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The Scene of the Crime
(2007)
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Bettye LaVette
On the surface, it may seem that pairing soul survivor Bettye LaVette with Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers is a match made in hell, and no one could be blamed for that assumption. Since LaVette singed to Anti for 2005's I've Got My Own Hell to Raise, an album produced by Joe Henry that brought her back into the public eye after more than 30 ...
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Greatest Hits [Evergreen]
(1991)
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Jerry Butler
Evergreen's Greatest Hits is an 11-track budget-priced collection that features some of Jerry Butler's biggest hits, including "For Your Precious Love," "He Will Break Your Heart," "What's the Use of Breaking Up" and "The Devil in Mrs. Jones." Although this isn't a bad budget-priced disc, there are better collections available, offering more songs ...
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Anthology
(1999)
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The Dells
The Dells were one of the few groups that rode the transition from doo wop to smooth soul without missing a beat and without falling off the charts. Just as remarkably, the group did so without declining much in quality, as Hip-O's definitive double-disc Anthology proves. Throughout these 36 tracks, the music changes, from street-corner R&B to ...
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Ultimate Collection
(2001)
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The Impressions
This is an Ultimate Collection for the Impressions, not Curtis Mayfield, which are two separate things, no matter how closely intertwined their histories are. This begins with "For Your Precious Love," when Jerry Butler was the lead singer, and ends with two tracks that he neither wrote nor sang, giving a good basic history of the band's career ...
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The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
(1991)
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Various Artists
At nine discs and 244 tracks, The Complete Stax-Volt Singles: 1959-1968 is far too exhaustive for casual fans, but that's not who the set is designed for -- it's made for the collector. Featuring every A-side the label released during those nine years, as well as several B-sides, the set is a definitive portrait of gritty, deep Southern soul. Many ...
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Funky Stuff: The Best of Funk Essentials
(1993)
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Various Artists
For those looking to find a crash course in "the funk" -- a quick introduction to the fusion of R&B, soul, jazz, blues, good old rock & roll, and all-out outrageousness that creates the ultimate good groove -- you can't do much better than the Funk Essentials compilations. Funky Stuff: The Best of Funk Essentials is the perfect portrait. With its ...
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Caught Up/Still Caught Up
(1999)
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Millie Jackson
Hip-O made a natural choice for this repackaging of two Millie Jackson LPs: her love-triangle classic Caught Up from 1974, and its follow-up, Still Caught Up, from 1975. Sounding better than they ever have, this pair of albums chart the course of one of the most disastrous affairs in musical history. The first features sides from each perspective, ...
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I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
(2005)
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Bettye LaVette
What can be said about Bettye LaVette that hasn't already been said? Like James Carr before her, LaVette has toiled behind the smoke and glitz of the limelight for decades. Her last regular recording contract was in the 1980s, and she hasn't cracked the R&B Top 20 in over three decades. The 21st century has seen LaVette's activity increase, but it ...
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Greatest Hits [Sony Special Products]
(1989)
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The Manhattans
Greatest Hits is a good, basic sampler of the Manhattans' hits for Columbia Records, featuring such singles as "Kiss and Say Goodbye," "I Kinda Miss You," "It Feels So Good to Be Loved So Bad," "Am I Losing You," "Crazy" and "Shining Star." Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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East Side Story, Vol. 1-12
(2002)
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Various Artists
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The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
(2007)
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The Dells
The Dells recorded for Vee-Jay during a relatively brief portion of their incredibly lengthy career, doing their main hitch with the label in the mid- to late '50s before briefly returning to the company in the mid-'60s. This 17-track compilation puts material from both eras onto one disc, concentrating as expected on their doo wop output from ...
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Child of the Seventies
(2006)
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Betty LaVette
Exemplifying that it is truly "better late than never," it has taken over 30 years to finally get soul diva Bettye LaVette's oft-rumored Child of the Seventies out to eager ears. Granted, much of the material was released as Souvenirs on the French indie Art & Soul label in 2000. However, this CD sounds markedly better and the project is served ...
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Wow.../Bound to Happen
(1997)
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William Bell
In 1997, Fantasy combined two of William Bell's classic Stax albums, Wow... and Bound to Happen, on a single CD. The albums found the soul man in two notably different settings. The last Bell album that was produced by organist Booker T. Jones, Bound to Happen is a Memphis-oriented treasure boasting a number of songs that should have been major ...
