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VA – Mojo Presents: Revolution Blues (2018)
1. Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down 2. McCarthy – The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order 3. Sleater-Kinney – Entertain 4. Yoko Ono – Woman Power 5. MC5 – Motor City Is Burning...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Holy Blues: Reborn and Remastered (2017)
First off, back in the day, “holy” and “blues” really couldn’t be referred to in the same sentence without a fight; you could almost see the god-fearing churchgoers hustling their kids past the street...
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VA – Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth Boogie in 1980s South Africa (2018)
Since the 1990s, there have been numerous compilations covering African nations and their music scenes, most notably the funk and disco eras in the ’70s, but in 2016 the always reliable Soundway...
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VA – Vanity of Vanities: A Tribute to Connie Converse (2017)
Connie Converse was a remarkable composer who worked in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1974, depressed over her lack of recognition and success, she packed up her belongings and drove off never to be heard of...
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VA – Marylebone Beat Girls 1964-1967 (2017)
This follow-up to our recent Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls and Scratch My Back! Pye Beat Girls releases spotlights the female singers who recorded during 1964-1967 for the EMI group of labels,...
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VA – Merritone Rock Steady 3: Bang Bang Rock Steady 1966-1968 (2017)
Merritone Rock Steady 3: Bang Bang Rock Steady 1966-1968, the third edition in this universally acclaimed series including giant of the genre, Hopeton Lewis, and a scintillating selection of hit...
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VA – Looking at the Pictures in the Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds of...
Looking at the Pictures in the Sky focusses on, if received wisdom can be trusted, what was very much a “down” year for popular music. 1967 had been a real game changer, with the new scene leaders...
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VA – Beat Girls Español! 1960s She-Pop from Spain (2018)
Having already put out collections spotlighting the girl singers of ’60s Japan, France, Italy and Sweden, we now turn our attention to sunny Spain. The influence of hit records from the USA and the UK...
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VA – Thousand Incarnations of the Rose: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo...
The American Primitive/Guitar Soli “movement” got a kick start in 1994 when Rhino issued Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology. It created so much interest that Fahey began playing music...
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VA – Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop from Europe 1980-1991 (2018)
A new Music from Memory compilation is show- casing the unique and unexpected sides of pop music from across the continental underground in the ’80s and early ’90s. Compiled by Music from Memory label...
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VA – Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston-London-New York [Expanded Edition] (2017)
Out of print since it was originally released in 2002, and one of Soul Jazz Records’ most popular compilation titles, “Hustle! Reggae Disco” is getting an expanded reissue featuring five new tracks....
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VA – Mojo Presents: Big Sensations, Maximum R&B 45s from the Dawn of Mod (2018)
1. Bobby Parker – Watch Your Step 2. King Curtis – Hot Rod 3. The Egyptians – The Party Stomp 4. Chris Kenner – I Like It Like That Pt. 2 5. Mike Pedicin – Burnt Toast and Black Coffee 6. Charles...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Kiss the Sky (2017)
1. Brant Bjork & the Bros – Freak Levels 2. The 13th Floor Elevators – Reverberation 3. The Flames – Purple Haze 4. Andromeda – Day of the Change 5. Flowers Must Die – After Gong 6. Endless Boogie...
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VA – Johnny Cash: Forever Words (2018)
This companion piece of sorts to 2016’s Johnny Cash: Forever Words book finds some of Americana’s most respected artists creating music to handwritten letters, poems and other documents unearthed after...
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VA – Listen People: The Graham Gouldman Songbook 1964-2005 (2017)
In the mid-’60s barely a month went by when Graham Gouldman’s name did not feature in the UK charts under the title of a current hit. The young Mancunican wrote regularly for some of the biggest...
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VA – Revamp & Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie...
Revamp & Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin are two tribute albums to Elton John and his frequent songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. Revamp was described as John’s...
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VA – Bob Holmes’ Nashville Soul (2017)
Bob Holmes played a fairly prominent role in the Nashville soul scene of the ’60s and ’70s. Holmes could do a little bit of everything. He wrote, he arranged, and he produced, talents that are...
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VA – Hunee: Hunchin’ All Night (2018)
Hunee’s frenetic, oft-shoeless DJ sets have netted him breathless fans in nearly every corner of the globe, due in part to his ability to travel through genres and decades with inimitable ease. Go to a...
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VA – Spiritual Jazz Vol. 8: Japan Parts I & II; Modal, Esoteric and Ethereal...
At first glance, everything about Spiritual Jazz 8: Japan Pt. 1 might seem a bit too niche: it’s a compilation of esoteric Japanese jazz from 1961 to 1983, featuring several musicians so obscure beyond...
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VA – Mojo Presents: 2000 Light Years from Home; UK Rock Trips Out 1967-1970...
1. Small Faces – Afterglow 2. Rupert’s People – I Can Show You 3. Andromeda – Day of the Change 4. Episode Six – Mr Universe 5. The Pretty Things – She Says Good Morning 6. Bobak, Jons, Malone – On a...
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