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Rare 80s soul from Al Broomfield -- a nice little modern soul set with lots of groovy keys and soulful vocals from Broomfield! Broomfield is a sweetly grooving set with the bubbling synthy touches of the era in full force, with a warmth and genuine soul that keeps it fresh years later. The warm ...

The rare early 80s club soul set from Margie Joseph -- kind of an bubbling, synth and programming era departure of the stunning female southern soul singer! The groove is definitely a left turn for Margie, but it's endearing modern club soul -- with the dancefloor gem "Knockout" and ...

Late 70s dancefloor soul from Soiree -- a rare disco set featuring clubby revisions of huge hits of the day and earlier, with massive talent in the group! The sound is bright and grooving, and heck of a lot more endearing than so many of the disco era remake projects, and most impressively, ...

Masterful funky soul jazz from the mid 70s -- and one of the best solo albums recorded by Headhunter Bill Summers -- a sunny batch of Bay Area funk that really grooves with the best of Fantasy Records from the time! The set was produced by Skip Scarborough, and has that great bubbling, stepping, ...

The Real Thing -- and one of the better soul acts to emerge from the UK in the 70s! The Real Thing had a nice sweet group soul sound, with the same sort of pop touches that were turning up in American groups like New York City, The O'Jays, and other stars of east coast AM radio. This album is the ...

A more melodic mix of modes from Funk Inc -- with some cool production by David Axelrod! The band's gritty funky is stretched out this time, and overall the sound's got kind of that mid 70s Prestige feel -- but the work in a variety of styles here. Includes cooking jazzy funk & soul,bits of ...

Rare soul from Jimmy Radcliffe -- an emotive and charismatic singer, who we're surprised to have only heard a rare few recordings of before this excellent set from Shout UK -- which features a number of Radcliffe singles plus cuts he wrote, produced or arranged for others via his Baby Cakes ...

A rare late LP Sam & Dave cut for United Artists in the mid 70s -- with raw & gritty soul vocals and rough hewn, yet soulfully resonant production by Steve Cropper, and backing by a slew of Memphis sessions specialists! Back At Cha is a coulda-shoulda-woulda been great comeback effort, and ...

A wonderful collection of rare rhythm & blues and soul from the Nashville scene -- most of which haven't been reissued before -- raw and truthful grooves from the 60s and singles originally released regionally on labels like Jewel, Valdot, Poncello and more. It's wonderful stuff, carrying on ...

Two great slices of work from The Tymes -- each of them different! First up is the Trustmaker album from 1974 -- soaring soul from The Tymes -- arguably their biggest album ever, and a key RCA Records soul set from the 70s! Like others at the time, the group get a hip new style here with help ...

A big British soul set from Helen Terry -- a singer who's probably most famously known for her backups on the best early singles from Culture Club -- but who sounds even more soulful here on her own! Terry's got a surprisingly great voice for a singer with a quirky, crossover look -- one that's ...

A killer album of funk and soul! The group's got a nice warm sound, with lots of Fender Rhodes and mellow basslines -- and they move between sweet ballad soul and sinister funky instrumentals! Best of all, though, they've got a great organ player who keeps putting in these nicely produced licks ...

The last album ever from Jon Lucien -- a spiritual recording, but one done with the same warm charms as his secular music! The album's hardly the standard gospel you might expect from the title -- and instead, it's done with the light blend of jazz, soul, and Caribbean influences that have always ...

A warmly crafted set that Jon Lucien recorded on his own after bigger fame at Columbia and RCA -- and a nice little record that shows that the Lucien magic was still very much in place! The set's got a gentler groove than some of his earlier records -- less ambitiously jazzy, and almost more of a ...

Jon Lucien returns to his Caribbean roots for this one -- merging together some sunnier shadings with jazzier keyboards -- all done in a self-produced mode that echoes with more modern touches than Jon's classic work. The sound's still pretty great, though, and there's a warmly gentle quality to ...

A recent set from vocalist Jon Lucien -- but easily some of the greatest work he's ever recorded! The session's done with a freeness that goes beyond even Jon's classic RCA and Columbia albums -- an acoustic setting that allows for more spontaneous expression and warmly flowing energy than we've ...

