Went to Silver Platters in Seattle yesterday and picked up these babies!! All great albums!!! Man, I didn't realize 1.) Buddy Miles was so much more than Jimi Hendrix's drummer. "Them Changes" is a great early/mid 70's funk album, with a few ballads thrown in. Buddy has a wonderful voice, and a tight horn section behind him. Highly recommended! 2.) Allen Toussaint...great, great writer/producer/singer of New Orleans soul. This album contains a few tracks sung by him, and many other sang by various soul singers from New Orleans. Great, great New Orleans soul. If you like Toussaint, early Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, etc., you'll love this! Honestly, I'm not as much into his mid/late 70's albums that are considered his best. I like this early, early comp because it's much more rawer, southern Soul. 3.) Syl Johnson...great Chicago soul singer! This dirty Chicago soul-blues. He's making a bit of a comeback with his "Mythology" box set that just came out (contains many of his seminal 60's albums), but I'm on a budget and can't afford the $75 box set, though it's put out the label Numero Group, who put out those wonderful Eccentric Soul comps, so you know it's gonna be a great box set. This will do for now...4.) Junior Walker and the All Stars "Definitive Collection". Junior was a great saxophone player, definitely a fun album though some of the later stuff is a little too smoothed-down Motown for me (I prefer the rawness of Stax). However, still a good listen and of course "Shotgun" is the first track, ya gotta like that!
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