Holy shit, this look goog



A companion piece to Kent’s two volumes of Vietnam War-related soul, A Change Is Gonna Come is an audio documentation of how it felt to be black and American in the 1960’s. 23 exceptional tracks, covering everything from interracial relationships to poverty, hardship to emancipation, from segregation to the rise of the Black Power movement, by leading artists of their generation. Contains many songs that have achieved anthemic status over the past five decades. More than half of the featured tracks have never been on CD prior to this compilation.

1. Change Is Gonna Come - Redding, Otis
2. Only In America - Drifters (1)
3. Forty Acres And A Mule - Brown, Oscar Jr.
4. Blues For Mr Charlie - Gossett, Lou & Paul Sindab/Joe Lee Wilson/Little Butter
5. Stay With Your Own Kind - Holloway, Patrice
6. We're A Winner - Impressions
7. Have You Ever Seen The Blues - Kotto, Yaphet
8. When Will We Be Paid - Staple Singers
9. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open The Door I'll Get It Myself) - Brown, James (1)
10. And Black Is Beautiful - Lee, Nickie
11. Ghetto - Banks, Homer
12. Message From A Black Man - Spinners (2)
13. Oh Lord Why Lord - Parliament
14. We Are Neighbours - Chi-Lites
15. Cryin' In The Streets - Perkins, George & The Silver Stars
16. Prayer - Scott, Ray
17. I WasBorn Blue - Swamp Dogg
18. Run Charlie Run - Temptations (1)
19. Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Scott-Heron, Gil
20. Free At Last - Day, Jackie
21. To Be Young Gifted And Black - Simone, Nina
22. George Jackson - Robinson, J.P.
23. Someday We'll All Be Free - Hathaway, Donny

Damn, that looks awesome. See a release date?

I might've put on "Say It Loud" as the JB track and the Cooke version of the title track (though I understand getting the rights to it is difficult for some reason) instead, but still, pretty damn cool.

What's NNR?

Have you read the descriptions of the Mavis Staples record for April?

Kent is a UK based label and Its out in the UK already...Amazon is listing its release date as next Tuesday. Dusty Groove already has it (must be the UK version) and list it cheaper (16.99 vs. 19.99) than Amazon. Might be cheaper in a few weeks through other stores but I'll probably just snag it from Dusty Groove whenever i place my next order with them.

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Not yet but it is an automatic pickup for me.

Will it include never before seen footage of Mavis being gang raped by Richard Manuel and Levon Helm on The Last Waltz soundstage?

SOLD! to Dusty Groove. I also picked up some Homer Banks, an LP with Dazzy Duks, and a New Orleans Funk comp with a giant fat chick in a bikini. Thanks bg.

As for Mavis, this is from Amazon:



As musical activists in the 1960s civil rights movement, the Staple Singers were powerful voices for equality and change. And more than 40 years after Pops's daughter Mavis spent a night in a West Memphis, Arkansas, jail at the behest of a racist cop, she still remembers the terror of the experience, as well as the counsel of Dr. Martin Luther King.

That episode is at the centerpiece of "My Own Eyes," one of the most moving offerings on this collection of songs of racial struggle in the '50s and '60s, produced by guitarist Ry Cooder and featuring backing from the original Freedom Singers and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Throughout, the album proves both emotionally chilling and spiritually uplifting. On J.B. Lenoir's "Down in Mississippi" and Marshall Jones's "In the Mississippi River," for example, Cooder makes fine use of pounding percussion and snaky electric guitar to capture the danger and fear inherent in the Deep South at the time, while the title song and "Jesus Is on the Main Line" draw on gospel and the traditional framework of church hymns to promise positive solutions.

Staples, who ad libs on several cuts, connecting the injustice of yesterday to the continuing marginalization of blacks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, remains a remarkable performer, employing a throaty sensuality that rises from a deep well of tremulous emotion. If her album is musically uneven at times, her artistry and strength continue to shine as undimmed beacons. --Alanna Nash

Yaphet Kotto? I gotta hear that one.

Gimme this, that Charlie Louvin, and some sandpaper and I'm good.

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that. Crazy.

So Dusty Groove has a store in Chicago and I've never been. What's wrong with me? Definitely got to hit that before I move.