Soul/R&B

Solange describes her ambitious new full-length studio album A Seat At The Table as "a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing." A Seat At The Table was written by Solange and follows up the Saint Records founder's 2012 EP True. The 21-track 2LP-set features a host of special guest artists including Lil Wayne, Q-Tip, Kelly Rowland, The Dream, BJ The Chicago Kid, Kelela, Tweet, Moses Sumney, Sampha, Sean Nicholas Savage, Nia Andrews, Devonte Hynes and Lu. NPR exclaims, "It's a floating melange of R&B, bold in its quiet and understated sounds, bolder in its message."

Tracks

LP1

1. Rise
2. Weary
3. Interlude: The Glory is in You
4. Cranes in the Sky
5. Interlude: Dad Was Mad
6. Mad
7. Don't You Wait
8. Interlude: Tina Taught Me
9. Don't Touch My Hair

LP2

1. Interlude: This Moment
2. Where Do We Go
3. Interlude: For Us By Us
4. F.U.B.U.
5. Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)
6. Interlude: I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It
7. Junie
8. Interlude: No Limits
9. Don't Wish Me Well
10. Interlude: Pedestals
11. Scales
12. Closing: The Chosen Ones

Charles Bradley Changes on LP + Download

Third Full-Length Following 2013's Universally Acclaimed Victim of Love

Soul singer Charles Bradley's star has been on the rise since the release of his widely praised 2011 debut album No Time For Dreaming, and his ascent has continued long after the release of his triumphant second album, 2013's Victim of Love. Dubbed "The Screaming Eagle of Soul," the singer is proud to present his highly anticipated third album Changes, on Daptone imprint Dunham Records.

The album is named for his popular, "smoldering" (SPIN) cover of the Black Sabbath track. "I think about the lyrics very closely when I sing ‘Changes' and get emotional," notes Bradley. "It makes me think of my mother and the changes in my life since she passed away."

By now, Bradley's remarkable, against-all-odds rise has been well documented: how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs before finally being discovered by Daptone's Gabriel Roth. The documentary Charles Bradley: Soul of America, directed by Poull Brien, follows Bradley's extraordinary journey during the electrifying and transformative months leading up to the release of debut album No Time for Dreaming.

The year following the release of No Time For Dreaming was one triumph after another and Victim of Love saw Bradley emerging from his past heartaches stronger and more confident, overflowing with love to share. Victim of Love went on to receive overwhelming praise and was included on numerous "Best of 2013" lists while the album's title track was also named one of Rolling Stone's "Best Songs of 2013."

Produced by Thomas Brenneck and backed by Menahan Street Band, with Changes, the powerhouse performer brings music fans of all ages another unforgettable set of songs and will continue to bring his live shows to stages around the world.

1. God Bless America
2. Good To Be Back Home
3. Nobody But You
4. Ain't Gonna Give It Up
5. Changes
6. Ain't It A Sin
7. Things We Do For Love
8. Crazy For Your Love
9. You Think I Don't Know (But I Know)
10. Change For The World
11. Slow Love

TRACKLISTING: 01.MAKE A CHANGE 02.SMILE 03.CAN'T KEEP MY COOL 04.GROOVY BABY 05.GIVING UP 06.IS IT ANY WONDER? 07.NOW I'M GONE 08.TUCK 'N' ROLL

Vinyl LP pressing. Gold-Diggers Sound is the 2021 album from Leon Bridges. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles, California studio of the same name. The album celebrates Leon's immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked and drank over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the soon-to-be legendary complex.

• 1 Born Again (Feat. Robert Glasper)
• 2 Motorbike
• 3 Steam
• 4 Why Don't You Touch Me
• 5 Magnolias
• 6 Gold-Diggers (Junior's Fanfare)
• 7 Details
• 8 Sho Nuff
• 9 Sweeter (Feat. Terrace Martin)
• 10 Don't Worry (Feat. Ink)
• 11 Blue Mesas

