1. (I Just Can't Help Myself) I Don't Want Nobody Else
2. Brown-eyed lady
3. gotta get closer to you
4. satin doll
5. until tomorrow
6. alley-wind song
7. can't catch the trane
8. bowlin' green
Part of the classic trilogy of Charles Stepney-produced Terry Callier albums on Cadet of which "Occasional Rain" and "What Color is Love" are the other two.
Originally released on Talking Loud in 1998, this was Callier's comeback after his seminal early 1970s Chess/Cadet releases which had attained cult status...
'The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier' (originally on Prestige Records) conveys the promise and power of Callier in his earliest days. It’s a document...
Includes the killer version of "Summertime" and the massive soul r'n'b tune My Love's A Monster. Super-rare Cadet/Chess album from vocalist Clea Bradford!
Classic Richard Evans production at the mighty Chess Records from 1967. featuring mainstay of the label Ramsey Lewis in full flow along with Cleveland...
Killer funky jazz instrumentals from '67 from Chicago group based around organist Odell Brown. A wicked album of soul jazz - loads of soul covers and originals...
Wicked spaced-out Charles Stepney/Richard Evans production on Cadet from 1969. Features a great version of "Whenever, Wherever" as also played by Rotary...
Ethio-jazz hero Mulatu Astake and His Ethiopian Quintet "Afro-Latin Soul" album from 1966! As the title suggest this is more leaning towards the Latin-soul...
Juxtaposing the musical talents of vocalists Bomber, Wrangler, Killer and Small Island Pride, the art of the 1950s Trinidadian calypso resonates on this...
Rare groove classic! Bernard Wright was part of the Tom Browne/Don Blackman crew that emerged from a musical academy in Queens NY in the late seventies...
Mighty Sparrow's First Flight reflects his post-World War II Trinidadian world of bravado and high rhetoric, in which violence of tongue and hand, the...
Recorded in Trinidad. "And now ladies and gentlemen...Lord Melody's coming to knock you out now." The audience roars as the calypsonian king boasts about...
Soul Jazz Records' journey into Dub and beyond, released to coincide with the new DVD film. Featuring an array of both legendary and current artists and...
According to the original liner notes, this selection of 1930s Trinidadian calypso is "colorful and exuberant and richly expressive and often hilariously...
Geat compilation of Calypso from Trinidad and Tobago! Why "Hellish"? The liner notes explain that it's in part because of the very apparent "pear-shaped...
Debut 12" from London singer/songwriter Andrew Ashong on Sound Signature!
Deeply grooving, sweet and soulful, organic tracks with extra production on...
This compilation is an introduction to the golden age of calypso and to some of it's greatest exponents. The genre is known for its incisive social commentary,...
One of Detroit house youngest sons delivers a double 12" on his own Wild Oats imprint. Described by Kyle as a "fusion of original work, sample tracks,...
This is not the glossy, occasionally dross calypso that entertains tourists or wins Calypso King competitions. It is more rustic in flavor, speaks more...