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Collectable Vinyl Reproductions Of Big Bucks Classic R'n'B Northern Soul

Collectable Vinyl Reproductions Of Big Bucks Classic R'n'B Northern Soul

New Release On The Iconic Relaunched Soul Re-Issue Label: One Of The Greatest Northern Soul Discoveries Ever Backed With Another Rare Tunek Featuring The Same Instrumental

Mehr Northern Soul-Raritäten auf 7" Vinyl!

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The COMPLETE STUDIO SESSION along with LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS LIVE AT THE ASH GROVE club...now for the FIRST TIME ever on 180 gram DOUBLE VINYL!! This 1960 studio session commemorates a rare moment in blues history. With the help of the ubiquitous Lomax family, Pacific World Records managed to get four giants of the blues - Lightnin' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and Big Joe Williams - together in-studio for this informal jam session on 6 July 1960. Interestingly, it was also the first time that Hopkins and McGhee had ever met (although each man had always admired the other's guitar playing tremendously). Eight years prior, McGhee had even written a 'challenge' song called 'A Letter To Lightnin' Hopkins', to which Lightnin' had the chance to respond for the first time here in this entirely improvised 'answer song' called 'First Meetin''. In fact, most of the songs on this album, like 'Wimmin From Coast To Coast' and 'Ain't Nothin' Like Whisky', are recorded in a rare call-and-answer format between Lightnin', Brownie and Big Joe. In addition, Side D features a LIVE recording of Lightnin' Hopkins playing the legendary Ash Grove folk club in L.A. the following night (7 July 1960). Pure unrehearsed genius! These men were not mere blues players, they were mediums for the divine!

SIDE A: 1. First Meetin' 2. If You Steal My Chickens You Can't Make 'Em Lay 3. Wimmin From Coast To Coast

SIDE B: 1. Ain't Nothin' Like Whisky 2. Penitentiary Blues 3. Right On That Store

SIDE C: 1. Early Morning Blues 2. Blues For Gamblers 3. Bucked And Scorned

SIDE D: 1. Excuse Me Miss 2. Big Black Cadillac Blues 3. Coffee House Blues 4. Stool Pigeon Blues 5. Ball of Twine 6. How Long Have It Been Since You've Been Home I

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2 Classic 6Ts Northern Soul/Mod Sides From The Legendary Philly Label Cameo-Parkway Reissued For The First Time

New Release On The Iconic Relaunched Soul Re-Issue Label: A Double Sider That Is Sure To Create A Storm With A Breathtaking Adrenalin Rammed 100mph Mover Causing Dancefloor Mayhem

New Release On The Iconic Relaunched Soul Re-Issue Label: Original Version Of tHe First 'Modern Soul' Tune Played On The Northern Scene From 1973 Backed With An Another Unreleased Tom Moulton Mix

It Really Hurts Me Girl

Two hot and wild instro's pulled together and twinned on this greasy little 45 to set tassels twirling all over the globe! 'Scorpion' is a cool and unique take on the Champs 'Tequila', with a twangy guitar lead gliding and surfing along the driving bass and Cali-Mex percussion lines underneath. Flip it over and 'Casual' gives you a dose of raunchy, sax-led sleaze, low slung and heavy like the mammaries in a Russ Meyer flick!

Fantastic and hypnotic harp driven country blues obscurity

Mambo style R'n'B rocker backed with excellent guitar blues

One of the finest piano players and vocalists of post-war Chicago blues, Mississippi native, Sunnyland Slim first came to prominence playing on the Chicago scene with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters. By 1947 he had landed a recording contract with Aristocrat (soon-to-be Chess Records), recording his first single, 'Johnson Machine Gun', in September of that year with none-other-than Muddy Waters on guitar. This, of course, led to Muddy's historic signing to the label soon afterward. 1961's Slim's Shout, however, finds this giant of the Windy City in far-off New Jersey, at a classic recording session for the Bluesville label. Here, Slim—backed by the legendary King Curtis (best known for his sax playing on recordings by the Coasters and Aretha Franklin)—lays down favorites like 'The Devil Is A Busy Man', 'It's You Baby', and the driving 'Shake It' (check out Robert Banks' organ solo on this track). Also featuring two bonus tracks not found on the original vinyl: 'Everytime I Get to Drinking' and 'Tired Of You Clowning'!
SIDE A: 1. I'm Prison Bound 2. Slim's Shout 3. The Devil Is A Busy Man 4. Brownskin Woman 5. Shake It 6. Everytime I Get To Drinking (bonus)

