Category: Catalog

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Tracklist:

Side A
1.Loaded to the Gills (Edit)
2.Loaded to the Gills (Bonus Beats)

Side B
1.Loaded Back
2.We The People – Function Underground

Credits:

Original sessions produced by Mike Lenaburg
Reissue produced by Egon

Personnel:

Michael Liggins – vocals, saxophone and flute
Reggie Otero – drums on “Loaded Back”
Don Smith – drums on “Loaded to the Gills”
Bobby Otero – saxophone, probably trumpet
Robert Torres – possible third saxophone on “Loaded to the Gills”
Manuel Ruelas – guitar, background vocals
Popo Otero – possible bass guitar on “Loaded to the Gills”
Rudolph Barnes – bass guitar on “Loaded Back”
Dupa Jack – percussion

12″ Single, Digital. 2004. NA5010.

Tracklist:

Side A
Broasted Or Fried

Side B
Soul Foo Young

7″ Single. 2004. NA7014.

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Tracklist:

Side A
1.Flyin’
2.We Need Peace and Love

Side B
1.(We’d Like To) Pose a Question
2.Seven Steps to Nowhere
3.Blind Man

Side C
1.Can You Hum a Tune
2.Color
3.The Klan

Side D
1.Black Man’s March
2.Ron’s Tune

CD:

01.Flyin’
02.We Need Peace and Love
03.(We’d Like To) Pose a Question
04.Seven Steps to Nowhere
05.Blind Man
06.Can You Hum a Tune
07.Color
08.The Klan
09.Black Man’s March
10.Ron’s Tune Alternate Take

BONUS LIVE TRACKS:

11.Scratchin’
12.Ron’s Tune
13.Bad Luck
14.Blues For L.A.

Credits:

Original sessions produced by Lester Abrams
Reissue (and album’s issue) produced by Egon

Personnel:

Lester Abrams – drums, vocals, organ, acoustic piano, percussion Arno Lucas – vocals, percussion Leslie Smith – vocals Rick Chudacoff – electric bass, backup vocals Ron Cooley – electric and acoustic guitar Geno DeVaughn – trumpet Percy Marion – tenor saxophone, flute Michael Patterson – alto saxophone.

2LP, CD, Digital. 2003. NA5009.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Pretty Music
2. Nani

Side B
1. Roller Coaster Ride
2. Too Much Tenderness

Side C
1. Red Yellow Moonbeams

Side D
1. Sunday’s Song

Produced by Monty Stark

(select songs appear on the Stones Throw/Now-Again album Now; more appear on 2CD version of the same).

2LP, 2CD, Digital. 2003. NA5008.

Introduced by the the Soul Seven’s Charles Hunt, who nicely sums up the last, lost thirty years by proclaiming how great – and underrated – South Dallas’s musical community was, the South Dallas Pop Festival 1970 is one of American soul and funk music’s crowning moments. From the Marchel Ivery Quintet’s funky stab at Cal Green’s rare-groove classic “Trippin” with festival promoter Roger Boykin on guitar, to the Soul Seven’s cover of “Kool and The Gang” to the heady psychedelia of the Black Maffia to the show-stopping Apollo Commanders’ rough, rugged James Brown medley of soul diva Marva Whitney’s “I Made A Mistake” and JB’s own, burly “Low Down Popcorn” – the Festival provides a glimpse into the late 60s and early 70s club nights that would have been the stuff of legend had archivists such as Boykin not chosen to document the proceedings. An incredible archival trawl.

Tracklist:

Side A
Marchel Ivery Quintet – Track 1
Marchel Ivery Quintet – Track 2
Soul Seven 1
Soul Seven 2
Soul Seven 3

Side B
Soul Seven with Eddie Purrell 1
Soul Seven with Eddie Purrell 2
Soul Seven with Monica Harris 1
Soul Seven with Monica Harris 2

Side C
Apollo Commanders 1
Apollo Commanders 2
Apollo Commanders 3
Apollo Commanders 4
Apollo Commanders 5
Apollo Commanders 6
Apollo Commanders 7
Apollo Commanders 8

Side D
Apollo Commanders with Eddie Finley 1
Apollo Commanders with Eddie Finley 2
Black Maffia 1
Black Maffia 2
Les Watson & The Panthers
MC’s Farewell

(All tracks appear on CD issue; all tracks appear in same order).

2LP, CD. 2003. NA5007.