-soul sensation Anderson .Paak! 

Rare groove classic from Aretha's soulful sibling. Includes her seminal version of "Light My Fire"!

Blue Note, 68. Saxophonist Donaldson joined by Blue Mitchell, George Benson, Lonnie Smith and Leo Smith (Idris Muhammad). Heavyweight soul jazz.

Original= Blue and white label Liberty Blue Note first pressing

Classic early P-Funk with Parliament on the cusp of cosmicfunky greatness. Featuring 'Testify' and the wicked title track.