Rhythm and Blues

Artist: The Supremes Label: Not Now Music

Artist: Yuppicide Label: CARGO RECORDS GERMANY

Artist: Richard Barrett Label: Jasmine Music

Artist: Irma Thomas Label: Not Now

Artist: Roy Thompson & The Mellow Kings Label: Stag-O-Lee

MODERN SOUNDS IN COUTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC VOL.1&2 / 180GRAM Record Label: Vinyl Passion Style: R&B

Artist: Kate Campbell Label: Large River Music

Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS Label: Ace

Artist: Various Label: Stag-O-Lee (Indigo)

Artist: Maxine Brown Label: Jasmine Music

Downloadcode. X-mas can come: here’s the 2nd „About Christmas Songs“compilation. Tracklisting: 1. Talking To Sir Simon – Take Your Time, Valentine 4:02 2. Sunturns – Sunni 3:20 3. The Polyphonic Spree – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 4:15 4. Two Bears North - Fire 3:44 5. Torpus & The Art Directors – River 3:55 6. Town of Honey Rocks – Old Friend 3:33 7. Hundreds - Wonderful Life 5:05 8. Jordan Klassen – Bring A Torch, Jenny 2:25 9. The Culture In Memoriam – Santa’s Song 3:38 10. The Dead South – We Three Kings 3:22 11. Palace Songs – Christmastime In The Mountains 1:39 12. Okkervil River – Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas 6:37 Record Label: DevilDuck Style: Indie Pop

Artist: Joe Jackson Label: +180 RECORDS

Artist: Attila & Lackerschmid; Artist: Wolfgang Zoller Label: Bhm (ZYX)

180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL Jimmy Scott's The Source (1969) is as beautiful and strong today as it was when it was recorded for Ray Charles' Tangerine Records. The lyrical links of "Unchained Melody" are absolutely righteous and the strains of "Exodus" could lead a listener to cry the Red Sea or to part it. While "Motherless Child" aches with orphaned loneliness, "Our Day Will Come" is confidentially encouraging. Jimmy Scott was an American Jazz vocalist famous for his unusually high contralto voice and his sensitivity on ballads and love songs. After a series of successes in the 1940s and §0s, Scott's career faltered by the early 60s. He slid into obscurity before launching a well-received comeback in the 1990s. His unusual singing voice was due to Kallmann's syndrome, a very rare genetic condition. For over 40 years, Scott's frankly feminine registers, delayed deliveries, easy shapings, and full-Soul bellows have been a source of inspiration and style for everyone from Nancy Wilson to k.d. lang, and this album carries that legendary legacy into the 21st century. Record Label: Music On Vinyl Style: Jazz

Artist: Jay Dee Label: Real Gone Music

CD: 12 page extensive booklet, unpublished photos. Night School's issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7" "Don't Fear The Reaper." Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career. Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you've never heard. The innate sadness of the songs' content - the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow - is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall's pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall's vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade's early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group's hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music. Rose McDowall's role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow's East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: "They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power. Record Label: Night School/Forte Style: Independent

Artist: Nightowls Label: Super Sonic Sounds

Artist: BEN E KING Label: VINYL PASSION

Artist: TIMI YURO Label: VINYL PASSION

new album from the Canadian singer/songwriter Chloe Charles Record Label: Make My Day Style: Pop