― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexxyDancer, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― hexxy, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― tk, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexxyDancer, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Isleys seconded. Hot Chocolate seconded.
― Iggy Bliss, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Phillips, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― 4kflka, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Tyrone Davis - "Can I Change My Mind"William DeVaughn - "Be Thankful For What You've Got"
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Other Good 70s funk/soul albums:James Brown - Hell, The Payback, There It Is JB's Funky People Vol.1-2The Meters - Fire on the Bayou, StruttinWar- Why Can't We Be Friends, The World Is a Ghetto, All Day Music
― earlnash, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Star Hustler, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Bobby Womack albums are dicey. Try the one-disc Best Of on Razor & Tie. I have a 2-disc United Artitsts thing that covers the 60s, too. To hear what a early 70s soul album recorded in the 80s sounds like, check out Womack & Womack's Love Wars.
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the RainMillie Jackson - Caught Up/ Still Caught Up et al
Numerous others
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― HEXXXY, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― dialecticbricks (dialecticbricks), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Wild Magnolias and Wild Tchoupitoulas albums are both fine too.
Lee Dorsey's "Yes We Can" is excellent '70s funk.
Swamp Dogg's "Fuck the Bomb" comp also good, if a little spotty. "Total Destruction to Your Mind" is his best album-as-album.
The James Brown "Funky People" comps are also pretty essential, as is the 2-CD JBs best-of.
Something I'm into right now is this Mer-Da album on Janus, truly some of the most demented and thrilling '70s funk I've ever heard.
And post-"Disco Lady" Johnnie Taylor needs a good reappraisal...I think it's great.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
also: war, aretha (e.g - the young gifted and black album), early rick james (the come and get it album), willie hutch.
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Stevie Wonder presents...Syreeta
― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:01 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is so good
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Best $35 you could spend right now:
Bill Withers - Complete Sussex & Columbia Albums Collection Box sethttp://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sussex-Columbia-Albums-Collection/dp/B008S80PCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424719837&sr=8-1&keywords=bill+withers+box
http://fastnbulbous.com/70s-soul/Donny Hathaway, Terry Callier, Eddie Kendricks, Esther Phillips, The Chi-Lites, Lee Moses, O.V. Wright, Billy Paul, Sam Dees, etc.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
William DeVaughn was mentioned a couple times upthread, but I just wanted to opine that the entire "Be Thankful..." album is a solid listen on a par with the single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahP4gyeZVw&list=PL998F2358BB388238&index=3
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Monday, 23 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
And this!
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Esther Phillips - Baby I'm For Real – 4 Classic Albums 1971 to 1974 (From A Whisper To A Scream/Alone Again Naturally/Black Eyed Blues/Performance)https://www.dustygroove.com/item/692494
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Ordinary Joe, by Terry Callier
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 23 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Was reading someone say Michael Kiwanuka is Curtis Mayfield influenced but I hear more Bill Withers and Terry Callier
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
Thanks to songs on streaming shows , Kiwanuka is developing quite a US following. I am still not won over completely.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Does Kiwanuka need his own thread? His audience is growing in NA for sure but the response on this board is so lukewarm (no mentions in either the album or the tracks poll).I thought the last one was a lock for one of the best of the year. Much tighter than Love & Hate.
― ascai, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
I liked the most recent one too, but something about his retro-ness bugs me. That Daptone like thing. Although his latest goes well beyond that. Also , I am a big fan of the late Mel Waiters, a southern soul singer, who like others on the “chitlin circuit soul thread “ get no crossover attention. That’s not Kiwanuka’s fault though, I must acknowledge.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
I get more than a whiff of Radio 2 about Kiwanuka. Which needn't always be a pejorative but...
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link