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Various - The Nickel & Penny Labels - out on Numero Group
Friday 03 February 2012, 14:02
Various - The Nickel & Penny Labels
(CD/2LP) Numero Group NUM039, 2012-01-23
Esteemed Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group has been raising the bar of the soul/funk/blues/rare groove compilation standards ever since 2004 and their first Eccentric Soul collection. They even managed to get 2 albums in our 10 Reissues Of Old Stuff That's Been So Cool To (Re)Discover in 2011 selection. Their latest release, Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels is the brainchild of Richard Pegue, a Chicago DJ/producer/writer/arranger of soul records in the 60s and the 70s, and might suffer from the comparison with previous volumes in the label's flagship series - for example the Boddie Recording Co. boxset from last october... But don't let the tracklisting fool you, this new compilation is a new fabulous one, with most of its best tracks to be found in the second half of the CD! Special flavors are indeed to be found in The Halleluiah Chorus' soulful gem I've Got to Find A Way, South Shore Commision's James-Brown-meets-The Jackson-5-on-The-Blues-Brothers-set You Got Me Hummin', Brothers & Sisters's psychedelick shack Don't Let 'Em Tell You or Joyce Williams' flute-heavy The First Thing I Do In The Morning, just to name a few. We couldn't resist playing the two latter one in our january Bag of Goodies mix recorded last weekend which you should be able to download in the coming days...
10 Reissues Of Old Stuff That's Been So Cool To (Re)Discover in 2011
Saturday 31 December 2011, 23:53
Boddie Recording Company : Cleveland, Ohio (Numero Group) info
Brand New Wayo - Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983 (Comb & Razor Sound) info
Dee Dee, Barry & The Movements - Soul Hour (Sonorama) info
Ebo Taylor - Life Stories - Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 (Strut) info
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World (Numero Group) info
Phish - Hampton/Winston Salem '97 (Phish Dry Goods) info
Rail Band - Buffet Hotel de la Gare (Superfly) info
The Lijadu Sisters - Danger (Knitting Factory) info
The Original Sound of Cumbia - The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 (Soundway) info
True Soul 4LP Boxset (Now-Again) info
Various - Boddie Recording Company : Cleveland, Ohio - out on The Numero Group
Tuesday 25 October 2011, 00:16
Various - Boddie Recording Company : Cleveland, Ohio
(promo CD/3xCD/4xCD limited/5xLP/6xLP limited) Numero Group NUM035, 2011-10-25
The Numero Group has been releasing totally amazing rare soul compilations these last years. They're back with a new boxset to be released on october 25th, celebrating the Boddie Recording Company run by Thomas & Louise Boddie between 1958 and 1993. The boxset is a 5LP or 3CD one, gathering 58 tracks of eccentric soul, grainy funk and funky doo-wop or gospel. Something you should absolutely get your hands on? Surely! But if you consider buying the boxset (maybe for a christmas present?) you'll might be a little disappointed. A little. Because the pre-order period is over, and you won't get either the bonus 6th LP or the bonus 21 tracks CD... One could debate about the dark side of bonus material for early consumers for hours... but if this boxset's as luxurious as the previous Sly johnson Complete Mythology or the Light - On The South Side 70's Chicago blues boxsets, then it's another absolute must buy!
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World - out on Numero Group
Tuesday 21 June 2011, 10:49
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World
(CD/LP+7 inch) Numero Group NUM037, 2011-06-21
While most digger's labels are now hunting for Afro, Thai, Persian and more otherwordly funk, the Numero Group is still hard at work on its quest for rare and unhear American Funk and Soul, and their latest discovery is an absolute gem of psychedelic soul. As much spiritual adherents of black sounds as they were of black Islam, Father's Children was born in the dirt and grime of Washington, D.C., and incubated in local producer Robert Hosea Williams' less-than-immaculate suburban beltway garage. Hailing from the Adams-Morgan neighborhood, in 1973 Nick Smith, Billy Sumler, and Ted “Skeet” Carpenter created a lost document of gritty soul, concerned with its own time and place, stripped of the L.A. gloss that permeated the the group's own 1979 "debut" for Mercury. Unreleased until now, Father's Children's true freshman offering is an amalgam of sunny vocal group harmonies, fuzz guitar solos, shimmering keys, bubbling percussion, spiritual prophecy, and dub experiments. Who's Gonna Save The World gets the full Numero treatment, with extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos. Deluxe LP edition includes a bonus 45.
24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday
Friday 05 February 2010, 16:00 1
24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday
(CD/LP) Numero Group NUM025, 2009-07-28
Classically trained Detroit arranger Dale Warren got his start with the famed Motown label and, from the late 60s throughout the early 70s, composed the majority of string scores for soul artists on Stax Records (arranging for such artists as Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, and the Staple Singers, among others). During this time, Warren befriended an up-and-coming Cincinnati soul outfit called the Ditalians. After he convinced them to change their name to 24-Carat Black, he took them under his wing - both composing and producing their lone album, 1973's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a conceptual work that focused on life in the inner city.
when Stax finally shuttered in 1975, and for 35 years, the sketches for 24-Carat Black's sophomore release hibernated in keyboardist and session engineer Bruce Thompson's basement below the south side of Chicago. Abandoned by Warren when the studio bill darkened his mailbox, the tapes, over decades, had fallen into soggy disrepair, useless save for the six tracks featured on this release.
Various - Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace
Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:50 2
Various - Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace
(CD) Numero Group NUM027, 2009-04-21
Smart’s Palace was anything but royal. Beyond the bloodlines of the Smart Brothers and their jester brother Leroy, the only kings and queens to be discovered there were JB and Aretha playing on the Wurlitzer. However, between 1963-1975 the club held court for the entire Wichita, Kansas soul scene. At its heart was Dick Smart, bassist, club owner, DJ, record store owner, promoter, and sole proprietor of the Solo label. Collected here for the first time is the story and songs that came out of this thriving, if not totally unknown scene.
Various - This LP Crashes Hard Drives
Saturday 18 April 2009, 15:27
Various - This LP Crashes Hard Drives
(Limited edition LP 2000 copies) Numero Group, 2009-04-18 (Record Store Day)
Pressed for Record Store Day. Features a track from the upcoming Hypnotic Brass Ensemble album, Marcus Garvey... among others!
Various - Eccentric Soul - Local Customs: Downriver Revival
Monday 16 March 2009, 10:07
Various - Local Customs: Downriver Revival
(CD+DVD/2xLP+DVD) Numero Group NUM026, 2009-03-16
Between 1967 and 1981 Detroit's downriver neighbor Ecorse, MI had its very own Moe Asch. Set up in a basement on 18th Avenue, Felton Williams chronicled the musical lives of Ecorse's citizens and issued them on the Solid Rock, Cass, Compose, and Revival labels. We've compiled 24 of Williams' most fascinating recordings, covering gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk.
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Squeaky said:
Awesome, awesome, awesome! What a finish!...
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Bruce said:
in 1973 they said I was wasting my time with 24 Carat Black! Ha ha, i laugh last!...
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becca hanna-kerschen said:
i heard "barefoot philly dec.12th on KMUW and HAD to research and find out where it came from. i was blown away...
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