R&B

INCLUDING 4 UNRELEASED BONUS SONGS! This is a band project from the late 1960s with a very young Bobby Marin, a leading figure in the invention of BOOGALOO music, a cocktail of Latin music, Rhythm & Blues, Soul and Rock'n'Roll oft he day clearly...

Included on "What It Is", one of Luv N'Haight's earliest Rare Groove compilations this Deep Funk classic has been a favorite by DJ's and collectors alike. Making the rounds in the early '90s and even getting a sample nod by The Gravediggaz, it's now...

In Winter of 2009, Remy LBO dropped everything to move to a cabin in the middle of the wilderness. He created this album with just a few instruments and without the use of modern synths and effects. Using elements of 70's Jazz & Funk, he created "Umpqua...

In the wake of their new album Expansions Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band drop another must have two-sider. On the A side they take on the J DIlla produced Slum Village club banger "Raise It Up" and give it the BRSB treatment. SV fans will lose their shit...

In the wake of their hit, 'Funky Worm', the Ohio Players quit Westbound Records and keyboard and vocal wizard Junie quit the Ohio Players. He immediately set out on a solo career that was less commercial than his erstwhile colleagues, but musically...

In the wake of A Man and a Woman, whose original soundtrack revealed Francis Lai to the world in 1966, the composer immersed himself with delight in the rhythms of his times, surfing on a psychedelic tsunami of white-hot Jerks and Shakes. With...

In the late '70s, three do-right women from Cleveland forged a brief partnership with Ohio's everything man, Lou Ragland. Unlike the prefabricated singing combos of the day, Lily Pearson, Annette Warren, and Avetta Henry swapped lead duties as situation...

In the late 60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of it's black audience and rock's intellectualisation was eating up it's support amongst college students. The usual story told is that jazz split between those who went out and those...

In the fateful year of 2020, Vincent John and Maxwell Perla of Eraserhood Sound were fortunate enough to stumble upon the score to the long lost, never completed 1974 Italian film Riblle Di Mare. It was not long before they realized they had discovered...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have come...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music - a style that few musicians have come...

In the 1950s and 60s, the Cincinnati recording scene was dominated by Syd Nathan's King label, whose R&B catalogue made it a major player among post-war independents. In it's shadow was Fraternity, a smaller concern launched by Harry Carlson in 1954. The...