NEW SERIES ALERT!!!
this one's been on the backburner for some time and could very well find an audience here. I have certainly voiced my disdain for disco music here on many occasions. And to be clear, the disdain stems from a deeper seed than just the candy-assed synthesized sound of the music itself. It comes from the domineering factor it had on the music industry as a whole. The demand for disco by the mid to late 70s was so great, that it simply no longer left room for real soul and funk music to sell. Even the top billing/selling acts were dropping disco albums simply to stay afloat -- many containing maybe one or two real soul songs, or not even. By the time disco finally withered on the vine in the early 80s, nearly a decade had passed. R&B had become electric blues and soul/funk became electro-boogie. The glory days were gone and mountains upon mountains of (mostly terrible or sub-par) wax was left in its wake. Well folks, I've been mining away, polishing what few rare gems I can glean from the shitpiles of records released during this dark, dark time in music history. Culled entirely from recordings within the 1975-85 window, Diamonds From The Rough features real soul music, played by real musicians, with actual instruments. Enjoy.
01. Detroit Emeralds - 1977 - Love Has Come To Me (Westbound LP WB 302)
02. The Chapparrals - 1978 - Country Girl (Maximillion LP MR-1000)
03. Winfield Parker - 1979 - My Love For You (P&L 62142)
04. Ben Moore - 1979 - Keeping In Touch (Roadshow LP BXL1-3443)
05. L.J. Reynolds [w. Memphis Horns] - 1981 - Southern Pearl (Capitol LP ST-12127)
06. Marvin L Sims - 1980 - Blow Away Breeze (Rivertown 498)
07. Tyrone Davis - 1980 - Heart Failure (Columbia 1-11246)
08. Johnny Morisette - 1982 - Love Is Something (Chronicle MJ 5009)
09. Ted Taylor - 1984 - How Could You Do That (Solpugits LP TT-1001)
10. Jessie Butler - 1984 - Best Part Of The Man (Bound Sound LP BS-1008)
11. Bobby Powell - 1981 - I Can't Stop Loving You (Hep' Me 166)
12. Sugar Pie DeSanto - 1983 - How Many Times (Jasman LP JR-121829) [mono]
13. The Escorts - 1981 - Let Love Walk Into Your Heart (Knockout LP KO-1500)
14. Carl Marshall & The SD's - 1980 - Since I Met You (Chantilly LP A.G. 4306)
15. Sammie Relford - 1979 - Hey Love (Space City U.S.A. SPLP-100)
16. Larry Williams - 1978 - One Thing Or The Other (Fantasy LP F-9553)
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