This double LP from 1976 spent 14 of its impressive 80 week chart run at the Top of the U.S. Billboard 200, where it debuted in October that year, also reaching #2 in the U.K. Featuring a huge ensemble supporting cast, including George Bensen, Herbie Hancock and Michael Sembello, Songs In The Key of Life produced no less than six hit singles, with "Another Star," the frequently sampled "Sir Duke," "I Wish," "Isn’t She Lovely," "As" and "Knocks Me Off My Feet." The highly ambitious and experimental album became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of Stevie's career and it went on to win Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal and Album of the Year. This vinyl version from Universal Records also includes A Something Extra 7" EP.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Love's in Need of Love Today
• 2 Have a Talk with God
• 3 Village Ghetto Land
• 4 Contusion
• 5 Sir Duke
• 6 I Wish
• 7 Knocks Me Off My Feet
• 8 Pastime Paradise
• 9 Summer Soft
• 10 Ordinary Pain
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Isn't She Lovely
• 2 Joy Inside My Tears
• 3 Black Man
• 4 Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
• 5 If It's Magic
• 6 As
• 7 Another Star
• 8 Saturn
• 9 Ebony Eyes
• 10 All Day Sucker
• 11 Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)

20 Highlights from the New Career-Spanning Queen of Soul Box Set including Biggest Hits Plus Previously Unreleased Alternate Takes & Live Recordings!

To say that Aretha Franklin was one of the greatest American artists of all time is an understatement. Her multi-octave voice moved millions around the world during an unrivaled career that spanned six decades and garnered the singer-songwriter every achievement and honor imaginable.

Franklin's reign as the Queen of Soul is highlighted here with the 20-track vinyl 2LP collection. Includes the previously unreleased tracks "Call Me" – Alternate Version, "Until You Come Back To Me" – Work Tape, "You Light Up My Life" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" – Live, which was originally broadcast on The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on 12/19/15. Franklin's biggest hits are here too, like "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)," "Think" and her signature smash, "Respect." But instead of using familiar takes for other hits, the collection selects different versions, like an alternate take of "Chain Of Fools."

Tracks

LP1

1. Never Grow Old
2. Today I Sing The Blues
3. One Step Ahead
4. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
5. A Change Is Gonna Come
6. Respect
7. Chain Of Fools – Alternate Version
8. Call Me – Alternate Version 
9. Rock Steady – Alternate Mix/Take
10. How I Got Over (Single Edit) – Live

LP2

1. Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes)
2. Until You Come Back To Me – Work Tape
3. Something He Can Feel
4. You Light Up My Life
5. Think
6. Freeway Of Love
7. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – Aretha Franklin and George Michael
8. Someday We'll All Be Free
9. A Rose Is Still A Rose
10. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Live

J. Cole's fifth full-length effort, KOD debuted atop the Billboard 200 in April 2018, marking the North Carolina rapper's fifth consecutive No. 1 album. KOD - which stands for Kids On Drugs, King Overdosed and Kill Our Demons - takes us into a new world highlighting addictions of all sorts. The gold certified record is home to the two Top 10 singles "KOD" and "ATM." Cole explains the three acronyms starting with Kids On Drugs, "If I turn on the TV right now, it's not gonna take long for there to be an advertisement that pops up that says 'Are you feeling down? Have you been having lonely thoughts?' And then they shove a pill in your face. The first response of any problem is Medicate." As for King Overdosed he adds, "That's representing me, the times that I was, and am, afflicted by the same methods of escape." And Kill Our Demons, he explains, "That's the end goal: To face our shit, realize that we have some shit going on inside, everybody...whether it be from traumatic childhood experiences, whether it be from a lack of attention, confidence issues, insecurities. Whatever it is, we gotta be honest with ourselves."

1. Intro
2. KOD
3. Photograph
4. The Cut Off (feat. kiLL edward)
5. ATM
6. Motiv8
7. Kevin's Heart
8. BRACKETS
9. Once an Addict (Interlude)
10. FRIENDS (feat. kiLL edward)
11. Window Pain (Outro)
12. 1985 (Intro to "The Fall Off")

The Otis Redding Now Playing compilation contains 10 tracks from across the legendary soul singer's catalog, including "These Arms of Mine," "That's How Strong My Love Is," "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Try a Little Tenderness" and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 These Arms of Mine
• 2 Pain in My Heart
• 3 Mr. Pitiful
• 4 That's How Strong My Love Is
• 5 I've Been Loving You Too Long
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Respect
• 2 Try a Little Tenderness
• 3 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay
• 4 Hard to Handle
• 5 I've Got Dreams to Remember

Vinyl LP pressing. Throughout their career, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings remained in high demand both publicly and privately to recreate and often re-imagine songs by other artists. More often than not, these covers were recorded by request, commissioned for placement in movies, television programs, tribute albums, or for samples. This album compiles some of their most popular as well as never-before-heard renditions. Though the band has mostly built their career on a prolific catalog of originals, these forays into other artists' compositions lay bare their gift for arrangement and the unmatched studio prowess that earned them their reputation as The Baddest Band in the Land.

