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Various Artists - The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records (1995) {9CD Set, Rounder Records ‎CDAN25}
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© 1995 Rounder Records | ‎CD AN 25
Blues / Country / Jazz / Folk / Soul / Funk / Bluegrass

Within the discount, ugly-duckling packaging of The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records lie nine CD swans worth several hundred times their weight in superficial music-industry gold records. Since 1970, Massachusetts-based Rounder has been a stalwart sanctuary of various musics at the root of what has recently been labeled "Americana." The retrospective is segmented into four thematic two-disc sets, each offering a staggering 30 to 50 tracks where legendary names rub shoulders with bright young Rounder talent.

Esther Phillips - Brand New Day: The Lenox Atlantic & Roulette Recordings 1962-1970 (2020) {5CD Set, Soul Music QSMCR-5194BX}
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© 1962-70, 2020 Soul Music Records | QSMCR-5194BX
Jazz / R&B / Jazz Blues / Soul

The late Esther Phillips (1935-1984) has often been considered one of the ‘unsung’ pioneers in the world of R&B, stretching back to the early ‘50s when as a child star working with famed bandleader Johnny Otis, she enjoyed a run of chart-topping singles at the age of 15, making her the youngest female artist to ever have an No. 1 R&B hit at the time. The Texas-born vocalist returned in 1962 with a soulful version of the country hit, ‘Release Me’ for Lenox Records, subsequently signing with Atlantic Records for whom she recorded a total of four full albums between 1964-1970 with a brief spell at Roulette Records in 1969.

The Stanley Brothers - The Early Starday-King Years 1958-1961 (2003) {4CD Collector's Box Set Gusto Records KBSCD-7000}
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© 1958-61, 2003 Gusto Records | KBSCD-7000
Bluegrass / Country / Traditional Bluegrass

The Early Starday-King Years: 1958-1961 is a 109-track, four-disc box set that compiles every track the Stanley Brothers cut for Starday and King during that era. At the time, the group were releasing albums both on Starday and King, so there was an immense amount of confusion between the releases; the box set helps clarify the matters, by gathering all of the music together and presenting it in chronological order. This way, it's possible to hear their progression, as well as the differences between the recordings for the two labels; on the King recordings, the Stanley Brothers tended to be more experimental, working in electric instrumentation. Though there is plenty of fine music on the set, The Early Starday-King Years is, overall, too thorough and extensive for anyone but bluegrass historians.

James Brown - Think! (1960) {Universal Music Japan Mini LP UICY-9281 rel 2003}
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© 1960, 2003 Polydor / Universal Music Japan | UICY-9281 | Cardboard Sleeve | 24bit remastering | Mono
Funk / R'n'B / Soul / Funky Jam

Limited to 5000 copies.Paper sleeve. THINK, credited to James Brown and The Famous Flames was originally released as KING 12-683 in 1960. It was Brown's third album, and as with most of his non-live pre-1970's albums, it contains previously released singles. Here it's some of his final Federal and early King sides. All songs are backed by his first great "James Brown Band" lead by J.C. Davis. Tracks 11 & 12 are James solo without The Flames. It was reissued numerous times throughout his career, some with different covers.

D.J. Rogers - Love Brought Me Back (1978) {Soul Music Records SMCR5110, Remastered & Expanded rel 2013}
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© 1978, 2013 Columbia / Sony Music / Soul Music Records | SMCR 5110
R&B / Soul / Funk / Quiet Storm

Released in 1978, "Love Brought Me Back" was D.J. Rogers' most commercially successful album. The gorgeous title track is a mid-tempo ballad that deservedly became a Top 20 R&B hit and this album (as a whole) is very much enjoyable. While it does have a couple of obligatory uptempo Disco tracks the slow-tempo, slow-burn Quiet storm ballads and mid-tempo numbers are what make this album special. This remastered edition from Soulmusic.com Records reissues the entire original album plus a few bonus remixes and single edits as bonus tracks.