Some more:



Isaac Hayes - Live at the Sahara Tahoe

1 Hour and 40 minutes of Black Moses alternating originals with covers that he completely makes his own. If you like his baroque soul takes of "Walk on By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" from "Hot Buttered Soul" you should dig his live versions of "The Look of Love", "Windows of the World," "It's Too Late" (Carole King Cover!), and "Ain't No Sunshine." It's a massively underrated set that I think deserves that same accolades as the James Brown Live at the Apollo albums or Sam Cooke live albums.

Speaking of JB, these albums are from 1973:



James Brown - The Payback
James Brown - Black Caesar



Tommie Young - Do You Still Feel the Same Way
Millie Jackson - Hurts So Good

Two of the best female southern soul albums ever cut.

After his early work which I love, The Payback is by far my favorite James Brown.

I'm gonna hafta hunt down that Isaac Hayes.

one of the best ever:

Damn it. I had a long post in process that I lost.

The short hand is:

Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool - a better songwriter than singer but this is still a really nice country soul album with great songs.

Garland Jeffreys - S/T - He can do no wrong. Not his best but still really good and he's backed by a strong cast of allstars here (Dr. John, David Bromberg, Pretty Purdie, Ralph McDonald, Fathead Newman)

Labbi Siffre - For the Children - Another guy that can do no wrong. Not his best but still really good. RIYL: Terry Callier, Bill Withers, Folk/Soul hybrids

Joao Donato - Quem e Quem - Brazilian Baroque Pop masterpiece that once made RS' top 100 of alltime. google videos for a taste. Marcos Valle is on production

Marcos Valle - Provisao do Tempo - More baroque pop. I'm a huge fan of early 70's Valle

Wendell Harrison - Message from the Tribe. I'll buy any early 70's jazz albums from Tribe Records but this is one of the best. RIYL: Archie Shepp, Eddie Gale, early 70's spiritual jazz w/ vocals

Stanley Clarke - Children of Forever - another strong spiritual jazz album with Andy Bey and Dee Dee Bridgewater on vocals.

I could go on and on. It's a really deep year.

Hell yeah.

Surprised at the inactivity in this thread. I could go on for days more. Here's some more:



Leon Russell - Hank Wilson's Back

Leon Russell and a crew of Nashville session allstars including Curly Chalker on pedal steel and Tut Taylor on Dobro playing classic country covers



Judee Sill - Heart Food

Lush baroque string-laden folk pop. Think One Part Carly Simon, One Part Brian Wilson. It's an impressive album that I'd imagine many folks here would dig. I like it but had hoped to like it more than I do given all the praise heaped on her when it first got reissued.



Boris Gardiner - Every Nigger Is A Star

Boris Gardiner was a bassist for Studio One and Byron Lee's Dragonaires in the 60's and later co-lead the Upsetters with Lee Perry. This is one of the small handful of solo albums he released and is the soundtrack for a blaxploitation flick of the same name. It's a mix of reggae and soul. RIYL: Toots and the Maytals, The Chosen Few



Rashaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With a Miracle

One of my favorite Kirk albums.



Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark

An excellent jazz session with some great ensemble players including Pharoah Sanders, James Blood Ulmer and Charles Magee. Varys stylistically from free jazz to soul jazz with eastern and african influences.



Isley Brothers - 3x3

Their best album. Not a bad track on it and worth the price of admission for "That Lady" alone.



Dr. John - In the Right Place

With Allen Toussaint on Production and backed by the Meters, need I say more



Nicky Hopkins - The Tin Man Was a Dreamer

Very good solo album released by Nicky Hopkins, best known as session pianist and frequent sideman for the Rolling Stones. Features guest appearance by George Harrison on lead and slide guitar, Mick Taylor, Klaus Voorman and Bobby Keys. RIYL: early Elton John, John Howard, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, etc.

I've never seen this one mentioned before. Will definitely have to check it out.

I recently ordered Bright Moments (also from 1973) and it should arrive any day now.

Never mind, that's actually from '74. I got it over the weekend, though, and it's excellent. "Pedal Up" is one of my favorite RRK compositions.

I also got this one, which is from '73 (don't think it's been mentioned yet):

Herbie Hancock - Sextant

The predecessor to Head Hunters. It's a little weirder and darker. Halfway through the first track, if I didn't know better I'd swear I was listening to Sun Ra. I've only listened to the whole thing a couple of times, but I'm really digging it so far.