• 1 Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
• 2 Little By Little
• 3 Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in)
• 4 Here I Am Baby
• 5 What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• 6 Take Me with U
• 7 This Land Is Your Land
• 8 Inspiration Information
• 9 Giving Up
• 10 Rescue Me
• 11 In the Bush
• 12 It Hurts to Be Alone
• 13 Trespasser

The Weeknd -"After Hours" - LP Vinyl - EXPLICIT - The Weeknd's latest chapter via XO/Republic Records, After Hours, features global hits like "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights". Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. As a result, the multi-platinum two-time GRAMMY® Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful and significant artists of the 21st century. Double LP Set housed in gatefold jacket packaging.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Alone Again
• 2 Too Late
• 3 Hardest to Love
• 4 Scared to Live
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Snowchild
• 2 Escape from la
• 3 Heartless
• 4 Faith
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Blinding Lights
• 2 In Your Eyes
• 3 Save Your Tears
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Repeat After Me (Interlude)
• 2 After Hours
• 3 Until I Bleed Out

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming on LP

Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska, singing and performing in his spare time, before re-settling in his hometown of Brooklyn and eventually finding a musical home at Dunham/Daptone.

In his distinctively rough-hewn timbre one hears the unmistakable voice of experience, each note and gruff infection a reflection of his extended, sometimes rocky, personal path. It's only fitting that No Time For Dreaming's producer Thomas "Tommy TNT" Brenneck (also a member of The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band) would recognize in Bradley a kindred musical spirit, a singer whose performances exude both raw power and poignant beauty.

Recorded at Dunham Studios, and mixed at Daptone Records' internationally revered "House of Soul" Studios, No Time For Dreaming is the inspired sound of an awakening.

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming Track Listing:

1.  The World (Is Going up in Flames)
2.  The Telephone Song
3.  Golden Rule
4.  I Believe in Your Love
5.  Trouble in the Land
6.  Lovin' You, Baby
7.  No Time for Dreaming
8.  How Long
9.  In You (I Found a Love)
10. Why is it so Hard?
11. Since Our Last Goodbye
12. Heartaches and Pain

UK double vinyl LP pressing. 2009 collection that incorporates material from their recordings with the Westbound and Warner labels. 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of Funkadelic's first release and this compilation celebrates that landmark. Over a period of 12 years from their Westbound debut album to the release of 1981's the Electric Spanking of War Babies, Funkadelic, piloted by George Clinton, redefined the way that black music was recorded and presented. They scored 20 R&B chart hit singles and a dozen chart albums, but their influence was far greater. Standing on the Verge includes the two #1 R&B singles 'One Nation Under a Groove' and '(Not Just) Knee Deep', sample favorites such as 'I'll Bet You' and 'Undisco Kidd' and dance floor monsters such as 'Cosmic Slop' and 'Better By the Pound'. 

Tracks

• 1 Cosmic Slop
• 2 Standing on the Verge of Getting It on
• 3 You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
• 4 One Nation Under a Groove
• 5 Better By the Pound
• 6 Sexy Ways
• 7 Loose Booty
• 8 (Not Just) Knee Deep
• 9 A Joyful Process
• 10 Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good
• 11 Can You Get to That
• 12 Maggot Brain
• 13 I Wanna Know Is It Good for You
• 14 I'll Bet You
• 15 Hit It and Quit It
• 16 Red Hot Mama
• 17 I Got a Thing You Got a Thing Everybody Got a Thing
• 18 Comin' Round the Mountain
• 19 Let's Take It to the Stage
• 20 Undisco Kidd

