A Letter To Myself is like the rest of the Chi-Lites’ output although this one failed to receive the commercial success of their earlier work. The two best tracks…
By 1974 the Delfonics weren’t kicking out the hits like they were earlier in their career, mostly due to the absence of Thom Bell who played such a large role…
After playing for years on the Rock and Soul circuit in eastern Canada, New York, and England, Rick James finally made a hit solo career in the late 1970s. Borrowing…
Irma Thomas was one of the many fine products to come out of New Orleans. Both sides of this 45 were recorded with Rick Hall of Muscle Shaols’ Fame Studios.…
I have definitely been coming up on a lot of things on my want list lately, and this I found cheap as well. Can You Feel It was S.O.U.L.‘s second album. It features…
Dead On The Heavy Funk is a collection of Brown’s work from the mid-1970s, just when his compositions began falling off. Five of the nine tracks are from 1975,…
The Chakachas were a group of Belgian studio musicians. Their self-titled LP was their second after their big hit with Jungle Fever. Unlike that record however, this…
This is the second Merry Clayton record I’ve purchased. I think this one is much better than the other one I have. The album opens with Country Road which has…
Dennis Edwards got his start with the Temptations, who he joined and then quit several times. He first joined the group in 1968 to take over for David Ruffin and sang…
Eddie Floyd was one of the great male Soul singers that Stax had in its stable. Floyd was born in Alabama but grew up in Detroit where he helped form the Falcons,…
Mel & Tim were a long time soul singing duo from St. Louis. They eventually got their break when they met Gene Chandler and released several albums on Bamboo and…
This was the album that put Luther Ingram on the charts. The title track is one of those great love songs that just make you sing along with Ingram’s emotional…
If you didn’t see Curtis Knight on the cover of this album you could easily mistake Down In The Village as the product of a garage band from the 60s. The record…
On Woga, keys player Charles Kynard found a nice groove. There’s the funky Soul-Jazz numbers like Little Ghetto Boy with sharp horn stabs, the more laid back…
It sounds almost impossible, but on Boogaloo Beat, Sandy Nelson actually found some Soul. Maybe it was from the three girls on the cover, or the two chicks he was…
The record comes in a gatefold cover with some cool pics of Eldee Young and Redd Holt getting down. Most of the first side is mellow jazz with typical covers like…
The Brothers Johnson were a family affair from LA who got their start backing up the likes of the Supremes. Quincy Jones got them a record contract of their own after…
The Commodores self-titled album is the one that contained their biggest hit Brick House. Their follow up slow jam hit song Easy is also on here. There’s also…
Sonny Okosuns was an Afro-Pop musician from Nigeria, which is where this LP was recorded. His singing isn’‘t the strongest, so the best cuts are the ones…
Bill Black got his start as the bassist for Elvis Presley. He later started a solo career and released a slew of instrumental albums on Memphis’ Hi label. Almost…
