Deep Tracks 68

1. Why Don’t You Do Your Thing – Jackie Wilson
2. Mo’Do – Mongo Santamaria
3. Rocky Top – The Osborne Brothers
4. Groove Drops – Jimmy Smith
5. Fe Cega – Milton Nascimento
6. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window – Joe Cocker
7. Aunt Lovey – Calvin Keys
8. You Done Got Older – Billy Preston
9. Mississippi – Mofro
10. If You’re Ready Come Go With Me – Jimmy McGriff
11. Give Me Some Courage – Howard Tate
12. Hnic – Blue Mitchell
13. Life is Like That – Little Milton
14. Getting’ Down - Brand New Rhythm
15. I’m Just A Prisoner – Candi Staton
16. There Ain’t No Man Can’t Be Caught – Jimmy Lewis
17. Somebody Touched Me – Carl Story
18. Who’s Gonna Help A Brother – Lee Dorsey
19. Tobacco Road – Lou Rawls
20. Ain’t Gonna Tell No More – Stoned Soul Pinic
21. Can’t You See – The Marshall Tucker Band

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This is a really solid comp in my humble and uninformed opinion. A lot of interesting tracks and artists on this one. Jackie Wilson had one of the great voices of all time and like Sam Cooke he operated perhaps less than comfortably at the intersection between white pop and black R&B. He had too much appeal for the young white women to have total credibility as a pop star but he was also way too black for mainstream acceptance.

Rocky Top is a great American bluegrass classic, drinkin', lovin', and dying. The Osborne Brothers are singers and players of the first tier and had many country hits over the years.

Jimmy Smith was working hard as the 70's dawned to stay relevant in the post-James Brown world of Black Music. Groove Drops was one of his 70's albums in this mode. More complex arrangements and instrumentation combined with a his dazzling b-3 skills made for some interesting output. Not for the classicists that's for sure.

Calvin Key's Aunt Lovey is another funky jazz number from the great lost Black Jazz label out of Oakland. Founded by pianist Gene Russell this label took West Coast artists and sensibilities and created a distinct and very funky sound.

I think that a lot like Jackie Wilson, Howard Tate had one of the great voices of all time. Unrecorded for sure but still great as this track evidences.