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Wholesome digi-roots bumper from 1990; rinsed by Shaka in the day.
The first-round-knockout is an inspired elaboration of Everybody Loves The Sunshine. (You can hear singer Kenny Stover’s years with Marvin Gaye, too.) Plus terrific original versions of I’m Back For More and Madame Butterfly, as smashed by Al Johnson and Tavares.
The great boneman’s 1974 masterwork, with highlights like the ten-minute work-out I’m Payin’ Taxes, What Am I Buyin’, the party-hearty If You Don’t Get It The First Time, the grooving, fist-in-the-air Same Beat (with that sample of Jesse Jackson), and the stunning out-funk of Blow Your Head.
With a 22” x 22” poster featuring the original cover art, as well as a 7-inch flexidisc of the rare Unrubbed Version (without Moog) of Blow Your Head, only available previously on the compilation James Brown’s Funky People Part 3.
Evocative, engaging considerations of close relationships, a bit like a family portrait, centred on the German town of Ravensburg (home of the trumpeter’s grandmother), by a sextet including affective violin and two drummers, involving African percussion, homemade cymbals and bundles of brushwood, with ‘driving rhythm at the bottom end and soaring melody at the top.’
Infectious, party-hearty, yes yes y’all rapping, from deep in the early-80s.
Peter Brown’s in-house Land Of Hits Orchestra gives up the instrumental, on the flip.
The first Paid Reach — in collaboration with Ominira; edited and produced by Kassem Mosse.
Kicking off with his magnificent 1963 hit Cry Baby — both sides of all fourteen sevens. Superb sixties soul music, shaded out of doo wop, brimming with gospel.
Funk scorchers from the house band at FAME in 1969. Freeman Brown, Jesse Boyce, Clayton Ivey, Junior Lowe… Knockout sevens like Grits And Gravy and Turn My Chicken Loose — equal parts Meters, MGs, JBs — with a heap of top-notch stuff out here for the first time.