Deep Tracks 80

1. A Smile Can't Hide A Broken Heart-William Bell
2. Memphis Underground-Herbie Mann
3. There Is A Green Hill-Charlie Chaplin
4. Listen To The Music-The Isley Brothers
5. Mama Ndiyalila - Miriam Makeba
6. Guide And Protect-Albert Griffiths & The Gladiatiors
7. I'll Be Going to Heaven Sometimes-Earl Scruggs
8. Got To Keep Moving-Boby King & Terry Evans
9. Fool’s Paradise-Willie Nelson & Dr John
10. Sad and Lonesome Feeling-Jimmy Ruffin
11. Always There-Willie Bobo
12. Check It Out-Bobby Womack
13. Brown's Ferry Blues-Kenny Baker & Josh Graves
14. Yako Aba-Dr. K Gyasi & The Noble Kings Dance Band
15. Encouraging Words-Billy Preston
16. Reggae Machine-Willie Lindo
17. Aloko Party-Manu Dibango
18. I've Got A Feeling-Junior Byles
19. Made To Love-Walter Heath
20. Steppin' Out-Steel Pulse
21. I Saw The Light-The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys

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Herbie Mann is without a doubt one of the most important jazz flutists of the 20th century. I know of him because Duane Allman added some guitar solos to one of his Atlantic albums. Mann was adept at just about all genres: blues, bossa nova, bop, funk, avante garde, even reggae and disco. Memphis Underground is one of his best known pieces and features a blistering guitar solo from Sonny Sharrock.

Willie Lindo played rhythm and lead guitar for just about everyone that entered a studio in Jamaica for 25 years. He only recorded a couple of solo albums that often played off of his success playing with Bob Marley. Reggae Machine is from the mid-70's. It demonstrates that even though guitar is almost always a rhythm instrument in reggae it can be a lead instrument in the right hands.

Deep Tracks 79

1. That’s Life – James Brown
2. Nadia Soleil-Théo Blaise Kounkou
3. The Fuzz-Roy Ayers
4. Roll Your Own-Larry Rice
5. Country Living-The Stylistics
6. Hey Now-Ray Charles
7. I'm a Hi-Ballin' Daddy-Tiny Bradshaw
8. Got To Lose Your Way-The Haggis Horns
9. Raindrops-The Pioneers
10. New Day, New World Comin'-Billy Paul
11. Monkey Man-The Specials
12. Aprieta-Joe Cuba
13. Junkshop-The New Apocalypse
14. Time to Get Down-The O'Jays
15. Down Here On The Ground-Grant Green
16. The Hen-Louis Chachere
17. Step It Up & Go-Kenny Baker & Josh Graves
18. I Found Out-THE ELECTRIC FLAG
19. Let The Four Winds Blow-Snooks Eaglin
20. The Move-Lonnie Mack
21. Dee abe beto biara-Eric Agyeman

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What can be said about one of the baddest hominids to ever go bipedal? James Brown was many things to many people. Interestingly I think he considered himself a much more adept singer than conventional wisdom suggests. This cover of a tune owned by Sinatra, That's Life, reveals a more ambitious Brown trying to reflect back on his jazz roots.

Billy Paul was at the center of the Philly sound and he was a soulful son of a gun. Talented and under recorded, Paul seems all but forgotten now. But in the seventies he was right there with Harold Melvin and Gamble and Huff defining a new urban soul sound.

Two legends of bluegrass, Josh Graves and Kenny Baker, come together for this great dobro tour de force. Graves would made his name with Flatt and Scruggs and Baker who played fiddle with Bill Monroe are two of the most important sidemen in bluegrass. Step it up and go shows they could make mighty music on their own.

Deep Tracks 78

1. The Main Attraction – Grant Green
2. Reuben’s Train – Bill Keith
3. Was It Good To You? – The Isley Brothers
4. Baby Boogaloo – Nilo Espinosa
5. Le Pere de Notre Pays-Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz
6. Sittin' Drinkin' And Thinkin'-Little Junior Parker
7. Mulher De Malandro-Geraldo Filme
8. I Do-Marvelows
9. Save Me-James Knight & The Butlers
10. Poly – Emiliano Salvador
11. From the Days of Pigtails-The Chairmen of the Board
12. El Soul Condor-Certain Lions & Tigers
13. I Don't Need No Help-Frank Owens
14. Hi De Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)-Dorothy Morrison
15. God Loves His Children-Earl Scruggs

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At 19-minutes long, The Main Attraction, which occupied the entire Side A of the original soundtrack LP, is not exactly a composition, more of an improvisational structure. Noted arranger David Matthews came in with two main riffs, played by Don Grolnick on the electric piano, and later doubled by the horn section. Don started to play those riffs, and then the other musicians joined him. The groove is solid like a rock, but the guest soloists seem to fly like seagulls over the cliffs. Hubert Laws, the supreme jazz flutist, plays with his usual facility and sublime tone. Too bad no one remembers the movie.

Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 – 24 June 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria.Although he only recorded one significant hit, "Sweet Mother," in 1976, which sold more than 13 million copies (and which is recognised as one of Africa's greatest songs), Mbarga played an important role in the evolution of African popular music. With his soulful vocals set to the light melodies and multiple guitars of his band, Mbarga created a unique hybrid of Igbo and Congolese guitar playing and uplifting highlife rhythms. He formed his own group, Rocafil Jazz, to perform regularly at the Naza Hotel in the eastern Nigerian city of Onitsha.

The Chairmen of the Board were one of the smoothest and most popular soul acts to emerge from Detroit in the early '70s. Although their time at the top of the R&B charts was brief -- their first Top Ten arrived in 1970, their last in 1973 -- they recorded a handful of '70s soul classics, all distinguished by the high, trembling vocals of General Norman Johnson, who also wrote the bulk of the group's material.