This is an enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files including the video for "What's My Name." "Gin & Juice" was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. All tracks have been digitally ...

Recorded between 1969 and 1973. Includes liner notes by Tony Green. This is part of MCA's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection series. Rare Earth's edition of the 20th Century Masters series is a near-definitive collection of their singles for Motown. Over ...

Track Listing: Exhale (Shoop Shoop); Why Does It Hurt So Bad; Let It Flow; It Hurts Like Hell; Sittin' Up in My Room; This Is How It Works; Not Gon' Cry; My Funny Valentine; And I Gave My Love to ...

Motown's THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION series has been widely considered the best of their many compilation series, and The Four Tops entry perhaps the best within that. All their classic hits are represented, ("Reach Out I'll Be There," "Baby I Need ...

Indeed, it is the most wonderful time of the year, and this reissue of 1993's Christmas Interpretations arrives under the Universal 20th Century Masters series, which has launched its own subset of holiday releases. Produced by fellow soulful crooner Brian ...

Spanning the band's early-'70s genesis as an unhinged funk congregation and their later resurgence with urbane R&B balladry and synth-inflected disco, The Very Best of Kool & the Gang may not be a unified collection, but it is the first ...

Live Recording Arrangers: Thom Bell; Andy Calabrese; Randy Waldman; Van McCoy. The Stylistics: Russell Thompkins, Jr. (vocals). Liner Note Author: Russell Thompkins, Jr.

Not long into the ceaseless promotional parade for Born This Way, Lady Gaga's second full-length record and easily the most anticipated record of the 2010s, a certain sense of inevitability crept into play. It was inevitable that Born This Way ...

Warren Haynes has been almost ubiquitous since he joined the Allman Brothers Band, and formed Gov't Mule with Allen Woody and Matt Abts. He's played and collaborated with everyone from the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan to Little Milton and ...

After becoming one of the decade's biggest newcomers with his 2010 debut, hip-hop star Drake makes a fast return with this sophomore album, released a year-and-a-half after the platinum-selling Thank Me Later. Although Take Care builds off the brainy, dynamic, ...

From their early recipe of country harmony, funk, guitar grit, and gospel power to their morphing into a first-rate adult contemporary R&B band, the Doobie Brothers' arc in the '70s and early '80s mirrors that of early FM radio itself. ...

A remarkably versatile singer, Lou Rawls distinguished himself in soul, but was also adept at performing pop, blues, and jazz. This excellent 21-track Capitol compilation forgoes the latter two styles and draws from his 1960s/'70s recordings, presenting listeners with the ...

Recorded from 1976-1985. Includes liner notes by Harry Weinger. Con Funk Shun's brand of funk was polished with spirited horns, titillating guitar rhythms, and ear-pleasing vocals. These 17 tracks encompass the group's tenure at Mercury beginning with their first charted single, ...

A quintessential funk band of the 1970s, Tower of Power was one of the strongest horn-centric large-ensemble groove factories around. The band never really burned out, touring and making new records into the decades that followed, shuffling players as it ...

Not to be confused with the Greatest Hits collection that Columbia released in 1989, this 1991 CD focuses on Billy Joe Royal's Atlantic output of the 1980s. Although this pop and pop-country material on the whole is much too slick, ...

The long-awaited Atlantic debut from rapper Wiz Khalifa features the biggest-selling hip-hop single of 2010, "Black and Yellow," a track that doubled as the unofficial anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers' run to Super Bowl XLV. Follow-up singles "On My Level" ...

Bands that look to the '60s and '70s for inspiration are nothing new in the realm of rock music -- it seems every year, a new group appears that sounds like they thoroughly studied and regurgitated their parents' album collection. ...

Although the duo LMFAO boasted Euro-pop synths and unmissable riffs well before their hit with David Guetta, "Gettin' Over You," it definitely didn't hurt to be featured on a world-wide smash that spent quality time at number one in France ...

Anyone who encountered his numerous mixtapes can tell you that before his official debut landed, rapper/producer J. Cole had spent some time bringing the whole Drake, Wale, and Big Sean style to a more street level. It's worth mentioning because ...

With Inténtalo, the tribal guarachero style -- traditional Mexican genres meet electro beats -- received its first youthful and polished release, one that captures the excitement of this unique flavor of dance music that had previously been made available through ...

Laughing Down Crying is Daryl Hall's first solo album in 14 years. His newest collection maintains his signature songwriting style and draws on pop, rock, and blue-eyed soul, while reflecting a renewed energy -- perhaps due to the success of ...

There's no doubt that by Wild Ones' 2012 release, pop-rapper Flo Rida had become a "singles artist," one who soars high in the three- to four-minute format. Give him thin but clever ideas -- that acoustic guitar riffs might sound ...

Although he may be classified as a rap or hip-hop artist, Mark "Kaz" Kasperczk, operating under the name Redlight King, combines singing and rhythmic patter in a style not so much reminiscent of Kanye West as of Red Hot Chili ...

"Yesterday" is part of a Trilogy of music that will be released over a span of a year from Will Downing. "YESTERDAY" is 4 great remakes. In Feb. 4 original songs will be released on a project entitled "Today" and in June another will be released.

This is Part two of the Musical Trilogy "YESTERDAY,TODAY & TOMORROW". If "Yesterday" is already part of your collection "TODAY" is a must have!! All Original songs written and performed by The Prince of Sophisticated Soul!!! Will Downing Audio Mixer: Ray ...