Recommend 70s goodness along the lines of Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone...

Bobby Womack albums are dicey. Try the one-disc Best Of on Razor & Tie. I have a 2-disc United Artitsts thing that covers the 60s, too. To hear what a early 70s soul album recorded in the 80s sounds like, check out Womack & Womack's Love Wars.

Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
Millie Jackson - Caught Up/ Still Caught Up et al

Numerous others

Wild Magnolias and Wild Tchoupitoulas albums are both fine too.

Lee Dorsey's "Yes We Can" is excellent '70s funk.

Swamp Dogg's "Fuck the Bomb" comp also good, if a little spotty. "Total Destruction to Your Mind" is his best album-as-album.

The James Brown "Funky People" comps are also pretty essential, as is the 2-CD JBs best-of.

Something I'm into right now is this Mer-Da album on Janus, truly some of the most demented and thrilling '70s funk I've ever heard.

And post-"Disco Lady" Johnnie Taylor needs a good reappraisal...I think it's great.

also: war, aretha (e.g - the young gifted and black album), early rick james (the come and get it album), willie hutch.

Stevie Wonder presents...Syreeta

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:01 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so good

Best $35 you could spend right now:

Bill Withers - Complete Sussex & Columbia Albums Collection Box set
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sussex-Columbia-Albums-Collection/dp/B008S80PCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424719837&sr=8-1&keywords=bill+withers+box

http://fastnbulbous.com/70s-soul/
Donny Hathaway, Terry Callier, Eddie Kendricks, Esther Phillips, The Chi-Lites, Lee Moses, O.V. Wright, Billy Paul, Sam Dees, etc.

William DeVaughn was mentioned a couple times upthread, but I just wanted to opine that the entire "Be Thankful..." album is a solid listen on a par with the single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahP4gyeZVw&list=PL998F2358BB388238&index=3

And this!

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Esther Phillips - Baby I'm For Real – 4 Classic Albums 1971 to 1974 (From A Whisper To A Scream/Alone Again Naturally/Black Eyed Blues/Performance)
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/692494

Ordinary Joe, by Terry Callier

Was reading someone say Michael Kiwanuka is Curtis Mayfield influenced but I hear more Bill Withers and Terry Callier

Thanks to songs on streaming shows , Kiwanuka is developing quite a US following. I am still not won over completely.

Does Kiwanuka need his own thread? His audience is growing in NA for sure but the response on this board is so lukewarm (no mentions in either the album or the tracks poll).
I thought the last one was a lock for one of the best of the year. Much tighter than Love & Hate.

I liked the most recent one too, but something about his retro-ness bugs me. That Daptone like thing. Although his latest goes well beyond that. Also , I am a big fan of the late Mel Waiters, a southern soul singer, who like others on the “chitlin circuit soul thread “ get no crossover attention. That’s not Kiwanuka’s fault though, I must acknowledge.

I get more than a whiff of Radio 2 about Kiwanuka. Which needn't always be a pejorative but...