2 LP 1. Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up 2. Marlena Shaw – California Soul 3. James Brown – the Payback Pt. 1 4. Bill Withers – Use Me 5. Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love 6. Sly & the Family Stone – Stand! 7. Bobby Womack – Im a Midnight Mover 8. The Delfonics […]
Legendary singer Peggy Lee was one of the finest interpreters of popular song in the post-war era • Great value 109-track 4-CD set comprising selected titles from 25 Capitol and Decca album releases during these years • Features performances with Nelson Riddle, Billy May, George Shearing, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Dave Barbour, Benny Carter, Gordon […]
James Warren stars in this triple bill of Western dramas. In Code of the West (1947) Bob Wade (Warren) takes on corrupt saloon owner Boyd Carter (Raymond Burr) and his henchmen who are trying to remove Ruth Stockton (Debra Alden) and her father (Harry Harvey) from their ranch after it emerges that a railroad will […]
“Man in Black may be the 38th album by country singer Johnny Cash, but it is definitely one of the most memorable albums in his discography. Man in Black is perhaps one of Cashs most political albums. The title refers to Cashs tendency to wear only black during his live shows. This was to reflect […]
Johnny Cash was the first artist to fuse the sounds of country, gospel and rockabilly with dramatic storytelling. He wrote moving songs of love and loss, and his voice was not only unique in the field of country & western, but in all of popular music. This essential CD features two of Cashs finest albums: […]
Recorded before the pandemic shuttered the world’s recording studios, the chemistry on ‘Dear America’ is palpable, with each musician playing with the emotional commitment demanded by the material. In November 2019, the bandleader hit Brooklyn’s Studio G to track the album with producer/co-writer Glen Scott, along with a studio band featuring the talismanic drummer Steve […]
Fitzgerald was sometimes considered a poor “libretto” singer, more interested in swing and harmony than in the emotional weight of a song. That was generally left to singers like Billie Holiday perminently, or Carmen McRae and Betty Carter. But with Porter, she was dealing with an artist whose rhythmic sophistication equalled her own and these […]
Though there were other integrated 50s vocal groups, The Crests demonstrated that musical and racial harmony went hand in hand. From the liner notes by Bill Dahl, “Several integrated 1950s vocal groups preceded them, notably The Meadowlarks and Dell-Vikings, but this young quartet from the lower East Side of Manhattan took the concept to the […]
