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Label sleeve. 1973 reissue. close to NM

Why you'll love it...
"‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’ runs the stylistic gambit without feeling Franklin is doing things just for show. The album isn’t trying to function as a resumé of her skills. Genre shifts feel organic and natural. “Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream” is built on a bossa nova groove, while “Do Right Woman Do Right Man” has a little country ballad flavor. “Dr Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)”—one of four songs penned by Franklin herself—is a bluesy belter. She might have been Queen of the genre, but pigeonholing Franklin in soul is like calling Sugar Ray Leonard just a welterweight. She could shuffle through styles as smooth as velvet. Everything is stamped with her own distinct character."

Japanese pressing without OBI! Gatefold cover is close to VG+ and the record is close to VG!

Monstrous blue-eyed soul / garage double-sider and a must for any rare groove DJ.
250 copies pressed.

Why you'll love it...
Back to Back captures the instrumental aspect of the ’67 Stax-Volt European tour (“Volt” is the name of Stax’s subsidiary label). Immediately apparent is that the live versions of these songs are played much faster than the recorded ones. Exuberant? Definitely! These folks were racing across unfamiliar cultures and landscapes, reimagining their place in this world, looking down at the clouds for the first time. The pace was faster because their lives were — quickly — getting so much larger. In these recordings, you can hear all of that emotional exhilaration, all of that savoring of personal respect, that thrill of the new. Many of these songs were several years old, but they shine on Back to Back like they’re being performed for the first time. Over and over, you hear the musicians throwing in something extra, curlicues and tangents that express their excitement.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with ring, shelf wear

Cover with seam split on bottom spine, ring and shelf wear. Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Cover has tape residue on front cover.

Vinyl is Close to VG+. Original US pressing.

5cm split bottom seam.

Cover has two seam splits and shelf wear.

The Egyptians - Thanks Yo You

Corner cut bottom left corner. Small price tag on cover.

Cover is close to VG+.

Drill hole. Mono pressing.

Vinyl with light scuffs and hairlines

Cover with ring, shelf wear. Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

seam split, Writing on cover.

Iconic 1968 Northern Soul Anthem, One Of The Famed “3 Before 8” As Played Every Sunday Morning At Wigan Casino During It’s 8 Year Reign Coupled With The Original Demo, Recorded By The Writers At The Impact Studio, Detroit, 1965

The Soul Album is the fourth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, released in 1966. It features Redding performing songs that he co-wrote, as well as covers of songs by such musicians as Sam Cooke, Eddie Floyd, Roy Head, and Smokey Robinson. Guitarist Steve Cropper contributed guitar on the album and is also credited as the co-author of three tracks. The Soul Album shows Otis Redding moving from strength to strength in a string of high-energy, sweaty soul performances, interspersing his own songs with work by Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Roy Head ("Treat Her Right"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes a Mistake"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing") and recasting them in his own style, so that they're not "covers" so much as reinterpretations.

Record is close to VG+.

close to NM. 2008 reissue.

Limited green colored vinyl LP pressing.

Japanese pressing. close to NM. OBI is missing.

Cover with light wear.

Still sealed with hype sticker. 2019 reissue.

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

Family vocal group the Esquires was formed in Milwaukee in the late 1950s; by the time they moved to Chicago to launch their recording career the group featured Gilbert Moorer, Alvis Moorer, and Sam Pace and although Curtis Mayfield turned them down, Bunky Sheppard recognised their potential, their debut single ‘Get On Up’ a smash hit that led to the recording of this brilliant debut album, an excellent collection of upbeat melodic soul with the group’s vocal harmonies in the spotlight. Further permutations would follow but Get On Up And Get Away captures the group in its illustrious eginning, full of shining joy. A top-notch release!

Cover has seam split and small tears along the opening edge.

2018 reissue. Tiny wear. Original inner sleeve.

Splits in seams.

When first released Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 promised an uncharted trip beyond the now generation! And it certainly delivered, as soon as the needle drops onto the opening track ‘Flameout’
we are in astral freak-out territory with cosmic strings phased beats & displaced fuzz guitars... Despite being released as a budget label’s take on the burgeoning psychedelic scene Astro Sounds, delivers the real deal.
This is thanks in no small part to the central role played by Wrecking Crew guitarist Jerry Cole. Cole had previously been the involved some L.A. session colleagues and cut his own psychedelic
album: The Inner Sounds of the Id by 'The Id' and was the perfect choice to front Astro Sounds which can be considered a development from the seminal sounds of the Id.
Astro Sounds has suffered from some unofficial releases that offer poor audio quality. This Vinyl Exotica re-issue is remastered from the original tapes and is presented on coloured vinyl

taped spine. Writing on cover.

Vinyl is dense with light surface scratches and scuffs--will likely cause pop, clicks, and/or background noise. Cover with light storage wear.

Record has many hairlines and surface marks.

Sticker on label.
Record is close to VG+.
Cover with faint ring wear and seam split.

US original.

Tear in top spine.

Still sealed. Price tag. Cover has waterdamage stains.

Writing on label.
Cover with punch hole.