Deep Tracks 86

1. Soul Serenade-King Curtis
2. Don't Happen No More-Jessie Young
3. Méditation-Fantastic Tchico
4. Outrageous-Johnny Pate
5. Born To Wander-Rare Earth
6. Family Affair-Blue Mitchell
7. Last Ole Dollar-Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
8. Blackbyrd-Donald Byrd
9. Your Love Is Certified-Rasputin's Stash
10. Sassy-Frantic Johnny Rogers
11. Groove Thang-Houston Person
12. I Don't Want To Pretend-Billy Preston
13. Sophisticated Soul-Hank Crawford
14. Cheater Man-Irma Thomas
15. Take Your Shoes Off Moses-The Bluegrass Cardinals
16. The Piper Cherokee-Bobby Hughes Experience
17. Roll over Beethoven-Chuck Berry
18. Dumpy Mama-Sonny Stitt
19. West Coast Blues-Nancy Wilson
20. You Call It Joggin'-Mose Allison

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Curtis Ousley (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the name King Curtis, was an American tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist and session musician who played rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. He was also a musical director and record producer for Aretha Franklin and other top R&B artists. Provided sax solos on numerous hits in the 60's and inspired nearly every artist he worked with. Curtis was loved and respected by both the music establishment and hippy freaks like Duane Allman and Delany Bramlett. Soul Serenade is one of his best known compositions. Tragically he was murdered entering his home in Harlem in 1971.

Houston Person (born November 10, 1934) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. Although he has performed in the hard bop and swing genres, he is most experienced in and best known for his work in soul jazz with people like Bernard Purdie, Melvin Sparks, Virgil Jones, and others. His best stuff never seemed to stray far from his roots in R&B, as "Sweet Buns" indicates. And this might be one of the worst covers ever made.

Deep Tracks 83

1. Swing Low Sweet Chariot-Curly Seckler
2. Cherry Wine-Little Esther Phillips
3. Wakasikirei Satani-Bhundu Boys
4. Leave My Woman Alone-Freddie King
5. One Night Affair – Seldon Powell
6. Everybody Wants To Fall In Love-Solomon Burke
7. Grand Funk – Jackie Mittoo
8. Rocket 69 – Todd Rhodes
9. The Prodigal Son – Harold Ousley
10. No Luck To Run – Zamali
11. LA Sunshine – WAR
12. Gentle On My Mind-Caecilie Norby
13. Gospel Feeling – Weldon Irvine
14. Poor Man – Little Milton
15. I Can’t Get No Higher – Eight Minutes
16. A New Day – Jack Lomax
17. Evil Ways – Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes
18. Sweet Virginia – Rolling Stones (Live ’72)
19. Senor Boogaloo – Wally Richardson

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The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit, and is quite popular across Africa, with some international success. The name came from bhundu (meaning "Bush" or "jungle"), in reference to the young boys who used to aid the nationalist guerrilla fighters in the 1970s war against the white minority government of what was then Rhodesia. Lead singer Biggie Tembo (Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha) was just such a Bhundu boy.

Jackie Mittoo was a Jamaican keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. He was a founding member of The Skatalites and was a mentor to many younger performers, primarily through his work as musical director for the Studio One record label. His brilliant compositions integrated funk, R&B, mento, calypso. Grand Funk is a wicked early 70's jam.

LA Sunshine is about as positive a groove as one could possibly compose about Los Angeles and it's ubiquitous sun. WAR was a multiracial and multiethnic band that originated in fertile ghettos of Chicago during the end of the 60's. The band flourished throughout the 70's scoring several hits and evolving personnel. Just a really sick band.

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.

Deep Tracks 70

1. She Breaks – Booker T. & the MG’s
2. Lonesome Road Blues – Earl Taylor & The Stoney Mtn Boys
3. Maze – Tabuley Rochereau
4. Trouble, You Can’t Fool Me – Ry Cooder
5. Will I Ever Learn? – Eddie Bo
6. Tighten Up – The Bamboos
7. Hambone Boogie – Al Perkins
8. Whitehouse Blues – The Stanley Brothers
9. Northbound – Time Easton
10. Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Roy Ayers & The Soul Society
11. Listen Here – Ben Sidran
12. What Kind of World – King James Version
13. The Bear – John Mayall
14. Momma Jive – Charles Kynard
15. Funk Shack East – Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
16. You Got It – Etta James
17. Wouri – Manu Dibango
18. The Demon Pt. 2 – Catalyst
19. Blues in the Night – Little Milton
20. My Lord Keeps A Record – Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mtn. Boys

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She Breaks is from Booker T. Jones's most recent album. Shows the man can still compose a tune after more than a decade away from the the recording studio.

The Whitehouse Blues is just a killer traditional tune here played at almost light speed by the Stanley Brothers in a display of jaw dropping virtuosity. This was recorded live at the New River Ranch in 1955.

Charles Kynard was another jazz funk hero, at least for a few records during the late sixties and early seventies. You could always count on there being at least a couple of great grooves on these albums.

Deep Tracks 64

1. Hot Tamales – Noble Watts
2. Brutal Out Deh – The Itals
3. If It Ain’t Me – Curtis Salgado & Terry Robb
4. Hook & Boogie Pt. 1 – Abraham
5. Hold It! – Billy Butler
6. Is It Clear – Osiris
7. Loosen Up – Alan Bown
8. The Circus – Eric Rhame
9. Bolingo Ya Bougie – Orchestre OK Jazz
10. Be Easy – Sharon Jones and the Dapkings
11. If I Could Reach Out – Otis Clay
12. Get Involved - George Soule
13. Be Black – Grady Tate
14. Preacher’s Blues – The Johnny Otis Show Live
15. Devilry – Cablidos
16. Got To Be Some Changes Made – The Staple Singers
17. Boogaloo de Johnny – Johnny Pacheco (remix)
18. I’ve Got Enough – Johnny Fry
19. Anyone But You – Syl Johnson
20. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms – Doc Watson
21. But It’s Alright – Mongo Santamaria
22. Wicked Messenger – David Nelson Trio

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Noble Watts is one of the roots of the rock n roll tree. Blistering screaming saxophone especially for the pretty girls.

The Itals released three roots albums all around 1980 and they are all crucial albums that are easily in my top 15 reggae platters. Other than the fact that Brutal Out Deh seems to have been recorded with the band in one room and the mics in another, it is a great, great song with almost perfect harmony vocals.

I was happy to grab a copy of Curtis Salgado and Terry Robb's album. Both are Oregonians I have had the pleasure of seeing many many times and both are extremely underrated musicians. Robb in particular can play anything.

Billy Butler was another builder working on the soul jazz building.He is always pictured smoking a pipe and he loved to work the volume knob to great effect.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are the finest living proponents of real soul. Period.