Jon Lucien revisits a host of American standards from the 20th century -- but does so in a warmly flowing mode that's even better than some of his own original work of recent years! The album features Jon working with the same sort of jazz combo backing he received on his Live In NYC album -- a ...

Amazing second-wave soul from Brenda & The Tabulations -- a mighty look at the group's years on the Top & Bottom label, a time when they really upped their game tremendously! Most tracks here still stay in that beautifully fragile harmony style that first brought the group attention in the ...

Incredible early work from Brenda & The Tabulations -- one of the best male/female soul groups of their era, yet one that's often sadly overlooked! This album will more than display why the group are so great -- as they have a unique quality that's soft and sweet, yet also deeply soulful at ...

A massive tribute to the genius of soul in the Windy City -- a wonderful compilation that really gets at the special sound Chicago brought into play during the early years of soul! The set is filled with key cuts from the Chi-town scene of the time -- some of them lesser-known that the famous hits ...

An incredible relic of the righteous underground of the late 60s from the Spirit House Movers -- and one of the few classic albums on the Jihad label! The group was a vocal group of sorts -- sometimes singing, sometimes rapping in a Last Poets-styled way -- often doing both at the same time, in a ...

Sweet 80s groove from La Voyage -- a group with a nice, lean sound -- upbeat, but never too over the top! There's a bit more depth here than usual for an indie group of this nature -- not just tracks aimed at the clubs, but some mellower soul numbers that almost feel like they're aspiring towards ...

Two classics from Luther Ingram! First up is Let's Steal Away -- a masterfully mature record that really helped take southern soul to the next level in the mid 70s! The music has a slow-building, sensuous sort of feel that's really great -- a classy, sophisticated approach, but one that still has ...

A heavy best-of from Funkadelic -- one that covers the full range of their classic sounds -- from the trippy fuzz of the early days to the tighter funk of stardom years! The package has a power that's undeniable -- a really massive batch of music that forever changed the face of funk -- arguably ...

Not as well-known as James Brown's live albums from the Apollo, but a really cooking set from the 60s that keeps up a plenty hard groove all the way through! As with most of James' live dates, the tracks here move at a clip that's often even faster than the studio work -- played to perfection by ...

Funky soul from Jesse Johnson -- the first solo record in years from The Time's guitarist -- so it's wholly appropriate that Verbal Penetration is a 2CD set! We'll just come right out with it, we're having a lot better time (or Time, get it?) with Jesse's Verbal Penetration than any recent records ...

A great little album by this jazzy soul harmony quartet! The record is their first on Elektra, and has a slightly more modern sound than earlier years -- but it retains all the best parts of their Fantasy recordings -- and is perhaps even better than them, because it has less tracks in which the ...

When the dancefloor squeaks, out come the geeks! This set's a great counterpart to the classic Was Not Was album on Ze Records -- as it offers up 12" remixes and obscurities by the group -- all done in the same disco-not-disco blend of funk, punk, and club that made their earliest work so ...

Sweet salvation from Sweet Salvation -- a righteous little soul group with a hip early 70s crossover vibe! There's a mix of gospel, soul, and funk going down here -- almost with a rootsy Swamp Dogg style at times, but a bit more put together too -- yet thankfully not nearly as slick or polished as ...

A heavy heavy set from Gloria Jones -- a record that features some killer Paul Riser arrangements that are right up there with the deepest Motown work of the early 70s! Jones' groove is always a bit different than most of her contemporaries -- not the usual Motown bag, and really far-reaching for ...

One of the greatest soul records of all time -- and an album that we'd never part with! Gloria Scott only ever recorded this one full LP -- but that's more than enough, as the whole thing's a masterpiece -- produced by Barry White with the best of his 70s approach, and featuring songs written by ...

A killer chapter in the great early run of Buddy Miles -- really genre-busting work that managed to cross over big to a number of crowds back in the day! As with his Mercury work, Miles has a wicked mix of soul, funk, rock, and blues going on here -- but one that's percolated together strongly, so ...

Mad funk from one of the heaviest cats on the early 70s Detroit scene -- guitar legend Dennis Coffey, finally given his due in a long-overdue collection of his best grooves for Sussex Records! Coffey's guitar has a sound that's been sampled countless times over the past 20 years -- a raspy way of ...

