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VA – Northern Soul: The Film Soundtrack (2014)
The soundtrack package for Northern Soul consists of CD1: the soundtrack itself containing all the key Northern Soul tracks from the film, CD2: an additional CD of specially chosen Northern Soul...
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VA – Ten Out of Tenn: 10 Years (2015)
Ten Out of Tenn was formed in 2005 by Kristen and Trent Dabbs, and it has seen some of Nashville’s most talented songwriters fall into its ranks over the last decade. Ready, Set, Records! released the...
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VA – Uncut: You Gotta Move! (2015)
1. The Fall – Fibre Book Troll 2. Gill Landry – Funeral in My Heart 3. FFS – Johnny Delusional 4. Jim O’Rourke – This Weekend 5. Richard Thompson – Beatnik Walk 6. Funkadelic & Soul Clap feat. Sly...
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VA – Mojo Presents: The Roots of Fleetwood Mac (2015)
1. Freddie King – San Ho Zay 2. Elmore James – Shake Your Moneymaker 3. Buster Brown – Doctor Brown 4. Otis Rush – So Many Roads 5. Howlin’ Wolf – No Place to Go 6. Little Walter – Last Night 7....
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VA – Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton (2015)
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the New York folk singer Karen Dalton released a couple of albums of spindly, meditative folk-blues before disappearing into obscurity. She died in 1993, and years...
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VA – Putumayo Presents Café del Mundo (2014)
Globe-trotting label Putumayo offers up Café del Mundo, a collection of low-key, singer/songwriter-oriented fare from a variety of different nationalities. Songs like “Ojos Negros” by Cuban duo...
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VA – The Rough Guide to African Rare Groove, Volume 1 (2015)
The concept of ‘Rare Groove’ has come a long way since its origins in the 1980s London club scene, where DJs would try to out-do each other with soul and funk obscurities. These days the blogosphere is...
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VA – Rough Guide to Fado Legends (2014)
Fado is the lifeblood of Portugal’s urban folk scene. Its melancholic songs pump thick through Lisbon’s cobbled streets and steaming port-side bars, piercing the hearts of listeners with typically...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India (2015)
While much has been made of Indian music’s influence on Western psychedelia, it seems the reverse was also true. Paralleling George Harrison’s introduction of the sitar into Western pop culture via the...
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VA – Jukebox Mambo, vol. 2: Afro-Latin Accents in Rhythm & Blues 1947-61 (2014)
Some spicy finger food from the Jazzman label. Jukebox Mambo vol. 2 is the second part in this funky journey. Based around mid 20th century mambo jams, this spans all sorts of African-american styles...
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VA – Catch Action: The Sophisticated Boogie Funk of Sheridan House Records...
Between the late 70s and the mid-80s, a Los Angeles based label named Sheridan House was releasing slabs of modern soul, boogie & funk on (now rare) wax. DJ Shane “Sureshot” Hunt has compiled his...
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VA – Uncut’s High Numbers (2015)
1. Mikal Cronin – Say 2. Giant Sand – Texting Feist 3. My Morning Jacket – Big Decisions 4. Thee Oh Sees – Web 5. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – The Traveling Kind 6. The Weather Station – Way...
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VA – Uncut: Into the Mystic (2015)
1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Funeral 2. David Corley – Available Light 3. Calexico – Falling from the Sky 4. Cannibal Ox feat MF Doom – Iron Rose (Skylab 3 Remix) 5. Waxahatchee – Under a Rock...
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VA – Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock,...
On the third volume of Bear Family’s seven-entry country-rock chronicle Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country-Rock, the label moves into 1970, a year that saw a nascent,...
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VA – Soul Emissaries: SuperFunk (2015)
Ace revives their SuperFunk series in 2015 with Soul Emissaries. The title alone is a tipoff that this collection has a bit of a heavier soul bent than its predecessors, and that’s quite appealing....
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VA – Pete Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia (2015)
After the London Symphony Orchestra’s version of the Who’s Tommy, Classic Quadrophenia is Pete Townshend’s second rock opera to be turned into a, well, opera. Who fans might spit beer into their...
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VA – Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock,...
The fourth volume of Bear Family’s seven-edition country-rock history Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock kicks off with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet...
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VA – Tropical Disco Hustle, Volume Two (2015)
Cultures of Soul release the highly anticpated follow-up to the widely successful Tropical Disco Hustle compilation, an album full of rare disco tunes that exude a Caribbean flavor. This volume takes...
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VA – Spirit of Malombo: Malombo, Jabula, Jazz Afrika 1966-1984 (2014)
South Africa’s Julian Bahula created a unique synthesis of Western jazz and the indigenous rhythms of his home country, spreading his culture to an international audience as well as creating awareness...
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VA – Audio With a G: Sounds of a Jersey Boy – the Music of Bob Gaudio (2014)
Bob Gaudio didn’t begin his career writing for Frankie Valli, and he’d later work with other artists, but there’s no denying he’s identified with the Jersey singer. Valli was Gaudio’s vehicle, Gaudio...
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