Bobby Wilson recorded his only album 'I'll Be Your Rainbow' on Buddah in 1975 , in three studios across America. The first four tracks were cut at United in Detroit, arranged by Paul Riser and include the killer two stepper 'Deeper and Deeper' , Northern/Modern dancer 'Let Me Put Love Back' , nice ballads 'Hey Girl' and title track. There are two orchestrated mid tempo ballads including 'You Make Me Feel Good All Over' recorded at Sigma Sound in Philly featuring The Jones Girls on backing vocals The remaining tracks were recorded at T.K.Studios Miami including the standout Modern...
What an amazing start we have had to 2025 for new soul music, last week we had Luxury Soul 2025 and this week we have two excellent long awaited new soul albums from October London and Raquel Rodriquez, both have a strong nod to past greats, yet both are very contemporary. These are both likely to sell out fast. We are also in stock of all the superb Cleo Sol albums on LP and CD and all the Sault LPs which have been very hard to find and are also likely to disappear again quite quickly. We are back in...
The first weekend of the year heralds the Luxury Soul weekender and the 3CD Luxury Soul 2025 box set which has arrived this morning. Expansion also has two new 45s from Jean Carne and Paradise Project, available as regular dinked or limited edition full centre DJ copies. Luther Vandross has a new compilation including the four newly discovered unreleased tracks. We are finally back in stock of Cleo Sol's superb 'Gold' and 'Heaven' LPs , her other two albums are due next week. We have also managed to source a few more copies of Larry Saunders' 'The Stranger' Black Friday...
There are some good new releases and reissues this week and loads of great restocks. Myles Sanko has made another great album available as a limited edition Cd and LP, don't sleep on this as we are unlikely to get more once this batch sells out. Soulutions have 3 very limited edition 7" singles and Lynn Davis 'Beautiful You' gets a limited 45 release in a picture sleeve. Jazz Dispensary have released Pleasure 'Joyous' , a brilliant album, available in small quantities, plus Gary Bartz 'Another Earth' on a high quality reissue. We are back in stock of many great titles...
This week for new releases we have a great new album from London soul singer Lynda Dawn called 11th hour, a fantastic album with a brilliant retro soul feel that is in very high demand and very low in supply so make sure you act quick! There is a wicked 7 inch from Eugene Smiley, courtesy of Miles Away Records, a very rare in demand 45 in the collectors scene with a big dancer on the A side and nice stepper on the B. There is also a lovely Christmas album from jazz harpist Amanda Whiting and finally a new...
There are some great albums, reissues and restocks this week. Emilia Sisco has released a few 45s previously but now releases her debut album 'Introducing Emilia Sisco' featuring Cold Diamond and Mink and it's a very good retro soul set and on a similar tip to the Penrose Showcase vol 2, which gets a release on black vinyl and a full sleeve. Marion Meadows returns with another smooth jazz album and Ruby Rushton has a 10" EP. There are three Sergio Mendes reissues, Johnny Hammond 'Gears' 180gm on Jazz Dispensary (very limited), Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson on Acoustic Sounds...
There are some great releases, reissues and restocks this week. Today as you are probably aware is Black Friday RSD and we have 40+ exclusive vinyl editions for the day available in store and online from 8am tomorrow. You can see the list of titles that we have here. There are some great soul reissues including Gil Scott Heron, Gloria Scott, Rhyze, The O'Jays, WAR, Larry Saunders ,Isaac Hayes , Bill Withers and more, Jazz titles from Bill Evans, Monica Linges, Sun Ra , Chales Tolliver, Joe Bataan , Herbie Hancock and more, plus hip hop from NAS, Dead Prez...
Here is the full list of all titles that we are stocking for Record Store Day Black Friday. All products are available to purchase online from 8am on Saturday 30th.
Some good new releases, reissues and restocks this week. We have a new 45 from Elijah Baker plus the new album from Michael Kiwanuka 'Small Changes'. There is a great batch of new reissues in too this week on both the jazz and soul front. There is 'Goldenwings' the 2014 album from Brazillian jazz group Opa, plus McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson's live album 'Force Of Nature' (LP has arrived, CD due in next week). Other great reissues with the likes of Nina Simone's 'Baltimore', Freddie Roach, 'Brown Sugar', Black Nasty, and Isaac Hayes, all getting 180g analogue reissues. There...
There are some interesting new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Roy Ayers Ubiquity first album gets a 180gm reissue on Elemental who also have reissued two classic Wes Mongomery albums . The Chi-Lites 'A Lonely Man' which includes their versions of 'Inner City Blues' and 'Living In The Footsteps' has a welcome re-issue on Brunswick/ORG. There are some classic Blue Note reissues from Duke Pearson, Dexter Gordon plus Blue vinyl Herbie Hancock and Grant Green. There are quite a few nice Soul 45s , three good titles on Numero and two on Ace's new Soul Harmony subsidiary. Pre-order for 30th...
