Back for a second helping, I have more music-flavoured items for you this week covering vinyl news, a book review and vinyl reviews VINYL NEWS BIG NIGHT An original motion picture…
A (hopefully) regular new music feature for you is this week’s Music Magazine. Featuring Vinyl News, a book review and something CD or vinyl flavoured in review terms. Hope you like…
Vinyl news & reviews for September, 2021. There’s 23 albums in this basic video version. Featuring rock, jazz, singer-song-writers and more A mixture of vinyl reviews and vinyl news, even the…
A total of 12 items for this CD section covers various genres and combines extended news items and longer-form reviews, including mastering comments and…a surprise RYLAND ANGEL & DAVE MERRILL Title: Chant…
Covering 12 items over a host of musical genres – 11 CD sets and one surprise package… Be warned, this is a long video that covers news and reviews and somewhere…
A total of 15 discs for this CD section covers various genres and combines extended news items and longer-form reviews, including mastering comments JAMIE COE Title: Summertime Symphony Label: Jasmine If there…
This week, in issue 16, an even split between CD and vinyl for you CD ROCK AND ROLL VIXENS No.1 & No.2 Title: 25 Black Women Singer, Movers & Shakers Label:…
Another four CDs for you in this new round up including Jewel, Pantera, Edenbridge and Lee Andrews. Paul Rigby is handy with a laser. Been a little while since the last…
This week, in issue 10, I offer you recent releases for review. There’s mostly vinyl in this episode but there’s a couple of excellent CDs in there too Look our for…
This week, in issue 12, I thought I’d do a vinyl special for you. Ten albums for you to check out SPARKS Title: A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip Label: BMG I…
This week, in issue 10, I offer you eight recent releases for review, splitting the content mostly into vinyl with two CDs tagged on the end ON VINYL CALIGULA’S HORSE Title:…
This week, in issue 4, I offer you a round baker’s dozen of recent releases for review, splitting the content into CD and Vinyl ON VINYL SUPERCAR Title: Original Television Soundtrack …
Title: Kent-Modern’s Black Music Legacy 1963-1972 Label: Kent This label was situated in 5810 South Normandie in Los Angeles, next to the clubs of South Central Los Angeles and not far…
Title: Everything is Everything Label: Speakers Corner Frustrating. That’s Donny Hathaway. That this soul man, with a smooth voice, an accomplished interpreter of the protest song, a singer who some believed…
Title: The Soul of a Bell Label: Speakers Corner Flip over this new reissues and take a quick look at the 11 tracks listed on the rear and you’ll notice that…
Title: Gonna Make it Alone Label: Atomicat If there is one organisation to take advantage of a fad, fashion or, indeed, controversy then its a record label. They’ve been doing it…
Title: The CBS Singles Collection 1982-1994 Label: Edsel He offered a combination of soul and pop with an extended talent. Although he sang many covers, he also wrote a fair amount…
Title: Original Hits and Rarities From the Belgium Popcorn Scene Label: Jasmine Don’t be too perturbed if this one raises an eyebrow of ignorance. I wouldn’t say that this scene –…
Title: The Rhythm, The Blues, The Hot Guitar Label: Koko Mojo Koko what? Koko Mojo is a ‘division’ of Rockstar Records and Rockstar Records, which was originally founded in 1979, became…
Title: I’m Funky Now Label: Westbound You might not know Melvin Sparks but does Grant Green tinkle any bells? If you know the soul jazz guitar of Green then Sparks’ style,…
Title: Rockin’ Down The Highway Label: Floating World An intriguing one this, because The Doobie Brothers recorded this double CD affair in 1996 as a benefit concert for the Wildlife Conservation…
Title: The Percy Sledge Way Label: Bear Family A pioneer of country soul but known more for his deep soul vocal delivery, Sledge will be forever known for his big soul…
Title: 94 East featuring Prince Label: Charly “I grew up on the borderline, I never grew upon one particular culture… Minneapolis is so far behind other major cities in the country,…
Label: Kent Both of these labels were started by Al Sears, who himself had been a musician for over 30 years, playing sax for a range of outfits across the USA…
Title: Modern Soul 2 1969-1976 Label: Kent Mainstream was a strange combination of success and failure, a rich source of black music that did very well for itself but a label…
Title: Kansas City 1953-1962 Sides Label: Soul Jam He’s known for two tracks: Kansas City, the title track of this CD, and Let’s Work Together but he’s more than that, much…