06 Jan 2022
Otis Redding – 1966 – The Soul Album

Otis Redding’s talent began to surge, across songs and their stylesand absorbing them, with the recording of The Soul Album. In contrast to The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, which was an advance over its predecessor but still a body of 12 songs of varying styles...
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03 Jan 2016
Otis Redding – 1965 – Otis Blue

Outside of an anthology or greatest hits package, this is the Otis Redding disc to own. Eight of the eleven selections are cover tunes, but Otis and crew attack the material with such passion and precision that it escapes the usual haphazard feel of a...
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20 Oct 2013
Otis Redding ‎- 1964 – Pain In My Heart

 Main Review by AMG Rip, Research, Posting and additional info’s by Nikos Like most R&B albums of the early 1960s, Otis Redding’s 1964 debut was a haphazard mixture of the artist’s contemporary hits (“These Arms of Mine,” “Pain in My Heart“), B-sides (“Something Is Worrying Me,”...
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19 Mar 2024
Sam & Dave – 1968 – I Thank You

  Issued in 1968 after the mega hits, “Hold On, I’m Comin‘” and “Soul Man“, Sam & Dave became interested in the emerging funk sounds happening throughout the R&B scene. Thankfully, so was the writing team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, who wrote one...
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19 Jul 2023
O.V. Wright – 1978 – The Bottom Line

Second in a series of three Hi studio albums, O.V. Wright was finally allowed to record for Willie Mitchell‘s own label, since his former employer, Don Robey, had sold Backbeat to ABC in 1973. As was the case with Al Green, Mitchell had developed a longtime friendship with Wright,...
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03 Dec 2022
Prana People – 1977 – Prana People

Since the mid 60’s Tunde-Ra and Taharqa Aleem have propelled to the Hall of Fame Attention and recognition as writers on “Hooked on Your Love”, ” Confusion” and their outstanding 1984 hit, the Paradise Garage Anthem, written, produced and recorded on their Independent Label NIA...
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06 Aug 2022
Jackie Wilson – 1967 – Higher And Higher

Jackie Wilson was the most gifted singer of his generation. Unfortunately, his arranger at Brunswick Records, Dick Jacobs, often saddled the man’s force-of-nature vocals with obtrusive orchestration and cloying female back-up voices. Not to mention the bullshit songs Wilson frequently did, a number of them...
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15 May 2022
The Bar-Kays – 1978 – Money Talks

The Bar Kays formed as Otis Redding’s back-up band… all but two of the original line up perished in the plane crash that also took Redding’s life… The band was reformed by trumpeter James Cauley and bassist James Alexander, and like Booker T and the...
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20 Oct 2021
Various – 1968 – This is Soul

This Is Soul (Atlantic 643 301UK Edition)  This compilation album was originally released in the UK by Atlantic Records in 1968 and has been much loved by soul fans around the world for the past 50+ years.  This official 50th anniversary edition was released in...
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08 Feb 2021
Willie Hutch ‎- 1970 – Season For Love

A monumental force firmly rooted in the soul canon, Willie Hutch is most notable for recording two of the best Blaxploitation soundtracks, The Mack and Foxy Brown. Yet his legacy is much greater. Outside of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Hutch was arguably...
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