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Spoonie Gee
"Godfather of Hip Hop"
Tuff City continues to be the
destination where the most highly evolved crate diggers find their treasures.
Like long dormant oil wells, every few months an old TC release turns
into a gusher in the estimation of these cognoscenti.
The latest accolades surround
the 1985 recording of Spoonie G's "Street Girl" as told in 'Street's
Disciple' in the current, the venerable Wax Poetics (#29).
Described as a song whose verses
"have not been equaled by any rapper of any generation," Mark McCord's
highly laudatory piece affords Tuff City nine of Spoonie's 15 greatest
jams, 13 of which can be found on the Tuff City CD Godfather of Hip
Hop (OSF CD 4014)
The piece also lauds the work
of Davey DMX for his production of "Street Girl" and for his own
DJ masterpiece "One for the Treble," available on a Tuff City CD
(OSF CD 4005)
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NEW RELEASE
Cousin Joe
"I Never Harmed An Onion"
The iconic singer-piano player
Cousin Joe sustained a show business career for over 50 years, from
singing on the sidewalks of New Orleans to the most esteemed concert
halls of America and Europe. His final recording "Relaxing
in New Orleans" was released on the local Great Southern label, on
a run limited to vinyl that has long since disappeared.
For "I Never Harmed an Onion,"
(NTI CD 7159) Tuff City has gone directly to the label's master tapes
to double the size of the original album with almost a half hour more
of unreleased material.
The essential New Orleans literary
publication Off-Beat called this album "not only important as a
historical document of Cousin Joe's playing and of New Orleans solo
piano style from the mid 20th Century, but as a great collection of
songs in and of themselves." (April 2008)
NEW RELEASE
Trouble Funk
"Drop The Bomb"
When Trouble Funk's Robert
Reid passed away recently, he warranted a New York Times obit.
That is how much Trouble Funk mattered to music, as they were the creators
and foremost practitioners of the Washington DC go-go sound.
Trouble Funk were almost alone
among the funk bands whose performance aesthetic survived and was in
fact shaped by the all night long demands for disco DJ-ing and the unadorned
beat heaviness of Hip Hop DJ-ing through the seventies and eighties.
With the release of "Drop
the Bomb" (DEL CD 0065) Tuff City continues issuing the group's storied catalog. Featuring some of the group's
greatest hits like Drop the Bomb, Say What, Search & Destroy, Get
Down with Your Get Down, this CD is a perfect companion to E-Flat Boogie
(DEL CD 0030) as a complete retrospective of the group's greatest
recordings.
Various Artists
"A Fecund Fistful of Funky Delicasies"
Tuff City's Funky Delicacies
imprint has combed the label's archives of rare and unreleased funk
recordings to extend its Fistful of Funky Delicacies series.
"A Fecund Fistful of Funky Delicasies"(DEL
LP 0040) along with "A Furred Fistful"(DEL LP 0041) and "A Fourth Fistful"(DEL
LP 0042) will all be filled with rare and unreleased funk recordings
and will feature newly illustrated covers by the legendary Stozo the
Clown, who was second only to Pedro Bell as George Clinton's artist
of choice during Parliament/Funkadelic's 70's prime.
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NEW RELEASE!
Lenny Lacour
"Walkin' The Bullfrog"
The genre of fifties rock &
roll is so well covered by other labels that it takes a project of significance
to get Tuff City to enter the competition.
With "Walkin' the Bullfrog" on Tuff City's Night Train imprint (NTI
CD 7160) the career of a singular,
inimitable rock n' roller, Lenny Lacour, is brought into high
relief. Lacour made great recordings, contained by rock 'n roll's aesthetic
embrace of weirdness in the fifties. But as he progressed into the sixties,
Lacour's recordings were revealed to be just plain weird.
Culled from over six different
labels, this anthology is highlighted by Lacour's own contribution
to the extensive liner notes and unreleased recordings from his personal
collection.
Night Train wagers that
listeners will not forget being exposed to Lenny Lacour, an American
original.
45 King
"The 900 Number"
The 900 number continues its
ever greater ascent up the ladder of entertainment industry significance.
This once humble breakbeat was just tapped for inclusion in the sound
track of the most recent Will Smith movie "Hancock", with a
remix by
Santana producer and Cut Chemist collaborator T-Ray.
The New York Times recently
described the Will Smith movie as "his personal ATM machine". The 900 Number is the perfect compliment to
Smith's superhuman fight scenes. Check for it early into the movie!
Tuff City is readying for Fall
release a 20th anniversary edition of this musical phenomenon
with new remixes and accapellas.
NEW RELEASE!
Gene Anderson
"The Hi-Rhythm Sessions"
The recent accolades afforded
Al Green's new album, "Lay It Down," were due to his recapturing
of his legendary Hi sound, which characterized all his hit recordings of the 70's.
With the release of "Hi-Rhythm
Sessions" (STS CD 6362) Tuff City's Soul-Tay-Shus imprint becomes
the first label ever outside of HI (or its owners) to reissue recordings
from the peak years of this legendary Memphis music label.
Gene Anderson is well known
to soul and funk enthusiasts for the rare recordings he did for various
Memphis and St Louis labels. These previously unreleased,
circa 1974 recordings done at Hi, featuring pristine mixes directly
from multi-tracks, are absolutely the equal of almost all other Hi recordings.
Tuff City is readying an anthology
of Anderson's funk and electro recordings, "Cold Blooded Games in
the Ghetto." Anderson's career continues
to go strong as a key member of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic.
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