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VA – Uncut: Doing It Right! (2015)
1. The Decemberists – The Wrong Year 2. Pond – Waiting Around for Grace 3. Sons of Bill – Lost in the Cosmos 4. Justin Townes Earle – Round the Bend 5. The Waterboys – Destinies Entwind 6. Jim White...
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VA – Early Indiana Punk and New Wave: The Crazy Al’s Year(s) 1976 – 1983 (2014)
Documenting a vibrant and diverse Indianapolis area punk/new wave scene from 1976-1983 and featuring a mammoth lineup of 38 bands and 46 tracks, mostly original material, many unreleased and few...
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VA – New Orleans Soul: The Original Sound of New Orleans Soul 1960-76 (2014)
For more than ten years Soul Jazz Records have been exploring and documenting the sound of New Orleans Funk. Now they turn their attention to the flipside of this musical coin – New Orleans Soul. These...
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VA – Cold Cold Heart: Where Country Meets Soul, Volume 3 (2014)
Where Country Meets Soul has proved to be one of the most popular series on Kent UK. The two earlier volumes were highly acclaimed and sold in quantities that demanded a third. As with previous...
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VA – Funky Soul Brothers and Sisters: Ghetto Funk Classics & Southern Fried...
38 tracks compilation of classic funk and funky soul cuts spread across a broad stylistic spread. So many highlights with a mix of well known gems like Gil Scott-Heron’s The Bottle, Linda Clifford’s...
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VA – Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music and Photographs from the American South...
A portrait of the rural American South between the dawn of the twentieth century and World War II, Lead Kindly Light brings together two CDs of traditional music from early phonograph records and a...
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VA – Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn...
In 2013, noted filmmakers and screenwriters Ethan Coen and Joel Coen released the motion picture Inside Llewyn Davis, a comedy-drama set against the backdrop of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the...
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VA – NME Presents: Transgressive 10 (2014)
Unreleased tracks by artists including Foals, Two Door Cinema Club and Pulled Apart By Horses are included on a free CD given away with this week’s NME to celebrate 10 years of Transgressive Records....
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VA – John Beltran Presents Music for Machines (2014)
John Beltran has been composing ambient techno and modern classical music for over two decades, releasing music on labels such as R&S, Retroactive and Peacefrog since the mid ’90s. Delsin Records...
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VA – Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock,...
The second volume of Bear Family’s seven-disc country-rock history Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels focuses on 1969, a crucial year in the music’s development. It was the year Gram Parsons broke free...
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VA – Uncut: The Best of 2014 (2015)
1. The War On Drugs – Burning 2. Sin Kil Moon – Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes 3. Sharon Van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up 4. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Chart Junk 5. St...
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VA – Uncut: Eclipsed (2014)
1. Jesse Winchester – Ghosts 2. Steve Gunn – Milly’s Garden 3. Ex Hex – Waterfall 4. Chris Forsyth – I Ain’t Waiting 5. Philip Selway – Coming Up for Air 6. Lucinda Williams – Burning Bridges 7....
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VA – Swamp Pop By the Bayou (2014)
Another installment in Ace’s ongoing and reliably riotous journey through the independent imprints that dotted the jukebox and record stores of southern Louisiana and southeastern Texas in the late...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Change the Beat (2015)
1. 23 Skidoo – Coup 2. ESG – Erase You 3. Bush Tetras – You Can’t Be Funky 4. Delta 5 – Triangle 5. James White and the Blacks – Sax Maniac 6. Arthur Russell – Hop On Down 7. Screamin’ Rachael – My...
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VA – Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965-1974 (2014)
The first album ever outside of Spain to focus on the history of Gipsy Rhumba, one of the most interesting musical culture clashes, first taking place in the early 1960s. In the Catalan region of Spain...
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VA – Atlantic Jazz Legends (2014)
Though it lacked Blue Note’s aura of hipness and the esoteric mystique of Impulse!, Atlantic is nevertheless viewed by collectors as an iconic record label in the history of jazz music. Its jazz...
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VA – Ten Cities (2014)
For Ten Cities, a unique compilation from the Soundway label, producers from five European cities collaborated with musicians in an equal number of African cities. Altogether, 50 figures were involved....
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VA – Uncut: Fresh Meat (2015)
1. Dan Deacon – Feel the Lightening 2. Phosphorescent – The Quotidian Beasts 3. Pops Staples – Somebody Was Watching 4. BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Gunshowers 5. Father John Misty – Chateau...
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VA – Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical and Revolutionary Jazz in the USA...
This double-disc set is the companion soundtrack to Soul Jazz’s book of the same name. It documents 14 wide-ranging tracks by well-known foundational artists and those who followed the New Thing path...
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VA – New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City (2015)
For more than a century, the signature sound of New Orleans has been the brass band — at once a source of celebration, collective expression, and community pride. On February 10, Smithsonian Folkways...
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