SIDE B: 1. Decoration Day 2. Baby How Long 3. Sunnyland Special 4. Harlem Can't Be Heaven 5. It's You Baby 6. Tired Of You Clowning (bonus)

The Viper Label is delighted to present T. G. Elias, a prolific writer and performer whose distinctive, subtle and powerful voice holds audiences spellbound with his mesmerizing performances. Drawing from his deeply rooted relationship with Gospel, Country and Blues, the result is a collection of candid tales and life stories, served up by a journeyman with an understated raw emotion.  
A classic album, that if you allow it will stir your heart and soul.
01. The Everlasting Gospel
02. The Vagrant Son of a Policeman
03. Final over fling as an Englishman
04. Ball & Chain
05. Prelude to God's own land
06. God's own Land
07. Life after Stromberg
08. The Hollow Trophy
09. The Ballad of Lenny Crow
10. Mend & Make do
11. Southbound Otley Highway
12. Take my Hand, Precious Lord

From R&S to Polydor. James Blake's cover of Feist & Chilly Gonzales's 'Limit To Your Love', released on heavyweight 10" vinyl

The first time ever on vinyl for these 1964 Rudy Van Gelder recordings for Blue Note; and astral strides beyond the flat highlife cuts originally issued. With Donald Byrd, Hubert Laws and Elvin Jones stretching out breathtakingly amongst resplendent Nigerian drumming, and anticipating the vibes of classic Pharoah and Alice Coltrane. Around thirteen minutes each side.

Johnny Cash is almost as well known for his spotted past as for his redemption. This fourth volume of the Bootleg Series focuses on the religious side of The Man In Black, showcasing the best of his Gospel on three 180 grams audiophile vinyl albums. Songs of Faith that were recorded during the 1970's and 1980's, this is a collection of previously unreleased and out-of-print studio material (including an unreleased 1975 Gospel album) and features duets and collaborations with June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Cindy Cash, Anita Carter, Helen Carter, Rodney Crowell, Jessi Colter, and others. Released on the heels of the 2CD release, the volume comes in a 10mm sleeve with a 20 page booklet filled with highly personal liner notes by his son John Carter Cash!

This new album on Soul Jazz Records is a stunning collection of tracks by female country singers. The album features all the classic artists - Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker - as well as many lesser-known singers.
1. Dolly Parton - Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind
2. Lynn Anderson - Fancy
3. Jeannie C. Riley - I've Done A Lot of Livin' Since Then
4. Bobbie Gentry - Reunion
5. Tammy Wynette - Tonight My Baby's Coming Home
6. Jean Shepard - A Satisfied Mind
7. Nancy Sinatra - Get While the Gettin's Good
8. Tanya Tucker - California Cotton Fields
9. Sammie Smith - Saunders Ferry Line
10. Connie Smith - If It Ain't Love
11. Jean Shepard - Two Whoops and A Holler
12. Billie Jo Spears - Mr Walker
13. Patsy Cline - Ain't No Wheels On This Ship
14. Barbara Fairchild - Color My World
15. Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
16. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA
17. Jody Miller - A Woman Left Lonely
18. Kitty Wells - Delta Dawn
19. Diana Trask - Show Me
20. Norma Jean - He's All I Got
21. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
22. Bonnie Guitar - Tender Words
23. Barbara Mandrell - Husband Stealer
24. Diana Trask - I'll Never Do You Wrong
25. Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