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The Very Best of Major Lance
(2000)
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Major Lance
This 16-song, single-disc compilation concentrates on Lance's most well-known hits, including all of his highest-charting 45's: "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um," "Hey Little Girl," "The Monkey Time," "Rhythm," and "The Matador." It's excellent Chicago '60s soul, but all of the cuts are also found on Epic/Legacy's 40-song, two-CD anthology Everybody Loves ...
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Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me
(1964)
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The Tams
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Let Me Down Easy: In Concert
(2000)
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Bettye LaVette
This German import captures the essence of Betty Lavette, Detroit's most underrated female singer. Betty approach to recording was similar to the way pugilists Sugar Ray Leonard, and Muhammad Ali approached boxing rounds -- dance and parry the first two minutes or so then crank it up the last 30 seconds. The first two minutes of a song was just a ...
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The Complete Syl Johnson on Hi Records
(2000)
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Syl Johnson
Syl Johnson started out his career on the blues side of things, working with Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells, Magic Sam and others, but his biggest successes have come as a soul singer, first for Peter Wright's TwiNight label (originally TwiLight Records, it became TwiNight when it was discovered that another label already owned the Twilight name) in ...
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I Love Beach Music, Vol. 1 & 2
(1996)
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Various Artists
Beach music is such an open-ended genre that it essentially ends up being any music that is played in the seaboard dance clubs of the southeast, but the heart and soul of it tends to be a mixture of R&B, soul, and even doo wop from the 1960s, as this two-disc, 36-track set makes clear. A veritable dance party in a box, I Love Beach Music features ...
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The Girl Don't Care
(1967)
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Gene Chandler
One of Chandler's best, chock full of midtempo grooves, succulent ballads and jump tunes like "Good Times." Curtis Mayfield's "Nothing Can Stop Me" is spiced with punchy horns and choral backing vocals for Gene to play his cool, swaggering tenor against. The pain in his voice is undeniable on "Here Come the Tears," where he literally cries the ...
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The Motown Box
(2005)
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Various Artists
With a plethora of outstanding box sets, anthologies, and budget-line compilations flooding the market from Motown, to pinpoint a definitive collection that is both economically feasible and a thorough introductory primer can be a challenging affair. While this Motown box seems like a four-disc collection most die-hard enthusiasts will have in ...
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The Best of Jerry Butler [Rhino]
(1987)
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Jerry Butler
Still the only compilation to range through Jerry Butler's entire career on the pop charts, Rhino's The Best of Jerry Butler offered a lot of tracks (especially for the mid-'80s) and remains the best place to hear the full scope of Chicago's smoothest soul singer. The 18-tracker begins fittingly with his first hit, the sweet ballad "For Your ...
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Feeling Good
(1976)
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Walter Jackson
As a vocalist, Walter Jackson experienced success in the '60s with hits like 1965's "Welcome Home" and 1967's "My Ship Is Coming In." Those songs typify the powerful and dramatic Chicago sound, a perfect match for his precise diction and haunted baritone. Jackson's career was hampered due to his affliction with polio and unjustified commercial ...
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Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time
(2002)
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Various Artists
If you've been collecting records for any length of time -- from two months to two decades -- chances are you already own a good chunk of the 88 songs on Rhino's 2002 four-disc box set, Soul Spectacular! The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time. If you're just assembling your collection, you may only have a handful of the songs here, so this cornucopia ...
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Greatest Hits
(1991)
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Little Johnny Taylor
The gospel-tinged and decidedly soul-inflected 1963-1968 blues sides of Little Johnny Taylor on Galaxy Records benefitted from marvelous horn-powered arrangements by Ray Shanklin that brilliantly pushed Taylor's melismatic vocals. Naturally, the impassioned "Part Time Love" is included, along with the Bobby Bland-tinged mid-tempo groover "You'll ...
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Greatest Hits [Columbia]
(1980)
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The Manhattans
This spotlights the biggest records from The Manhattans' second phase. After George "Smitty" Smith died, eventual replacement Gerald Alston brought them a fine heartache and love ballad stylist. The move to a major label in the early '70s also helped, as Columbia provided them much more publicity muscle and promotional assistance than they ever ...
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