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Let There Be Love: SoulMusic Collects, Expands Shirley Murdock's Elektra Albums

September 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Shirley Murdock As We Lay

As a member of the extended family of funk group Zapp, Shirley Murdock memorably added her vocals to the 1986 hit "Computer Love" (for which she also shares a co-writing credit).  Concurrently, Murdock was launching her own solo career at Elektra Records, where she would release three solo LPs through 1991.  Now, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has revisited and expanded that trio of albums on As We Lay: The Elektra Recordings (1985-1991), a new 3-CD collection that's an essential

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Shirley Murdock

Holiday Gift Guide Stax Spotlight: The Staple Singers' "Come Go with Me" and "The Gospel Truth: Complete Singles Collection"

December 23, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Staple Singers Come Go with Me

UPDATED DECEMBER 2020: Earlier this year, Craft Recordings released The Staple Singers' Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection in vinyl and digital editions. The set compiled all of the famed gospel group's 1968-1974 albums for the Stax label plus a volume of rarities, non-LP single sides, and live recordings. Now, that box has come to CD as beautifully remastered from the original analog tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl. Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection features the following

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: Holiday Gift Guide, Jimmy Jones, Joshie Jo Armstead, Louise McCord, The Rance Allen Group, The Staple Singers

Review: Bear Family's "Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War"

June 14, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Battleground Korea

If there was any doubt that history could be engaging as well as informative, such doubt would be dispelled by a listen to Bear Family's new release, the 4-CD box set Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War.  Make no mistake, the handsomely slipcased collection is as imposing and heavy as a textbook, as its four discs are housed within a lavish, 160-page hardcover tome.  But this immersive journey can't help but thrill in its scope and execution.  It follows previous Bear

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Various Artists

Review: Bob Dylan, "Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981"

November 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

I. Gotta Serve Somebody Bob Dylan wasn't mincing words.  On the first track of the first album of what would later be referred to as his "gospel years," the artist laid his message out with striking simplicity.  "It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord," Dylan admonished, "but you're gonna have to serve somebody."  Suddenly, the same singer-songwriter who opined that "the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" had found the answer - and His name was Jesus Christ. Between 1979 and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel Tags: Bob Dylan

Somewhere In The World: Playback Collects Sixties Pop, Jazz and Gospel From Judy Jacques

April 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Judy Jacques Sixties Sessions

Playback Records' second recent jazz-oriented release comes from Melbourne's Judy Jacques.  Whereas Sue Barker's brand of jazz was a soulful one with strains of pop and rock, Jacques' style was firmly in the "trad jazz" camp derived from New Orleans and Dixieland.  The Sixties Sessions collects 24 tracks recorded between 1962 and 1966 from the solo artist (including some atypical pop sides) as well as The Yarra Yarra New Orleans Jazz Band, and Judy Jacques and Her Gospel Four. When she was

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Gospel, Jazz, Pop Tags: Judy Jacques

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