The Friends of Distinction - Real Friends (RCA 1970)

My favorite of theirs is Grazin' but i think i had seen that one posted somewhere else so im sticking with this one. i dont know what happened with the images, but now that theyre uploaded i dont want to bother rotating them and re-uploading.

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East St. Louis Gospelletes - A Jesus Affair (Nashboro 1975)

for the time being ill be posting images of the front and back cover of my lps. i suspect ill begin to get lazy once the new camera i got ceases to be new and ill just start posting pics from the internet. by the way, not every album that i have posted/will post, is from my personal collection. some of them are from soulseek.

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Billy Butler & Infinity - Hung Up On You (Pride 1973)

Today I realized that the Betty Crutcher album I posted a while back had already been posted on doctor okeh's blog. its getting harder and harder to pick out albums that haven't ever gotten exposure on blogspot, but heres one that we can be sure about. I know because i scoured blogspot for a while looking for this one and never had any success. fortuntely i searched ebay for it at exactly the right time and was able to pick it up for a fair price. i didnt have any plans on sharing this one but i finally got to ripping it and thought why not... now that the links are private theres no reason to withhold any records from yall!

im going to be re-ripping these albums in teh future, once i get a better turntable (one should be sitting on my desk by this time next week). for the time being, heres a rip of this rare chicago soul album by billy butler!

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Johnnie Taylor - Raw Blues (Stax 1969)

More Stax.

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Eric Mercury - Electric Black Man (Atco 1969)

Here's a nice record by the Canadian-born artist Eric Mercury. After recording this album, he put out a couple records on the Stax subsidiary, Enterprise. I've got both of those too, I'll post them eventually.

I have made the download links private cus too many people were downloading posts that were getting 0 comments. I've emailed everyone who had made comments til now an invitation (trabkuv, get at me, i couldnt find your email) to the google groups.

Anyone else who is looking to join this is how its going to work -- in exchange for access to the downloads you've got to 1) agree not to post these links anywhere else, and 2) be willing to share records from your collection that have never been blogged. its pretty simple; youll gain a lot of dope records in the future if you are willing to share what you have with the community.

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David Porter - Victim Of The Joke? An Opera (Stax 1971)

dusty groove says

During the 60's, David Porter was one half of the highly successful Stax writing team of Hayes/Porter (Isaac Hayes was the other half.) This album is one of three that he recorded for Stax as a performer after his split with Ike, and it's probably the best of the bunch -- even if it is a strangely baroque mixture of dialogue, sound effects, and straight out soul singing. The album includes Porter's legendary "I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over", which has been sampled many times, plus the tracks ""Human", "Pretty Inside", "Storm In the Summertime", "When You Have To Sneak", and "If I Give It Up, I Want It Back"

I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over has been sampled by gza's 'duel of the iron mics' and biggies 'who shot ya?'

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Bill Cosby - Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (Uni Records 1971)

dusty groove says:

A funky masterpiece from Bill Cosby -- hardly the sort of record you might expect from all of his years on mainstream TV! This set was cut back when Bill was a much hipper cat on the LA scene -- and it was the start of a brief all-instrumental run with his Badfoot Brown ensemble -- a group who's not named in the notes on the record, but who offer up some seriously funky grooves! Bill supposedly plays keyboards himself -- some really mad electric piano that's often repetitive, cyclical, and really hypnotic -- a tripped-out style that's more funk than jazz, and which is easily one of the best parts of the record. But the rhythms are great too -- equally hypnotic, and build up from bass, organ, guitar, and this whomping sort of drum part -- echoing strongly in the background and really bringing a spooky feel to the set. Side one includes the amazing "Martin's Funeral" -- sampled famously by Tribe Called Quest, and a 15 minute jam that's inspired by the funeral of Martin Luther King. Side two features "Hybish Shybish", an even longer track that's sort of an improvised jazz game -- and which features tripped-out instrumental trading that's simply amazing. The whole record is really mindblowing -- a messed-up jam session that's well worth the legend that's been built up around it over the years -- and we're hard-pressed to think of another album like it! And as a special bonus, the package features these really long notes written by Bill Cosby himself -- words that are as unusual as the music, and a side of him that's hardly been shown again

