Mid-seventies disco, produced by Eddie Drennon — Bo Diddley’s musical director, a decade before — and mixed by Tom Moulton.
Featuring the sublime Last Night Changed It All (I Really Had A Ball) — immortal bump’n'hustle from a woman’s point of view, beloved throughout the Zulu Nation as a queen amongst Ultimate Breaks & Beats, and sampled by De La Soul, BDP, Public Enemy, Guru, The Coup… the lot. (Trust Ghostface to piss in the font.)

With the inspirational Elevate Our Minds.
A Richard Evans production from 1979, between Chicago and LA, crowning Linda’s years masterminding Natalie Cole’s success.

Funk and soul from mid-seventies Detroit — with that layer of gritty sophistication you find in Marlena’s Blue Notes, and Esther Phillips’ Kudus of the time.

His masterpiece.

CD from Big Break Records.

1974 soul masterwork. His inimitable, melancholic, laidback, funky blend of spiritual and interpersonal insight, with angst, tenderness, fury and hurt, and political nous to spare. Great voice, too. With Dorothy Ashby. A must.

Leaving Sussex for Columbia, this 1976 classic presents a mellower Withers, notwithstanding the rough rare groove killer Make Love To Your Mind. Hello Like Before and I Wish You Well are both here, too.

All nine in the box, properly remastered, packaged in replica mini-LP sleeves, with original documentation, and new notes from scholar Michael Eric Dyson and BW himself.

Pure soul from Muscle Shoals in 1973. Heart-stopping interpretations of Carole King, Burt Bacharach, George Soule, Bob Dylan, George Jackson… he even makes an Aretha his own. Wonderful record.