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May 10 2013

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Wayne Carter & Organ Twisters - Wayne Carter & Organ Twisters (MOOTREY'S STUDIO)

Written By 1 - May 10 2013

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Wayne Carter was born in Carol County, Tennessee in 1936. When he was around eight years old, his father bought a piano for the family. Wayne taught himself to play songs he learned from the radio. By the time he was fifteen he left home to play in the Buster "B.W." Morrison Band. They played in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois. During the following years Wayne played with the Nat Story Band and the Billy Ray Band. In the early 1960s Wayne and family moved to Decatur, Illinois where he bought an A 100 Hammond Organ and started up his own band: Wayne Carter & Organ Twisters. During the late 1960s Wayne joined drummer Virgil "Pat" Patton as a duo called Wayne Carter Duo. They played on the road for five or six years when Wayne finally bought his own B3 Hammond Organ. On a trip back from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Wayne picked up the yellow pages and called a local studio to arrange a recording session. The Mootrey's studio was a "custom" studio, owned and operated by Chet Mootrey. Nobody knows exactly who the Organ Twisters were for Peter In Or Out b/w Let's Run Away From The World, except that it was an eleven-piece, all black band. The line-up on Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo b/w Mad Mouth Woman is a bit clearer: Virgil Patton on drums, Luther Taylor on tenor sax, and Wayne on organ. Wayne was a Supper Club musician, which meant, "Funk was not permitted." This standard precluded him from selling his record at gigs. So he tucked his records away, handing out a few to friends and family without any professional distribution. Wayne remained active in the music business and has played in several different band projects. Today, he is playing with a group called the Dan Rivero Band. Limited to 555 copies - properly mastered from original 45s - officially licensed.

Tracklisting & Soundclips: 1. Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo 2. Mad Mouth Woman 3. Let's Run Away from the World 4. Peter in or Out 5. That's Cancer 6. Trock Rock

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April 25 2013

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Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love (DAPTONE)

Written By 1 - April 25 2013

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Charles Bradley will release his second album Victim of Love on April 5. The follow up to his highly-praised debut album No Time For Dreaming will be released on Daptone Records imprint Dunham Records. Look for additional details on the new album in early 2012. The 64-year old “Screaming Eagle of Soul” has been championed by critics and fans alike. Released in January 2011, No Time For Dreaming became one of the best selling independent records of the year and landed on Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of 2011 as well as making year end best lists in GQ, Esquire, SPIN, MOJO, Paste Magazine, Mother Jones and more. Bradley also performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with Sharon Jones & Grace Potter, was featured on multiple episode of The Last Call with Carson Daly and, earlier this year, performed on the BBC’s Later…with Jools Holland. Since his breakout performance at SXSW 2011, where he landed on the SXSWorld magazine cover following the festival, Charles has performed to sold-out audiences and festivals all over North America, Europe, Australia and more. Festival appearances include Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, Montreux, Roskilde, Flow Festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Vienna Jazz Festival, Calgary Folk Festival and Winnipeg Folk Festival. He was featuring on cover Pollstar earlier this year and the 2012 Inaugural A2IM Libera Awards named him “Road Warrior of the Year.”  Track List & Sound Clips:
01 Strictly Reserved For You clip
02 You Put The Flame On It clip
03 Let Love Stand A Chance clip
04 Victim Of Love clip
05 Love Bug Blues clip
06 Dusty Blue clip
07 Confusion clip
08 Where Do We Go From Here clip
09 Crying In The Chapel clip
10 Hurricane clip
11 Through The Storm clip

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April 23 2013

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V/A - Hipshakers Vol 1 & 2 (VAMPISOUL)

Written By 1 - April 23 2013

Available ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Hipshakers Vol. 1 2LP here, Hipshakers Vol. 2, 2LP here

