Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl

In an extraordinary career spanning seven decades, director and “godfather of black cinema” Melvin Van Peebles only made one studio film. 1970’s Watermelon Man shattered [...]

East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)

The only conceivable reason this 1973 album isn’t generally recognized as a soul-funk classic is because it came out on Bernard Purdie’s Encounter label, which mustered only five LP [...]

George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)

This soul-funk nugget, released in the early ’70s on the uber-collectible Maple label, qualifies as a major find based on George Scott’s Wilson Pickett-meets-James-Brown vocal [...]

Little Willie John – The Complete R&B Hit Singles (Yellow “Fever” Vinyl)

Diminutive in size but gigantic in stature, Little Willie John was a genuine architect of soul. Along with Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles, and Sam Cooke, the visionary singer stood at […]

Doris Troy – Just One Look (Emerald Green Vinyl)

The late Doris Troy was one of America’s great female soul singers. Discovered by James Brown while working as an usherette at the Apollo Theater, Doris became a founding member […]

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights

“Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The artwork for 100 Days, 100 Nights is unabashedly steeped somewhere in the early ’60s. It is this era that the […]

Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming

Charles Bradley’s voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska–singing and performing in his spare [...]

Lou Ragland – Is The Conveyor

The last chapter of Lou Ragland’s Cleveland career was perhaps the most monumental. By its completion, Understand Each Other—more often referred to as The ConVeyor, with that uppercase V [...]

Sunny & The Sunliners – Mr. Brown Eyed Soul Vol. 2

Sunny Ozuna is a living legend and a man worthy of praise on many levels. In the Texas and Latin Music pantheon, few have been at it longer and are […]

Archie James Cavanaugh – Black And White Raven (White Raven Vinyl)

A masterpiece of the schooner rock variety, Black and White Raven is an album that emerged from Archie James Cavanaugh’s youthful dream of recording his own music while stuck in […]

Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell (instrumentals)

Kelly Finnigan’s debut solo album for Colemine Records represents the culmination of his 15 years of experience – in the studio as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer [...]

Lee Fields – Big Crown Vaults Vol 1

We are always sitting on a handful of unreleased songs that didn’t make their way to albums. Listening back to these gems we decided to launch a new series entitled […]

Doris Duke ‎– I’m A Loser

The classic 1969 deep soul album produced by Swamp Dogg and recorded in Macon GA. Featuring two tracks with Duane Allman on guitar.

24 Carat Black – Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Embraced in the early ’90s by Britain’s rare groove scene and later sampled by Digable Planets and Jay-Z, Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth has since been known as 24-Carat Black’s first and […]

Bobby Oroza – Get On The Otherside

Bobby Oroza puts his desire for the profound on wax with his sophomore album Get On The Otherside. Musically, he has updated the formula we were introduced to on the […]

Amalia Rodrigues – Cordas (Portugese Vocal)

Papé Nziengui – Kadi Yombo

Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. […]

Ibeyi ‎– Spell 31

Ibeyi are French Afro-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz. Performing from a young age, the daughters of famed Cuban percussionist Ánga Diaz, have released two critically acclaimed [...]

V/A – The D-Vine Spirituals Story Vol. 1

In 1970, while the United States was recovering from the tumultuous unrest of the sixties and Southern segregationist George Wallace was between bids for the presidency, a young black preacher [...]

Sylk – S/T

Sylk was a short-lived soul & funk band from the Aiken, South Carolina – Augusta, Georgia border area (better known as the CSRA) who released just one album in 1983. […]

Quinn Harris – Statements

Born in Texas but raised in Riverside, California, Quinn Harris first started playing music in 1954 when he saved up his paper route money for an alto sax. At a […]

JPQ – Quintessence

JPQ (Jimmy Person Quintet) was a short-lived soul & funk band from the Greensboro, North Carolina area who released just one album in 1983. Their only album (Quintessence) would become […]