this album is nice, no doubt about it. a couple weeks ago i passed over a bill cosby music album by bill cosby and this band because i thought i had it. now, i know that 1. i dont have it, 2. apparently its rare as hell cus i cant find anything about it online and its not up on ebay. i cant even remember the title of the album but it WASNT silver throat, sings hooray, jam sessions with quincy jones, disco bill, or this one. the cover had a lot of blue on it, but thats all i remember. damn. anyway, bill cosby plays the electric piano on this. dont sleep.



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Booker T & The M.G.'s - McLemore Ave (Stax 1970)

EDIT: i just realized that someone else put this album on their blogspot last month. my bad, i didnt know that. anyway, this is a high quality 320 kbps rip so you might wanna take it anyway.

the beatles' abbey road + booker t's organ + stax = mclemore ave. there are a few moments where this record tops abbey road, imo.

ill take this moment to give a short synopsis of where i see this blog going in the future. i havent put too much thought into it, but id like to see another blog that looks like throwback 2.1 when it died, except for a few changes. the basic idea is that everyone in the community is expected to contribute in order to download. i think that this is the best route to take because i know that many people (myself included) are reluctant to make all their best records available to the general public, but would like to share them with grateful, like-minded collectors. if theres an incentive that is more powerful than appreciation from comments (ie: others will post albums that you might like) then more people will be willing to open up their collections.

id like to have all the download links only available through a google groups page that only members have access to, while keeping the blog public so that other people can see whats going on here in case theyre interested in joining. all members would have the ability to make posts to the blog so that they can write whatever theyd like, whenever theyd like. i think the google groups would be helpful because ive been wanting to have a place where all users can post their "wanted albums" list and have requests filled by other users in the community.

for the time being, im going to keep it public so that we can attract some more readers. let me know what you think, and any ideas that you might have. peace out

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Billy Butler - Guitar Soul (Prestige 1969)

This records a relatively rare joint from one of my favorite guitarists, billy butler. you might be familiar with his older brother, jerry butler, but itd be a shame to sleep on billy cus he carved out an impressive style of his own throughout his career. hes mostly known as a session musician but he did put out a few solo records during this period.

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Della Reese - Live (ABC 1966)

dusty groove says

One of Della Reese's greatest records -- and a unique little session cut "live in the studio" before a very appreciative crowd! Bobby Bryant wrote out some very hip charts for the session, and they're made even better by organ work by Bill Doggett and piano lines by Gerald Wiggins -- both of whom are in Della's group on the record. The whole thing's got a very nice groovy feel -- similar to some of the best pop jazz coming out of LA at the time -- and titles include "Gotta Travel On", "Girl Talk", "Driftin Blues", "Good Morning Blues", and "Detour Ahead"

some of you have have heard her record 'black is beautiful.' that albums got a cover the charles wright track 'comment' which i dig, more so for the song selection than the musical content. that isnt to say it isnt great; you should all check out that album. this one too.

expect more albums this weekend!!

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Bobby Byrd - I Need Help (Polydor 1970)

Produced by James Brown.

This is the only solo album of his from the funk era that i know of. Bobby Byrd was married to Vicki Anderson and was one of the founders of The Famous Flames

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Bettye Crutcher - Long As You Love Me (Stax 1974)

Tracklisting:

A1		Long As You Love Me
A2		When We're Together
A3		Passion
A4		A Little Bit More Won't Hurt
A5		Sunday Morning's Gonna Find Us In Love
B1		Sugar Daddy
B2		Call Me When All Else Fails
B3		Up For a Let Down
B4		So Lonely Without You
B5		Sleepy People

rare stax. dont sleep on this one

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Ethel Ennis - 10 Sides of Ethel Ennis (RCA 1973)

straight forward vocal jazz. pretty boring in my opinion

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