Double white colored vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1972, Amazing Grace cracked the Billboard Top Ten upon it's release, making it one of the bestselling gospel records of all time. Grace was recorded in a large Baptist church with an ultra-enthusiastic, loving audience in the pews and a full, funky, band as well as the Southern California Community Choir under the direction of her mentor Rev. James Cleveland. Now on 2LP, White Vinyl, Amazing Grace is the third live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on June 1, 1972 by Atlantic Records, It ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a Double Platinum certification. As of 2013, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Aretha's entire fifty-plus year recording career. The double album was recorded at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972. It won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. The LP is the biggest selling live gospel album of all time.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Mary, Don't You Weep
• 2 Medley: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You've Got a Friend
• 3 Old Landmark (With Rev. James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir)
• 4 Give Yourself to Jesus
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 How I Got Over
• 2 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• 3 Amazing Grace
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Precious Memories (Reprise)
• 2 Climbing Higher Mountains
• 3 Remarks By Reverand C.L. Franklin
• 4 God Will Take Care of You
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Wholy Holy
• 2 You'll Never Walk Alone
• 3 Never Grow Old

The Dock of the Bay is the first of a number of posthumously released Otis Redding albums, and his seventh studio album. It contains a number of singles and B-sides dating back to 1965 and one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". In 2003, the album was ranked number 161 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967-once just days before his death in a December 10, 1967, plane crash. It was released after his death on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It charted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song with the help of Stax producer and Booker T and the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper. The song features mimicked seagull whistles and sounds of the waves crashing on the shore.

• 1 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay
• 2 I Love You More Than Words Can Say
• 3 Let Me Come on Home
• 4 Open the Door
• 5 Don't Mess with Cupid
• 6 Glory of Love
• 7 I'm Coming Home
• 8 Tramp
• 9 Hucklebuck
• 10 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
• 11 Ole Man Trouble

Limited 180 gram vinyl pressing of this 1973 album from the soul icon. Let's Get It On is the 13th studio album by Marvin Gaye. Serving as Gaye's first venture into the funk genre and romance-themed music, Let's Get It On incorporates smooth soul, doo-wop, and quiet storm. It has been noted by critics for it's sexually suggestive lyrics, and was cited by one writer as "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded." Following the breakthrough success of his socially conscious album What's Going On (1971), Let's Get It On helped establish Gaye as a sex icon and furthered his mainstream appeal. It produced three singles-the title track, "Come Get to This", and "You Sure Love to Ball"-that attained Billboard chart success. Let's Get It On became the most commercially successful album of Gaye's recording career, and it further expanded his creative control during his tenure with Motown.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Let's Get It on
• 2 Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
• 3 If I Should Die Tonight
• 4 Keep Gettin' It on
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Come Get
• 2 To This
• 3 Distant Lover
• 4 You Sure Love to Bal
• 5 Just to Keep You Satisfied

Deluxe Edition Colored Vinyl 2LP+7"-Set with Original Album Plus 11 Bonus Tracks including 3 New Songs, 4 Covers and Unreleased Live Material!

Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton. The latter is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern.

Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas' weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became "the hottest party in town" (Austin-American Statesman). Produced by Quesada in his home studio and colored by Burton's dark imagery and haunting vocals, their Grammy-nominated eponymous 2019 debut is equally as indebted to East Coast hip-hop as it is to classic funk and soul, resulting in a project that is of the moment rather than retro. From the roiling, solar eclipse-inspired noir of "Black Moon Rising" to the ponderous yet epic "Oct 33," it's a stunner.

This Deluxe Edition reissue of their debut features the original album plus eleven bonus tracks, three new original songs and four covers, plus unreleased live material. The colored vinyl 2LP-set comes complete with a bonus 7" single, new artwork and unpublished studio and live photographs.

Tracks

LP1

1. Black Moon Rising
2. Colors
3. Know You Better
4. Fire
5. OCT 33
6. Stay Gold
7. Old Man
8. Confines
9. Touch The Sky
10. Sweet Conversations

LP2

1. Fast Car
2. I'm Ready
3. Red Rover
4. Black Cat
5. Politicians In My Eyes
6. Colors (Live In Studio)
7. OCT 33 (Live In Studio)
8. Confines (Live In Studio)
9. Know You Better (Live At C-Boys)

Bonus 7" Single

1. Eleanor Rigby
2. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City