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Booker T. & the MG's: Green Onions [Bonus Tracks]

CD / Soul Jam / 2013-06-18

Tracks: Green Onions; Rinky-Dink; I Got a Woman; Mo' Onions; Twist and Shout; Behave Yourself; Stranger On the Shore; Lonely Avenue; One Who Really Loves You; Can't Sit Down; Woman, a Lover, a Friend, A; Com...
Artists: Booker T. & the MG's

Booker T. & The MG's: Booker T. Jones (organ); Steve Cropper (guitar); Lewis Steinberg (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).

Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee in June & August 1962.

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Don Covay/Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band: House of Blue Lights [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Don Covay/Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band

Full performer name: Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band.

Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band includes: Don Covay, Joe Richardson, John Hammond.

This album, credited to Don...continue...

Wilson Pickett: Right On [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett encountered a momentary slump in 1970, as this album was his first for Atlantic in many years that stayed locked in the bottom rungs of the pop Top 200 albums. Pickett did get a fluke n...continue...

King Curtis: Have Tenor Sax Will Blow [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: King Curtis

This is one fun dance record, right from the opening bars of "Midnight Ramble," a piece that sounds like a cross-breeding of "Bo Diddley," with both the sax and the lead guitar having fun with the cen...continue...

Aretha Franklin: Young Gifted & Black [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Aretha Franklin

Recorded over a seven-month period in 1970 and 1971, YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK captures Aretha Franklin at the peak of her artistic and commercial powers. A stirring, rock-solid release that holds its o...continue...

Gwen McCrae: On My Way [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Gwen McCrae

Brook Benton: Home Style [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Brook Benton

Like his other record from 1970, Today, Brook Benton's Home Style was also produced by Arif Mardin and recorded in Miami and New York. However, this album used the Dixie Flyers as the backing band and...continue...

King Curtis: Live at Fillmore West [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: King Curtis

Personnel: King Curtis (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones); Cornell Dupree (guitar); Lou Collins (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Mitchell (baritone saxophone); Roger Hopps (trumpet); Jack Hale (trombone); Tru...continue...

Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Aretha Franklin

SPIRIT IN THE DARK represents Aretha Franklin at the height of her majestic vocal power. This is Southern, gospel-based R&B/soul circa 1969/70, featuring the cream of the genre's players: the Dixie Fl...continue...

King Curtis: Live at Small's Paradise [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: King Curtis

There's very little in the way of audience ambience or other interaction on this recording, done at a club in Harlem, but it does have all of the other expected virtues of a concert recording. The ten...continue...

Percy Sledge: Warm & Tender Soul [Remastered]

CD / WEA Japan / 2013-05-14

Artists: Percy Sledge

Percy Sledge's sophomore effort, Warm & Tender Soul, is rarely mentioned in the same breath as its predecessor, When a Man Loves a Woman, but it should be. Despite the absence of a blockbuster crossov...continue...

Johnny Copeland: It's Me: Classic Texas Soul 1965-72 *

CD / Kent Soul / 2013-05-07

Tracks: It's Me; Invitation, The; Blowin' in the Wind; I'm Going to Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat; Dedicated to the Greatest; You're Gonna Reap What You Sow; Wake Up Little Susie; Mother Nature; I Waited ...
Artists: Johnny Copeland

Liner Note Author: Tony Rounce.

Johnny Copeland is one of those singers who is beloved by a few but known by only a handful more. He had his shot at the big time in the '80s, when he recorded a...continue...

Aretha Franklin: Original Album Series [Box]

CD / Warner Bros. / 2013-04-23

Tracks: Respect; Drown in My Own Tears; I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You); Soul Serenade; Don't Let Me Lose This Dream; Baby, Baby, Baby; Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business); Good Times; Do Righ...
Artists: Aretha Franklin

Import only five CD box set containing a quintet of original albums from the legendary Soul diva: Aretha Now, I Never Loved A Man The...continue...
Liner Note Authors: Jerry Wexler; Jon Landau; Jack Springer.

Warner Bros repackaged and re-released six LPs by Aretha Franklin as a five-disc set. It's not a bad way to acquire the albums if yo...continue...

Geater Davis: The Lost Soul Man

CD / Luv N' Haight / 2013-04-09

Tracks: My Love Is So Strong For You; For Your Precious Love; I Love You; I Can Hold My Own; Cry, Cry, Cry; Don't Marry A Fool; St. James Infirmary; Wrapped Up In You; Sweet Woman's Love; I Know (My Baby Lov...
Artists: Geater Davis

Geater Davis was a singer from Texas who had the chops to be one of the great men of the soul era, but bad luck and bad timing kept him from enjoying the success he deserved. Davis would have been a p...continue...

