Marvin Gaye Live! is the second live album issued by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released on June 19, 1974 by Tamla Records. In 1973, Gaye released his greatest-selling album, Let’s Get It On, which made him the biggest-selling Motown artist during his lifetime. Motown Records, Gaye’s label for over a decade, had long wanted Gaye […]
Slow Dancer is the sixth album by Boz Scaggs, originally released by Columbia in 1974. The album was released with a cover photo of Scaggs walking on the beach on the front and a head and shoulders shot lying on the beach. The photographs were taken by Annie Leibovitz. Tracks 1 You Make It So […]
First time together on stage and recorded live in Tokyo. Session greats Larry Carlton and David T. Walker did a tour together in 2015. Tracks 1 Burnable (Larry Carlton) 10:332 Nite Crawler (Larry Carlton) 6:423 March Of The Jazz Angels (Larry Carlton) 6:514 Soul Food Cafe (David T Walker) 7:485 A Place For Skipper (Larry […]
Airways is an album by The Whitney Family (Glynn, Nick, Phillip and Ellis Ray (Ray-Ray), and daughter’s Tracey, Cozette (Cookie), and twins Louise & Louanda), released in 1977. Tracks 1 Get Closer To My Music (Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson) 3:21 2 Music To My Heart (Francine Myrna Neiman, Gary Night) 2:55 3 Watcha Gonna Do […]
Peabo is the debut album by soul vocalist Peabo Bryson. Luther Vandross was the backing vocalist. Released in 1976 on Bullet Records, this was Bryson’s only album with the label before moving on to Capitol Records. Capitol subsequently took control of the rights to this album and the rest of his Bullet recordings released and […]
I’ve Got the Cure is the eighth studio album by the American singer Stephanie Mills. The album was released in 1984 and was Mills’ last release on Casablanca Records. It contains the track “The Medicine Song”, which reached number one on the Billboard Dance Chart. In 2013, the UK’s Cherry Red Records reissued I’ve Got […]
Pressin’ On is the fifteenth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1982. It was his final album released on Motown Records, although he would briefly return to the label in 1986 to record one single (“Since I Held You Close”). The song “I’m Never Gonna Say Goodbye” was used for the Ed Asner/Jodie Foster […]
Gimme Shelter is the debut album by Merry Clayton, released in 1970 Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones […]
Black Byrd is a 1973 album by Donald Byrd and his first for Blue Note Records produced by Larry Mizell, assisted by his brother, former Motown producer Fonce. In the jazz funk idiom, it is among Blue Note Records’ best selling album releases. The title of the album inspired the name of Byrd’s apprentice group, […]
Miss Gladys Knight is the debut solo album by Gladys Knight, released in 1978. Tracks 1 I’m Coming Home Again (Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager) 4:21 2 Medley: Sail Away/Freedom For The Stallion (Allen Toussaint, Randy Newman) 4:31 3 I’m Still Caught Up With You (Tony Macaulay) 3:57 4 It’s A Better Than Good Time […]