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An Al Kooper anthology featuring Mike Bloomfield, Bob Dylan, Steve Stills, Shuggie Otis, Paul Simon. Includes live material.

Dean Rudland compiles a selection of 70s Funk for Back Beats. Nina Simone, Jimmy Castor, Shuggie Otis, Sly & The Family Stone and many more feature. Amazon Review by Donald E. Gilliland: If you can get past the stupid album title and the tacky cover photo, you will find the music on this compilation to be very good, over 65 minutes of fine funky soul tunes from 1968 to 1974. The closest thing to a hit on this collection is perhaps "Sing A Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone, but even without a bunch of hits the material on here is very high in quality, which one would expect from a volume in this dependable "Backbeats" series of collection. Even amongst the recognizable names such as Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, M.F.S.B., Shuggie Otis, and Al Kooper we are treated to some very tasty funk-infused material. I also love "Watts Breakaway" by Johnny Otis, "It's Just Begun" by Jimmy Castor (which sounds like it could be an early Earth, Wind & Fire track!),"It's Alright" by the legendary Bobby Rush, and "Afro Strut" by the Nite-Liters. Even more obscure artists such as Shay Holiday, Casey Jones, Jesse Gresham, and Kim Melvin turn out some cool songs. And I can't forget the drum work-out by Bernard Purdie on "Soul Drums". Feel the beat indeed! I have enjoyed almost all of the volumes in the "Breakbeats" series, and this is one of the better ones. Too bad about that horrible cover and the album title! But ignore all that and just listen to the music; there's plenty of truly great songs on here, ones that will surely please fans of early 1970s soul and funk.

Rare & Well Done is a 2001 double CD compilation by Al Kooper. Released by Legacy Columbia, one disc features nothing but demos (the "rare") while another disc features songs that are known and loved (the "well done"). This CD was released on 18 September, 2001.

The Best Soul Album contains the definitive Artists & Songs of Soul. The Best hits from Sly & The Family Stone, Billy Ocean, McFadden & Whitehead, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Labelle, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, The O’Jays and many more.

Soul Classics features 4 Sides of vinyl containing 30 tracks of the biggest soul legends including; Al Green, Nina Simone, Bill Withers, The O’Jays, Labi Siffre, Deniece Williams, Freda Payne and more.

3CD set. Monumental 60-track collection features Marvin Gaye, Chic, Anita Ward, Stevie Wonder, The O'Jays, The Commodores, Candi Staton, James Brown, Kool & The Gang, Rose Royce, Earth Wind & Fire, The Isley Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Shuggie Otis and others!

Ministry of Sound continue to educate the masses with a brand new collection of one our most loved music genres. With the sun shining what better album to get your groove on and heat things up for the imminent summer than Funk Soul Classics. A major influence on disco, funk music is a sound familiar to all having also been heavily sampled in dance related genres ever since including hip hop, house and drum & bass not to mention featuring in countless iconic film soundtracks (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Shaft to name but a few). The essential tunes from your favourite funk soul brothers & sisters all feature including the Academy Award winning 'Theme From Shaft' by Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, Sly & The Family Stone, Bill Withers, Funkadelic, The Isley Brothers, The Fatback Band, Al Green, Aretha Franklin & Sister Sledge. 3CDs of grooves and cuts that defined an era, from Stateside to Southport, these are the records that provided the soundtrack to a generation.