 
A special Record Store Day release.First volume of our new "R&B Hipshakers" series, featuring rockin' R&B and early soul. A compilation of tracks from 1956 to 1967 by essential artists such as Hank Ballard, Johnny Watson, The "5" Royales, Freddy King, Eugene Church… 20 terrific dance cuts selected by genre expert Mr Fine Wine, from WFMU's Downtown Soulville. Several titles reissued for the first time. I wasn't even close to being a twinkle in my dad's horn-rimmed eye in 1961. But I have to conclude that there's something special about that year for me. When compiling Vampisoul's dip into King Records' deep, deep rhythm-and-blues vaults, I realized that I'm a sucker for the sounds of '61. And, well, '62 too. Not that other years slightly earlier and later aren't represented as well, but… fully a quarter of the tracks herein are from 1961. What happened then? President Kennedy happened then, for one thing, inaugurated on January 20. Also: chimps and their perhaps marginally more civilized human cousins in space; Roger Maris eclipsing the Babe, albeit with a conceptual asterisk; Jets vs Sharks on the West Side; the Cold War in full swing; a hot war in Vietnam just starting to smolder, though few Americans had even heard of the place yet. And brilliant black musicians making timeless records for a Cincinnati, Ohio family of labels - gibbling and gobbling down Broadway, implanting indelible, stinging guitar lines in the public consciousness, and making folks do the ginger snap like there was no tomorrow, which I'm sure there didn't always seem to be. This collection of genuine King and Federal R&B sides encompasses crazy dances (the impossible-but-highly-entertaining-to-picture 'Slummer The Slum'; 'Posin'', which beat Madonna to the voguing punch by some 30 years); intense guitar instrumentals (what can you say about a label employing so many superstar guitar slingers that even Freddie King probably has to fight for a spot in one's top 3, what with Johnny Watson, Ike Turner, Mickey Baker and Lowman Pauling staking pretty strong claims for inclusion themselves?); inspired forays into mind-altering whimsy ('Hog Killin' Time', the first of a trilogy of swine-tingling masterpieces by Eddie Kirk, along with 'The Hawg' on Volt and 'The Grunt' on Fortune); the timeless ode to male horniness 'One Zippy Zam'; and hook-filled, honest-to-goodness love songs (try to get 'I Don't Know About You' out of your head - or your heart). We can argue endlessly about the appropriateness of one's mom teaching one to monkey. If it's polite, sober propriety you're after, look elsewhere. For a raucous and potentially life-changing R&B dance party in a box, though, you'll find TEACH ME TO MONKEY to be just the thing. Mr Fine Wine WFMU's "Downtown Soulville" show
Roy Milton
Tracks list
1. Gibble, Gobble (Willie Wright)
2. Broadway (Hank Ballard)
3. What Makes You So Cold (Lulu Reed)
4. My Nerves (Little Willie John)
5. I Don't Know About You (Lloyd Nolan)
6. Slummer The Slum (The "5" Royales)
7. Where You At Jack (Little Mummy)
8. That's It Man (The Valentines)
9. Mind Your Own Business (Eugene Church)
10. Regardless (Charles Brown)
11. Here It Is Right Here (El Pauling)
12. One Zippy Zam (Roy Milton & His Orchestra)
13. Texas Oil (Freddy King)
14. Mr Astronaut (The Drivers)
15. Your Well Ran Dry (Carol Ford
16. Do The Ginger Snap (Little Bobby Moore)
17. Mom, Won't You Teach Me To Monkey (Little Emmett Sutton)
18. Uncle Willie's Got A Thing Going On (Willie Dixon)
19. Posin' (Johnny Watson)
20. Hog Killin' Time (Eddie Kirk)

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April 18 2013

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K-Def - One Man Band LP (REDEFINTION)

Written By 1 - April 18 2013

Available Here on LP

Side A 1. Funky Fridays 2. Dark Soul 3. I’M Chillin 4. Touching Realness 5. Street Jazz Side B 1. Ghetto’S Groove 2. Soul Paper 3. K Comes Thru 4. Nj Dodgers 5. Lovely Woman 6. Watching The Clouds 7. I Seen A Blind Bat (Bonus) / All Songs Produced, Mixed And Mastered By K-Def /

The phrase “producer’s producer” gets thrown around in the world of music and, quite candidly, it’s a very nebulous phrase and one difficult to accurately describe. We hear other producers mention a specific producer as inspiration, but they are never asked to further embellish what the phrase means. It’s like being asked to describe the color of water in ten words or less -not easily accomplished, but assumed everyone can do it.

