The "Recommend a Slept-On Album that Can Be Found Cheap" Thread
SoulOnIce
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The idea is to let people know a record they may otherwise flip past is actually pretty dope:
I got this one at a thrift for $1 with very low expectations, but this album rules.
Mellow guitar/bass interplay over some very nice drums on some tracks.
The Bach tracks are very cool in their own right as well.
Fans of "Jazz Raga" by Gabor Szabo will definitely feel this one.
I got this one at a thrift for $1 with very low expectations, but this album rules.
Mellow guitar/bass interplay over some very nice drums on some tracks.
The Bach tracks are very cool in their own right as well.
Fans of "Jazz Raga" by Gabor Szabo will definitely feel this one.
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Been recommending this one for 19 years now. Right in the Bill Withers folk-soul bag. He's still around, too...
In most dollar bins, the track 'She Didn't Lie' is beautiful.
Beats yo.
Massive cosign on this. Jeffreys' Ghost Writer was a good one, as well. This included his cult classic "Wild In The Streets."
After you get past the two hit singles (printed in boldface on the cover), this is more psychedelic than you'd expect.
"slow dance on the killing floor"
B/W
despite the folky drawings of acoustic guitars on the front and back covers, and the cornball Harry Chapin-esque album title, this LP is actually funked-up soul jazz from the early 70's with a great band including Cornell Dupree and Ray Barretto. I'm sure it would fall under "tacky funk" for many, but if this LP were on Blue Note it would get sweated, and I have found multiple copies all over the place, for $5 or less every time. I bet if you bid on one on eBay you could get it for like $4. Try getting Jack Wilkins for $4 ...
Good all the way through.
Crosby's solo is definitely not as slept on anymore as it once was, but if you don't already have this one and flip past it make sure to grab it up.
Amazing playing and songs.
Absolutely beautiful playing by the Youngbloods on this LP.
Just beware that once you get a copy you may feel impelled to keep buying every copy you see just to get the cleanest sounding one you can find.
This was Grover's first album, and it's funky like a BITCH. Not quite as cheesy as what he became known for later.
And while we're dwelling on the Kudu label, I may as well cop a plea for Alone Again Naturally and From A Whisper To A Scream, both by Esther Phillips.
I gotta get my ass out to Boston, then, because I've never seen this. At. All.
Heard of it, seen pictures of it, been on the lookout for it, read an old interview with Berliner where he made reference to it, have a Mainstream various-artists compilation that has a really good track from it, but have yet to hold one in my hands. Off to eBay I go!!!
BTW, the Mainstream-label comp I mentioned is a real good dollar-binner, itself...it's titled The Guitar Players. It's a very weird selection that goes way past being "eclectic" and winds up being "a bunch of people that have nothing in common except being guitar players who recorded for Mainstream," but if you can handle urbane jazz pickers, rural blues cats, and Ted Nugent screaming away on the Amboy Dukes'"Baby Please Don't Go," all on the same platter, it's a good listen.
Goatboy, long time no see fella.
It was a thread here that hipped me to this album, it now lives in my 'i really should file these back' pile, but it never makes it back to the expedit, A solid favorite.
$29.99 two copies available
http://cgi.ebay.com/ANAMARIA-MAURICIO-Vol-2-REISSUE-LP-ARTHUR-VEROCAI-/220638810884?pt=Music_on_Vinyl
An excellent LP from first track to last.
yeah, i was gonna say, i'd take a copy for five bucks!
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=jay+berliner+bananas&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Please be serious.
Neither good nor slept on.
PUB ROCK'S LAST STAND.
I said in auction ... dudes floating it out there for $20 - $30 with no takers is not indicative of it's auction price ... I'm just saying, I had two dupes in trade/sale boxes for a while and finally had to FORCE them on friends (just ask AxeFoley from the Strut) ... I guarantee if someone put it up for auction with a $5 minimum bid it could be won for that amount. Anyway, yes I had that same Mainstream guitar comp - that was what made me look out for the Berliner LP in the first place~
Typical Faux - taking pop shots from the parapets. Like I care what you think.
Not really that slept on, but I see it everywhere, and its got some jams and breakz you can play out.
Kashif on the beat? Shit is hot...get familiar
Let's be clear: all you little dudes hold your breath until I speak on an album
Just put one out for $8 two days ago.