The biggest-label release ever cut by 70s funk legend Betty Davis -- but a set that's every bit as hard and heavy as the indie dates that preceded it! Davis is at the top of her form here -- bad-stepping amidst the heavy drums and freaked-out guitars that easily made her one of the funkiest folks ...

The second chapter in a mighty 70s trilogy from Ace Spectrum -- a killer set recorded for Atlantic Records, and easily some of the best group soul issued by the label in the decade! Ace Spectrum change things up a bit here from the obvious -- hitting a variety of modes that move between tightness ...

An amazingly great new album from The Persuaders -- quite possibly their best so far since the group's debut on Atlantic, and a brilliant mix of older harmonies and newer grooves! There's none of the "old group trying to come back" feel here -- because, if anything, The Persuaders sound ...

One of the few cases in the history of pop music where the record is worth all the hype! Marvin blew everyone's mind when he unleashed this amazing suite of political soul tunes -- not only just because he'd moved past the simple love songs of earlier years, but also because he was working with an ...

A marvelous package of work -- one that features 6 full albums by The Marvelettes, plus a huge amount of bonus material as well -- all done up in beautiful Hip-O Select style, with an excellent booklet of notes! The set does the world a much-needed service, and finally brings these gems back out ...

A treasure trove of hard soul -- from one of the greatest lost bands of the 60s! Soul Brother 6 are probably best known for their minor hit "Some Kind Of Wonderful", which was issued by Atlantic as a 45 in 1967 -- but this set shows the band in a completely different vein, mixing heavier ...

A great little album by The Godfather -- one that takes the core James Brown sound of the "Sex Machine" generation, and serves it up with a tighter mid 70s twist! Fred Wesley is still very firmly at the helm of the band -- and there's a power here that's equal to the later JBs work on ...

A classic album of short hard funky grooves -- put together by the legendary Oliver Sain, a genius instrumentalist/producer from St. Louis, and the man behind more soul classics than you might imagine! Oliver plays alto, organ, and piano on most cuts -- and the backing is spare and hard on nearly ...

A surprisingly nice album -- even if you're not a fan of Diana Ross! Given that Marvin and Diana are standing back to back on the front cover, we kind of get the idea that there wasn't as much sympathy in the session as on some of Marvin's classic duet sides from the 60s with Tammi Terrell -- but ...

Amazing work by a group that you've probably never heard of! The Ambassadors are an incredible Philly soul harmony group -- of the sort that never made it out of the city in the pre-Philly International years, but who had a polish and quality that was every bit as great as bigger-name acts from ...

A windy city hero -- the amazing Garland Green, a singer who makes us mighty proud we hail from Chicago! Garland's got an incredible style that few others can touch -- partly schooled in the 60s iceman modes of Jerry Butler and Walter Jackson, with all the sophistication that might imply -- but ...

A record so big they dropped the "Ross" from Diana's name -- just to show how large the lady was living at the end of the 70s! The album was a key set in the solo years of Diana's career -- a back to basics dancefloor effort done with impeccable production by Bernard Edwards and Nile ...

A searing debut from Black Heat -- one of the best funk acts to record for Atlantic during the 70s, and a tight little group with a sound that's a mixture of New Orleans funk and New York heavy! The album's got a bit of vocals -- figuring in on about half the tracks -- but the main focus here is ...

The third album from Black Heat -- and quite possibly the funkiest of the bunch -- thanks to an even tighter sound than before, and lots of emphasis on the bottom of the groove! The group's got a few more members than before, but their sound is somehow even leaner -- a really tight approach to ...

Classic funky soul from Five Special -- tightly crafted throughout, and clearly with an eye on the charts -- but also the kind of work that plays nicely on the dancefloor too! The record's got a groove that fits in nicely with some of the lesser-remembered groovers on Elektra at the time -- like ...

One of the greatest blacksploitation soundtracks of the 70s -- and one of the rarest too! The album's a crowning achievement for the mighty Don Julian -- an artist who's best known for his earlier LA soul with The Larks, but who steps out here with a hip, hard-grooving sound that's really amazing - ...

The best work we've heard in years from Terry Callier -- the legendary soul singer from Chicago who's finally getting his due! This album avoids many of the mistakes of Terry's recent comeback efforts -- and has him working with the best of the London scene -- extremely fitting, as London's always ...