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Various Artists: Rhythm 'n' Bluesin' by the Bayou

CD / Ace (Label) / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Rocky - Rockin' Sidney/Rock Sidney & His All-Stars; I Don't Care - Tabby Thomas; Give It Up - Charles Sheffield; Crazy About Love (aka As Long as I'm Moving); Right from Wrong - Billy Tate; Hey Matti...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Ian Saddler.

Photographers: Mike Leadbitter; Hasse Andréasson.

Ace dug deep into the rock & roll of Louisiana on their Boppin' by the Bayou series, but 2013's Rhy...continue...

Dan Penn: The Fame Recordings *

CD / Ace (Label) / 2012-11-06

Tracks: Keep on Talking; Feed the Flame; Far from the Maddening Crowd; Uptight Good Woman; Come Into My Heart; Don't Lose Your Good Thing; Come on Over; Rainbow Road; Unfair; Thin Line, The; I Need a Lot of ...
Artists: Dan Penn

Liner Note Author: Alec Palao.

Recording information: Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals (1964-1966).

Photographer: Anna Eskridge.

In the first few pages of Peter Guralnick's superb book...continue...

Various Artists: Rolling with the Punches: The Allen Toussaint Songbook

CD / Ace (Label) / 2012-11-06

Tracks: Here Come the Girls - Ernie K-Doe; Hercules - Boz Scaggs; What Is Success - Bonnie Raitt; Occapella - Lee Dorsey; Let's Live - Aaron Neville; Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) - Don Covay; ...
Artists: Various Artists

Tributee: Allen Toussaint.

Tributee: Allen Toussaint.

Liner Note Author: Tony Rounce.

Allen Toussaint is unquestionably one of the great American songwriters of the 20th century, ...continue...

The Soul Children: Soul Children/Genesis (2 On 1)

CD / Ace (Label) / 2012-10-09

Tracks: I'll Understand; Move Over; When Tomorrow Comes; Sweeter He Is Pt. 1; Sweeter He Is Pt 2; Tighten up My Thang; Give 'Em Love; Doing Our Thang; Take up the Slack; Super Soul; My Bby Specializes; I Wan...
Artists: The Soul Children

Great value on this import reissue of two original albums. ~ Richard Pack...continue...

The Rumblers (Surf): Rumblin' & Rare *

CD / Ace (Label) / 2012-09-04

Tracks: Boss Drums; Poor Boy - (previously unreleased); Wockytok - (previously unreleased); Slippin' - (mono); Summertime Blues; Son of Boss; Sorry (For the Way I Treated You) - (mono); Sweet Potato - (mono)...
Artists: The Rumblers (Surf)

Liner Note Author: Brian Nevill.

Although they're generally lumped in with the instrumental surf bands of the early to mid-'60s, the Rumblers were really more of a white R&B group specializing ...continue...

Various Artists: Have Mercy! The Songs of Don Covay

CD / Ace (Label) / 2012-07-03

Tracks: Three Time Loser - Wilson Pickett; Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin; You're Good for Me - Solomon Burke; This Old Town (People in This Town) - The Staple Singers; I Don't Know What You've Got But It'...
Artists: Various Artists

Tributee: Don Covay.

Liner Note Authors: Malcolm Baumgart; Mick Patrick.

Illustrators: Malcolm Baumgart; Alec Palao; Peter Gibbon; Roger Armstrong; Mick Patrick.

As influential as...continue...