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A lost piece of QB history, PHD was the duo of Poet and Hot Day Dante. Like Mobb Deep who'd make a much bigger impact shortly after these guys debuted, PHD peddle in your face east coast gangster-isms. A hard to find album, with mostly raw funky beats and even a nod to the old school with the big beat sounding "Snakes In The Grass" and the instrumental cut up "I'm Hot". 12 tracks in all, including "I'm Flippn'", "On The Dark Side", "Life On The Edge", "Set It Off" and "Do It Any Way You Wanna".

Really wonderful stuff – a collection of totally unique grooves that won't cross over with any of your other African funk compilations! The focus here is on jazz, not funk or soul – and the set features a wealth of great tracks pulled from obscure South African records of the late 70s and early 80s. Funky fusion is definitely in command here – and the overall feel of the tracks is similar to some of the best European funky fusion of the 70s, fused with elements of African percussion and instrumentation – creating a true crossover of styles that crackles with a freshness that will have you coming back to this one again and again! Most tracks are instrumental – and the grooves here are a lot more complicated than on your average James Brown-inspired African funk tracks, a mix of strident modal modes, and other choppier funkier riff-heavy tunes. Plus, the whole thing's put together with the righteous intelligence of all the other Counterpoint titles – with great notes, incredible sound, and an approach that will easily take you to a whole new musical world! Titles include "I Remember You" by Mike Makahalemele, "Half N Half" by Zacks Nkosi, "Chapita" by Dick Khoza, "Lament" by Movement In The City, "Blues For Yusef" by Lionel Pillay, "The Way It Used To Be" by Pacific Express, and "La I La I La" by George Lee Larnyoh.

Groovy 20 track "best of" CD compiling tracks from his Atlantic recordings of the late 60's and early 70's, with loads of his usual cool hipster jazz vocals and New Orleans piano playing. Cuts include "Seventh Son", "Swingin' Machine", "Your Mind Is On Vacation", "Your Molecular Structure", "Night Club", "That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch", "If You're Goin' To The City", and lots lots more!

An incredible batch of hillbilly boogie tunes from the 50s, and a stray couple of honky tonk and outlaw jukebox gems from the 60s & 70s – a fantastic sampler of rockabilly and country nuggets put together by the saints at Bear Family – at an incredible price, to boot! The Bear Family label has been exhaustively compiling this kind of thing for decades now, God bless 'em, and they're celebrating their 33rd Anniversary with a series of CDs featuring 33 tunes for an unbelievably friendly price. A real gift to all of us who've shelled out hundreds of dollars for those completist Bear Family box sets over the years! Features fly-by-night obscurities, great stuff from cult heroes, rare ones by legends, and each and every track is a jewel. Includes an uptempo Cash style reading of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by Johnny Seay, the jarring "Border City Call Girl" by Ben Hewitt, "Big Family Trouble" by Skeets McDonald, "The Girl Can't Help It" by Rusty York, "The Fool" by Sanford Clark, "Houn' Dog" by Homer & Jethro, "All I Can Do Is Cry" by Johnny Bond, "Don't Stop Now" by Roy Hall, "Juke Joint Boogie" by Freddie Hart, "First Class Second Class Woman" by Eddie Cletro, "Candy & Women" by Bill Haley and tons more!