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This 2002 compilation shuffles most of Wild Cherry's charting hits and combines them with a larger number of album cuts. "Play That Funky Music," along with the other singles that almost no one remembers – "Hot to Trot," "Hold On," "I Love My Music" – are included. "Baby Don't You Know," the mildly successful "Play That Funky Music" sound-alike that became the group's second hit, is not. Everything the group did was unfairly compared to "Play That Funky Music," so the remainder of the Wild Cherry catalog is deserving of more attention; still, this disc will be more than enough for most casual fans of disco and funk.

Ten tunes with an all-star cast including Ronnie Earl (guitar), Kim Wilson (harmonica), Greg Piccolo (sax), Wayne Bennett (guitar), and other excellent players. Plenty of fine guitar, keyboards, harmonica, and uptempo blues music.

Singer and instrumentalist Jack Tatum has carved out a distinctive niche in the pop landscape with his band Wild Nothing, crafting atmospheric anthems steeped in '80s new wave and dream pop aesthetics. He further conjures an evocative '80s vibe on 2023's Hold. Interestingly, while Hold is the first album Tatum has produced on his own since his 2010 debut and largely finds him playing many of the instruments himself (along with a small group of musicians), it's one of his most lush and pristine-sounding albums. Here, he frames his resonant croon with sparkling keyboards, crisp electric guitars, and exotic, acid house-sounding drum grooves. It's a musical vibe that brings to mind a kind of cross-genre blend of pop, dance, and soul redolent of the late '80s and early '90s.

This is the CD debut of superb, but still relatively unknown, hard-psychedelic LP based on moody, but intense guitars, distinguish organ/piano parts & complex vocal harmonies. Released by United Artists in early 1970, the only record of this US band showed the influences from The Beatles, The Moody Blues and Neil Young, but mainly from great, but underrated Damnation Of Adam Blessing - from which the two members provided some guitar work to the album. Wild Butter have offered a varied, imaginative and beautifully-arranged songs (with progressive attitude) and should appeal to fans of creative, melodic and sometimes quite heavy rock. This CD has been carefully remastered from the original, analogue source.