K-Def’s latest endeavor on Redefinition Records, One Man Band, continues his self-reinvention combining software with his impeccable ear for music to craft –or re-craft- many familiar records using his signature style. Stevie Wonder, A Tribe Called Quest, and 24-Carat Black, to name a few, receive a face-lift while still remaining true to the original sound that forms the genesis of this project. The concept is simple: giving classic records an updated feel for new audiences to enjoy and appreciate them. K-Def is not flipping the same samples or replaying the notes and chords in a mimicking fashion as the originals, but recreating and re-interpolating them with live, unsampled sounds, which he has been honing for years now. K is producing other producer’s records and, in turn, putting his special touch on it. He is taking the art of digging and music appreciation and applying it to the world of software by using technology for our audio delight. The intricacy of each record oozes with care and an attention to detail that becomes immediately apparent with the initial bars of the first song.

Herein lies the simple genius that makes K-Def a “producer’s producer.” The years spent crafting classics, listening to records, and absorbing sounds has allowed him to develop his own sonic tapestry, which is best exemplified here on this excellent record. He re-orchestrates another composer’s classic record and develops movements, crescendos, and transitions that would leave any music connoisseur grinning from ear-to-ear. “Funky Fridays” epitomizes the strides K-Def has made en route to remodeling his sound with the marriage of his production prowess and technology. This gem defines the project and raises the bar for other producers paying homage to those whose shoulders they now stand. Within K-Def’s boastful canon of hit records, “Funky Fridays” stands as an opus that deserves its rightful spot, if for nothing more than marking a new level in which he has successfully attained, daring to stretch the boundaries of Hip Hop music.

Words may never be able to accurately describe the phrase “producer’s producer” due to ambiguous nature of the verbiage, and maybe words were never meant to. However, K-Def’s One Man Band allows for a musical definition to fully emerge and take shape, transcending the verbal world and taking root in a sonic one. Here, our senses take over and allow the music to do what it was meant to do: live, breathe, and morph into something beyond explanation, a true redefinition.

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April 13 2013

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Lady - Lady LP/CD (TRUTH & SOUL)

Written By 1 - April 13 2013

Available Here on CD, Here on LP

All you have to do is listen to Lady once, and you'll remember - in case you forgot-why they call it soul music. The honesty, the aching sweetness, the raw power of these singers and their songs will remind you that nothing can move you as much, or touch you as deeply, as two women with amazing voices singing in tight harmony.

Lady is the new collaborative project by Terri Walker and Nicole Wray. This unexpected transatlantic pairing was born out of a shared love of soul music and the resulting album - also entitled Lady - is a modern day interpretation of the classic sounds pioneered by labels such as Stax, Atlantic, and Motown. Lady unites the mellowness and pop flair of 60s soul with the driving beat of hip-hop, and the silky rhythms of modern R&B. These two powerful voices harmonize to create a fresh sound that tells the stories of growing up and never giving up, of love and friendship, of yearning and losing, bad girls and good hearts.

The lead single Money offers an overdue female perspective on the gold digger dynamic and has been accumulating plays and plaudits since emerging online. Other highlights include the selfassured strut of Get Ready, the dramatic, piano-driven Karma, Walker and Wray's tender tribute to their mothers in Sweet Lady and the heart-racing raunch of Good Lovin'. Lady's vocals switch smoothly from solos to seamless harmonies and are underpinned throughout by Leon Michels and Jeff Silverman's luscious production.

Better know as Truth & Soul, Michels & Silverman write, produce and run a Brooklyn-based studio and label with a growing reputation. The multi-talented duo's credits include writing for Adele, production for Lee Fields & The Expressions and both writing and production on Aloe Blacc's Good Things album and its worldwide hit single, I Need A Dollar. Lady is an authentic original, drawing from the past to infuse the present with new power. Prepare to take your hat off to Lady. Get ready to fall in love. There has never been, there will never be, anything else like it.

Track List & Soundclips:

  01   Tell The Truth   clip  
  02   Money   clip  
  03   Hold On   clip  
  04   Get Ready   clip  
  05   Karma   clip  
  06   Sweet Lady   clip  
  07   Please Don't Do It Again   clip  
  08   Good Lovin   clip  
  09   Habit   clip  
  10   If You Wanna Be My Man   clip  
  11   Waiting On You   clip  

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