Tag: Soul
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Baby Rose, Through and Through, 2023 on Secretly Canadian
Debut album on Secretly Canadian for Baby Rose (aka Jasmine Rose Wilson) and her second album. Sort of a psychelic soul throwback – her voice gets lots of comparisons to Nina Simone but as though Simone was fronting a contemporary R&B group. It’s not that she’s imitating or calling back to an older form –…
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Freddie Roach, Brown Sugar, 1964 on Blue Note
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Joe Henderson, Eddie Wright, and Clarence Johnston joining Freddie Roach. As Roach says in the liner notes, describing folks dancing: “I watched that multitude of people pulsing, boiling, melting, looking for all the world like sweet fudge. I thought this is my favorite dessert – Brown Sugar. If only…
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Otis Redding, The Immortal Otis Redding, 1968 on ATCO
The second of a number of posthumous releases that came after Redding died in December 1967 – recordings made during the spring, summer and fall of 1967. Atlantic owned the rights to Redding’s catalog and all unreleased masters, so issued these albums under the ATCO label in the US. Personnel not credited on the release,…
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Aretha Franklin, Aretha Arrives, 1967 on Columbia
Aretha’s 11th album and second for Atlantic – the follow up to I Never Loved a Man. Includings covers of the Rolling Stone’s “Satisfaction” and the ? and the Mysterian’s “96 Tears” as well as “You Are My Sunshine” and “That’s Life.” Sometimes gets dismissed as the weak follow up to her Atlantic debut, but…
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Wilson Pickett, Hey Jude, 1969 on Atlantic
Recorded at Fame studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama with a band that included Duane Allman as well as Jerry Jemmott and Roger Hawkins. It’s a classic late 60s Atlantic record with tinge of what would become southern rock. In addition to the title Beatles cover, there’s also “Born to Be Wild” and songs by Hayes/Porter…
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Charles Bradley, Victim of Love, 2013 on Dunham / Daptone.
Charles Bradley is a great story – picked out of relative obscurity into a music career in his early 50s. Sadly he died (of stomach cancer) in 2017. He worked as a Chef in Bar Harbor, Maine, as well as Seattle and Alaska, before becoming something of a James Brown impersonator (under the name Black…
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Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, 1967 on Atlantic
My copy is a 2022 reissue by Vinyl Me, Please as a part of their Essentials track. It was actually Franklin’s tenth studio album but her first release on Atlantic. Imagine having Respect as the lead off track on your debut album at a new label? Not that the nine albums at Columbia aren’t good…
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Sly and the Family Stone, Stand!, 1969 on Epic
If you find a Sly and the Family Stone record in good shape and don’t already have it, just buy it. This is their fourth album, and has gone at least triple platinum – including Stand!, I Want to Take You Higher, Everyday People, and You Can Make It If You Try. Written and produced…
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Roberta Flack, Quiet Fire, 1971 on Atlantic
Flack’s third album, with “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” as the hit single, but also including covers of Bridge Over Troubled Water and To Love Somebody (among others). Produced by Joel Dorn. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2021, with listening notes by H. Zahra Caldwell, newly cut laquers by Ryan…
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James Brown, James Brown Sings Out of Sight, 1968 on Smash Records.
James Brown, James Brown Sings Out of Sight, 1968 on Smash Records. Originally released in 1965 as just Out of Sight, with different cover art.
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James Brown, James Brown ‘Live’ at the Apollo, 1963 on King Records.
James Brown, James Brown ‘Live’ at the Apollo, 1963 on King Records. My copy is a 1966 pressing. The B side is mostly on long medley to get in a lot of hits.
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Lou Rawls and Les McCann Ltd., Stormy Monday, 1962 on Capitol.
Lou Rawls and Les McCann Ltd., Stormy Monday, 1962 on Capitol. Maybe ought to be “Lou Rawls Sings and Les McCann Ltd Plays Stormy Monday, with Leroy Vinnegar and Ron Jefferson.” Gem of a find – via Mystery Train in Gloucester. Soul / Jazz / R&B.
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Durand Jones & The Indications, Private Space, 2021 on Dead Oceans
Durand Jones & The Indications, Private Space, 2021 on Dead Oceans Via Secretly Society for August 2021 Lovely retro soul for the times
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring Theodore Pendergrass, To Be True, 1975 on Philadelphia International Records.
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Featuring Theodore Pendergrass, To Be True, 1975 on Philadelphia International Records. Beautiful mid-seventies Philly soul from Teddy Pendergrass backed by MFSB via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters, 1973 on Columbia.
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters, 1973 on Columbia. (My copy is from the Vinyl Me, Please Story of Herbie Hancock anthology) What can you say about Head Hunters? One of the best selling Jazz records of all time. Hancock melds funk, soul, r&b, and early synths with a solid jazz foundation. A must have for any…
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Isaac Hayes, Tough Guys, 1974 on Enterprise.
Isaac Hayes, Tough Guys, 1974 on Enterprise. Soundtrack from the blaxploitation film Three Tough Guys, which Hayes made his acting debut in along with Lino Ventura and Fred Williamson My copy is the @vinylmeplease 2021 reissue – great pressing and packaging. Strings by thr Memphis Symphony Orechestra, rhythm section The Movement (aka The Isaac Hayes…
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Isaac Hayes, Chocolate Chip, 1975 on ABC Records / Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes, Chocolate Chip, 1975 on ABC Records / Hot Buttered Soul Promo copy on black and white labels but with red HBS logo Love Isaac Hayes mid seventies soul Via Antiques on Elm, Manchester NH
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Aretha Franklin, Soul ’69, 1969 on Atlantic.
Aretha Franklin, Soul ’69, 1969 on Atlantic. From the liner notes by Ritchie Yorke : “I find it impossible to select any especially effective cuts; each is constructed of superb musical finery, compassionate arrangements and wilting vocals. Each, by itself, is a monumental work of art” Some of these are well known but a few…