eddie gale
black rhythm happening
With heavyweight jazzmen Elvin Jones and Jimmy Lyons, Eddie Gale's new octet expanded on the bold foundation of Ghetto Music to build Black Rhythm Hap..
terry reid
silver white light
Terry Reid briefly returned from his self-imposed exile in the US to play the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 with extraordinary results. Silver White ..
charles wright & the 103rd street rhythm band
you 're so beautiful
This is first time on CD for this 1971 Warner Bros. soul classic. Steeped in call-and-response revivalism this amazing lost album brings the funk and ..
allen ginsberg
first blues
Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg was also a singer/songwiter who was encouraged to write and record by none other than Bob Dylan, who took Allen in..
patty waters
you thrill me: a musical odyssey 1962-1979
You Thrill Me is all previously unreleased recordings spanning 20 years of this unique vocalist who recorded for ESP-Disk' in the '60s. There's severa..
melvin van peebles
what the....you mean i can't sing?!
Melvin Van Peebles was a Renaissance man of the '70s -a director/ producer of groundbreaking cinema (Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song, Watermelon Man)..
lou johnson
sweet southern soul
The great Lou Johnson is truly mysterious figure in soul music. Having recorded only 10 singles and two albums in his ten-year career, Sweet Southern ..
sonny & linda sharrock
paradise
Sonny Sharrock's last album of the '70s is also one of his most musically challenging. Fusing consistently innovative guitar work with Linda Sharrock'..
jack palance
palance
Legendary actor Jack Palance's only musical recording, originally released on Warner/Reprise, finds him tackling 11 country-rock tunes in the vein of ..
john simon
john simon's album
Although best known for producing the first two albums by The Band(Music from Big Pink and The Band), John Simon also produced BigBrother and the Hold..
joseph spence
happy all the time
Happy All The Time captures one of folk's greatest guitarists at his prime. Spence's 1964 Elektra debut with legendary producer Paul Rothchild at the ..
william s. fischer
circles
Highly regarded conductor/arranger William S. Fischer stepped into the limelight on his 1971 solo debut, Circles. The man who worked with artists as d..