2 Step Soul Classics

The 2013 mini-box Original Album Classics rounds up the early-2000s expansions of Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather, and Soul to Soul at an affordable price point. It's arguable that SRV's best work came a bit later (In Step often seems like his best), but all three of these showcase the guitarist at his best and this package is a good bargain.

This volume's star-studded line up brings you tracks from icons who revolutionised House music as we know it today. We've include A-list producers and artists such as Basement Jaxx, Armand Van Helden, Royksopp, Calvin Harris, Tim Deluxe, Cassius, Mylo, Bob Sinclar, Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso to name a few…

"Dance Classics - The Hits" was a series of compilation albums with dance-tracks.
This article contains the complete series.

The line dividing black gospel and so-called secular music has always been a thin one, and musicians have rarely been afraid to step over it. In the 1920s, the blind singer “Arizona” Juanita Dranes wed ragtime and boogie—rhythms associated with saloons and barrelhouses—to Holiness movement hymns. Later, Mahalia Jackson, who refused to record secular records, nonetheless achieved massive popularity outside the sanctified confines of the gospel scene. A true pioneer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe scandalized the church by performing in nightclubs, practically inventing rock & roll in the process. By the early 1970s, blockbuster Stax singles by the Staple Singers proved artists could exist comfortably in both worlds, or suggested that perhaps these distinct spheres actually overlapped.

UK three CD set containing a trio of albums from the R&B great: Home Is Where the Heart Is (1976), Pieces (1977) and Roads of Life (1979).

This set forms exactly the period in which Santana was most influenced by jazzrock, starting whith the supreme coherent Caravanserai,then joining John McLaughlin on Love Devotion Surrender, followed by Welcome, in fact the best of the set, although less coherent in the sense of being an album: the tracks are very different in style, but are all very good!…