Lee Fields & The Expressions Big Crown Vaults Vol. 1 Big Crown Records “Genre: Soul/ Funk” this download states, and ain’t that the truth. Field’s [...]
Dr. John Gumbo Blues Cleopatra Records Dr. John was a raspy-voiced, early ‘60s, New Orleans born, rock ‘n’ roll and R&B guitarist and arranger, late-’60s night-tripping voodoo [...]
Junior Wells Blues Brothers Cleopatra Records Blues legend Junior Wells was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1934 and died early in 1998. A powerful singer and master harmonica [...]
Big Sugar Hemi-Vision (Deluxe Edition) Universal Music A quarter of a century on from its original release, the platinum-selling Hemi-Vision gets the big “deluxe” [...]
Squirrel Nut Zippers Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon Southern Broadcasting Jimbo Mathus and his crew continue to convert and subvert vintage jazz on this set, [...]
The Wailers One World Sony Music The Wailers–indivisible from Bob Marley of course, but the band has always been about creative musicians, needing not only to make a living [...]
Lee Fields Let’s Get A Groove On Daptone “How soul music used to be back in the day/When it was all rough, yeah, and nasty and genuine!”, sings Lee Fields on the [...]
Swamp Dogg Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Joyful Noise/Pioneer Works Press Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams (Jr.) began recording at the age of 12 in 1954 and has gone [...]
Various Artists Down In Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records VP Records After the death of Bob Marley in 1981, international interest in Jamaican music [...]
Bedouin Soundclash Mass Easy Star/Mr. Bongo/Sony Canada Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair are back with the first Bedouin Soundclash album since 2010’s Light The Horizon. I’m not [...]
Common Let Love Loma Vista Recordings Actor, author, motivational speaker, and rapper Common showcases his positive attitude by examining all kinds of love on Let Love. Formerly known as [...]
Lil Berete Icebreaker New Gen/XL Recordings Things are moving fast for young Toronto rapper Lil Berete, with some strong singles over the last year or so now followed by his debut [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat 2 Universal Music Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty (“The King Of The Teens”, “King of The Youth”) has the admirable ability not to take himself too seriously, but [...]
Freddie McGregor Bobby Bobylon: Deluxe Edition Studio One This is one of those classic sets that should be on everyone’s playlist; it is almost inevitably [...]
Juicy J Rubba Band Business Kemosabe/Taylor Gang/Sony Music Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Juicy J, the rap veteran who dropped his first solo album in 2002, while he was [...]
Downchild Something I’ve Done Linus Entertainment A Canadian institution of almost fifty years standing, their first single was released back in 1973, “Flip Flop [...]
Little Miss Higgins My Home, My Heart Independent Little Miss Higgins, a.k.a. Jolene Higgins, originally out of Brooks, Alberta and now living in rural Manitoba with her [...]
A$AP Mob Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 – Too Cozy A$AP Worlwide/RCA A lot of people have been waiting eagerly for this, the second studio album from A$AP Mob, and although it [...]