VARIOUS - Shaolin Soul Episode 4 (2021 reissue)

Because Music

£25.04

Format: 2LP + CD
Catalogue No.: BEC5907113
Release Date: 29 Oct 2021 (back in)
Genre: Soul

Tracklist: A1. Esther Phillips – That’s All Right With Me / A2. Al Green – I Wish You Were Here A3. Eddie Kendricks – Intimate Friends / A4. Sylvia – Sweet Stuff A5. Betty Wright – Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do A6. The Ambassadors – Ain’t Got The Love Of One Girl (On My Mind) B1. The Dynamics – Get Myself High / B2. Carolyn Sullivan – Dead ! / B3. Brenton Wood – Trouble B4. The Floaters – Float On / B5. Faze-O – Riding High C1. Ernie Hines – Our Generation / C2. Jerry Butler – I’m Your Mechanical Man C3. J.J. Johnson – Keep On Movin’ (Vocals by Martha Reeves & The Sweet Things) C4. Monk Higgins & Alex Brown – A Good Man Is Gone (Vocals by Barbara Mason) C5. The East St. Louis Gospelettes – Have Mercy On Me D1. Jean Plum – Here I Go Again / D2. The Staple Singers – Let’s Do It Again / D3. The Sylvers – Only One Can Win D4. Della Humphrey – Don’t Make The Good Girls Go Bad / D5. Freda Payne – I Get High (On Your Memory) D6. Carla Thomas – What The World Needs Now CD features the same tracklist in the same order.

Duke Ellington once said that there are 2 kinds of music: the good one and the bad one. With the compilation series “Shaolin Soul” we are always certain to be on the right side of the line since its 1st episode released in 1998 and which compiled two dozens of tracks sampled by RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan. Following a second episode in 2001 and a third one in 2014, the famous curator Uncle O is back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Shaolin Soul series with a fourth episode compiling 22 tracks among the rarest and finest treats of soul music, because “everybody’s talking about the good ol’ days !”.