JAMES BROWN / SUPER BAD LIVE - Brown toured relentlessly. He performed five or six nights a week throughout the 1950s and '60s, a schedule that earned him the title "The Hardest-Working Man in Show... more

Nine Pound Steel - The Best Of Joe Simon 3 CDs/ 61 Tracks: Call Joe Simon the reluctant soul star. Despite his mountain of hits during the 1960s and '70s, his heart just wasn't into his work, aural... more

SAM & DAVE / SOUL CLASSICS - 2 CD Set / Contains Previously Unreleased Material. In the summer of 1964, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records was attending a DJ convention in Miami. Florida record man... more

IKE & TINA TURNER - BOLIC SOUND SESSIONS - Following the success of Ike & Tina Turner, Turner had the finances to create his own recording studio which he called Bolic Sound. The name Bolic derived... more

The sound of this comp is unassailable, as these tracks have been remastered from the original source tapes. As for the music: this is the most comprehensive set yet to spotlight the early... more

Two CDs. Almost every musical history contains at least one crucial forebear whose inventions were too bold to translate to a broad audience, but who was nonetheless a profound influence on... more

This 38-track set spotlights the early years of King Curtis, when the Texas sax man established himself as the new tenor king of New York. His 1962 smash "Soul Twist" joins more of his sessions for... more

Here they are, one of the mighty pillars of Motown: the original Four Tops—Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Peyton—live in concert. They sound sublime on "Baby I... more

The most complete collection yet for Bobby Robinson's pioneering R&B/blues labels: 75 tracks, a 20-page booklet and star after star after star! Only 2000 copies will be pressed, so hop to it; Fury's... more

Nashville's the capital of country, but Music City has produced some outstanding soul singers, too. Roscoe was one of the finest of 'em all; his first proper compilation includes his mid-'60s R&B... more