12 Jun 2021
Bobby Lyle – 1978 – New Warrior

 Bobby Lyle was the pianist with Young Holt Unlimited and played with Jimi Hendricks, booked to go on the road with him just ahead of the untimely death. In 1974 he moved to Los Angeles and went on the road with Sly & the Family...
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18 Sep 2020
Cameo – 1979 – Secret Omen

This is one of Cameo’s most essential albums-probably one of the best they ever made. It has all the makings of the perfect old school funk album. It’s filled to the brim with energetic jams, funky dance grooves, finger-pickin’style guitar, throbbin’ bass lines and of...
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02 Sep 2020
Isaac Hayes – 1971 – Shaft

Both on movie screens and in the charts, November 1971 was all about the new phenomenon of blaxploitation. With black consciousness reaching new levels of confidence and Afro-American culture more influential than ever, filmgoers had already enjoyed the trailblazing They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! the year before, followed...
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20 Dec 2018
Curtis Mayfield – 1970 – Curtis

This is undoubtedly one of the most important albums of seventies soul. Besides the awesome opener, Curtis isn’t making stuff as funky as he does on Superfly, but I feel this is about on a par. This is probably the most sophisticated Chicago soul I’ve...
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23 Nov 2018
Frederick Knight – 1977 – Knight Kap

Frederick Knight has the thankless pop monicker of being a ‘one-hit wonder’, scoring huge in 1973 with the catchy “I’ve Been Lonely for So Long”. Soul buffs like myself, however, know that Knight was more than that. Much more. A prolific writer, musician, producer and...
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26 Feb 2017
Leon Ware – 1976 – Musical Massage

Amazing stuff! Arguably Leon Ware’s greatest record – and one of the greatest Motown records of the 70’s! The record is a beautiful set of interwoven mellow soul tracks, recorded right on the heels of Marvin Gaye‘s I Want You album, which was written and...
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26 Sep 2016
Webster Lewis – 1978 – Touch My Love

Webster Lewis was a fine pianist, clarinetist, conductor and arranger. Although born in Baltimore, Webster Lewis moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1970’s. Prior to his move, Webster played the live circuit, cutting ‘Live At Club 7’ on Counterpoint Records, a three track live album that...
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09 Jan 2016
Bobby Hebb – 1970 – Love Games

The voice and pen that crafted the multi-format standard “Sunny” took four years to create as exquisite an album of adult contemporary R&B as you’ll find. This was recorded a full year before Lou Rawls would hit with the Bobby Hebb/Sandy Baron composition “A Natural...
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08 Jan 2016
The Real Thing – 1976 – The Real Thing

Dominated by the monster hit and U.K. chart-topper “You to Me Are Everything“, truly one of the benchmark moments in the development of mid-’70s U.K. soul, the Real Thing’s fall 1976 debut arrived hot on the heels of their second major smash, “Can’t Get by...
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