Various Artists: Crossover to Soul: More Crossover Soul from the '60s & '70s

CD / Backbeats (Record Label) / 2013-04-02

Artists: Various Artists

Solomon Burke: Solomon Burke's Greatest Hits

CD / Hallmark / 2013-03-05

Artists: Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke's booming, magnificent vocals and dramatic approach were particularly effective on a string of great early-'60s tracks. The lyrics, production, and setting blended soul and country eleme...continue...

Swamp Dogg: Rat On! [Digipak]

CD / Alive Naturalsound Records / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Do You Believe; Predicament # 2; Remember, I Said Tomorrow; Creeping Away; Got to Get a Message to You; God Bless America for What; I Kissed Your Face; That Ain't My Wife; She Even Woke Me Up to Say ...
Artists: Swamp Dogg

Personnel: Jesse Carr (guitar, background vocals); Stacy Goss, Mike Stough (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jerry Williams, Jr. (piano, background vocals); Jasper Guarino (drums); Robert "Pops" Popwell (percuss...continue...

Swamp Dogg: Total Destruction to Your Mind [Digipak]

CD / Alive Natural Sounds / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Total Destruction to Your Mind; Synthetic World; Dust Your Head Color Red; Redneck; If I Die Tomorrow (I've Lived Tonight); I Was Born Blue; Sal-a-Faster; World Beyond, The; These Are Not My People; ...
Artists: Swamp Dogg

Personnel: Jesse Carr (guitar); Maconites (horns); Paul Hornsby (piano, organ); Jerry Williams, Jr. (piano); Johnny (Duck) Sandlin (drums); Jackie Avery (background vocals).

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Otis Redding: Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding

CD / Concord / 2013-03-05

Tracks: I Love You More Than Words Can Say; Gone Again; Free Me; Open the Door [Skeleton Key Version]; Waste of Time, A; These Arms of Mine; I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now); Everybody Makes a Mis...
Artists: Otis Redding

Personnel: Otis Redding (vocals).

Liner Note Author: Marty Hackman.

Otis Redding's recording career really only lasted five years, from 1962 through 1967 (seven studio albums in all), an...continue...

Various Artists: South Texas Rhythm 'n' Soul Revue

CD / Kent / 2013-03-05

Tracks: Go Go Train - Jackie Paine; Doggin' Around - Jean Knight; Get to Gitten' - Big Walter; Tennessee Waltz - Warren Storm; Trick Bag - Sunny & the Sunliners; Pick Me Up on Your Way Down - Margo White; Lo...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Tony Rounce.

Photographer: Gilles Pétard.

The first of what's promised to be many trips into Huey P. Meaux's deep vaults, Ace's 2013 compilation South Texas Rhyth...continue...

Booker T. Jones: Evergreen

CD / Wounded Bird / 2013-02-12

Tracks: Jamaica Song; Mama Stewart; Tennessee Voodoo; Flamingo; Song for Casey; Evergreen; Country Days; Why Me; Front Street Rag; Lie to Me; Evergreen [Single Version]; Life Is Funky; Take Me to the River -...
Artists: Booker T. Jones

Personnel: Booker T. Jones (guitars, keyboards); David T. Walker (guitars); Michael Utley (keyboards); Jim Keltner, Sammy Creason (drums); Bobbye Hall Porter (congas).

Photographer: Jim Marshal...continue...

King Curtis: Azure [Bonus Tracks] [Remaster]

CD / Essential Media Group / 2013-02-12

Tracks: Close Your Eyes; Unchained Melody; Off Shore; Nearness of You, The; Misty; Stranger; When I Fall in Love; It Ain't Necessarily So; Our Love Is Here to Stay; My Love Is Your Love; Sweet and Lovely; Az...
Artists: King Curtis

King Curtis: King Curtis; Lloyd Trotman (bass instrument); Ernie Royal, Panama Francis, Mundell Lowe.

Personnel: King Curtis (tenor saxophone); Mundell Lowe, Billy Bauer (guitar); Garvin Bushel...continue...

Booker T. & the MG's: Green Onions

CD / Hallmark / 2013-01-29

Tracks: Green Onions; Rinky Dink; I Got A Woman; Mo' Onions; Twist and Shout; Behave Yourself; Stranger On The Shore; Lonely Avenue; One Who Really Loves You; You Can't Sit Down; A Woman, A Lover, A Friend; ...
Artists: Booker T. & the MG's

Booker T. & The MG's: Booker T. Jones (organ); Steve Cropper (guitar); Lewis Steinberg (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).

Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee in June & August 1962.

Includes lin...continue...