This new album on Soul Jazz Records is a stunning collection of tracks by female country singers. The album features all the classic artists - Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker - as well as many lesser-known singers.
1. Dolly Parton - Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind
2. Lynn Anderson - Fancy
3. Jeannie C. Riley - I've Done A Lot of Livin' Since Then
4. Bobbie Gentry - Reunion
5. Tammy Wynette - Tonight My Baby's Coming Home
6. Jean Shepard - A Satisfied Mind
7. Nancy Sinatra - Get While the Gettin's Good
8. Tanya Tucker - California Cotton Fields
9. Sammie Smith - Saunders Ferry Line
10. Connie Smith - If It Ain't Love
11. Jean Shepard - Two Whoops and A Holler
12. Billie Jo Spears - Mr Walker
13. Patsy Cline - Ain't No Wheels On This Ship
14. Barbara Fairchild - Color My World
15. Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
16. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA
17. Jody Miller - A Woman Left Lonely
18. Kitty Wells - Delta Dawn
19. Diana Trask - Show Me
20. Norma Jean - He's All I Got
21. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
22. Bonnie Guitar - Tender Words
23. Barbara Mandrell - Husband Stealer
24. Diana Trask - I'll Never Do You Wrong
25. Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

A House Safe For Tigers is the soundtrack to one of the seven TV movies Lee Hazlewood made with the director Torbjörn Axelman during his period living in Sweden in the early 1970s. Hazlewood had moved there to lay low and to help his son avoid the draft, but wound up finding happiness and creative freedom. Many of the albums recorded in Sweden made their way no further than Scandinavia, but of them all, A House Safe For Tigers is the holy grail for collectors, often changing hands for hundreds of dollars.
*Originally only available in Sweden, this marks the first time Tigers has been reissued and available the world over. The movie was a 'semi-documentary' featuring Hazlewood and his friend Axelman, looking back to childhood and contemplating the meaning of life. In it, Hazlewood runs a marathon, tells anecdotes about a bum who cured his stutter and convinces a group of Swedish children to take sides against Richard Nixon. 'It's strange, very strange,' Hazlewood said, 'But we meant it to be strange.

TRACKLIST:1. Souls Island 2. A House Safe For Tigers 3. Our Little Boy Blue 4. Absent Friends - A House Safe For Tigers 5. Sand Hill Anna And The Russian Mouse 6. Lars Gunnar And Me 7. Souls Island 8. Las Vegas - A House Safe For Tigers 9. The Nights 10. A House Safe For Tigers - Choir

In anticipation of the forthcoming full length compilation of wild Latin Rumba accented Rhythm & Blues 'Jukebox Mambo', we have followed up the success of our unique 102 release!

Two raucous, stomping bar-room bawlers here from obscure blues shouter Hubert Robinson of Houston, Texas, singing over a really hot backing group playing it pretty loose with twanging bass, a head-nodding beat and honking horn eruptions!

Robinson's brief recording career began in 1947 as featured vocalist with sax-man Curtis Amy. From there, Robinson moved on to feature with a couple of other orchestra's before releasing two 78's for the husband and wife owned local Houston stable Macy's. We've picked the best of those two releases for this pairing, first time ever on 45rpm vinyl with label artwork which lovingly restores the original Macy's design!

Fryers and Jazzman are used to dealing with tracks that fall under the radar for all kinds of reasons, but this legendary Sister Funk cut out of sunny Florida is almost unique in that it missed its chance to shine twice. Originally recorded as a hard-nosed James Brown inspired funk number, then again years later as a more open disco-soul inspired dance floor cut that fits in with the current trend of the new funky Northern sound.

Classic slide guitar country blues from 1940 and now available for the first time on 45rpm - masterpiece!

Record Store Day 2012 Release.

Side A is a cover of Nirvana's 'Stay Away' by Charles Bradley.
Side B is the instrumental by the Menahan Street Band

Killer Wild Unreleased Acetate from Clyde Stacy.1st Time On Vinyl!!!. This Rockabilly/Rocker was cut at the same session as "Hoy Hoy" and it's got the lot! 3 Guitar Breaks, Screams,Slappin' Bass.
The flip is a nice unissued Eddie Cochran style teener

Off beat delivery, party lyrics and great guitar break with cool blues flip.

50's jump Blues shouters do not come much better than this belting two-sider. From the blonde wig wearing ferguson.

Killer vocals and great delivery with harmonica backing get this 'train' chugging rhythm moving along