I’m going to go ahead and declare this the greatest modern soul record to ever come out of Stockton, California, based solely on the frenzy my listing it on eBay caused over the course of five days. On the first day, several hours after listing the record, I started to get e-mail after e-mail—from mainly [...]
Traditional Scottish songs sung by the tender tenor voice of Andrew Sneddon…
Latin Soul from the street and from the heart …
Dave Porter is a complex man.
Smart sweater vest boogaloos.
Obscure and amazing Latin Rock/Funk from the Bronx, N.Y. on the Salsa label.
$500 good
For your dancing and listening pleasure.
A “Top 5 Cotique” according to some, and I wholeheartedly agree…
Manny Corchado is probably now best known for his brash boogaloo tracks “Pow Wow” and “Chicken and Booze,” which go for good money in OG, 7-inch format. Burned out on boogaloo, though, I bought this album hoping to hear some of the more interesting Latin sounds that timbales player Manny Corchado and his orchestra cooked [...]
Pretty great boogaloo. Yeah.
My first impression of this record was that it sounded kind of “dated” and “hokey,” but I think I was just listening with the wrong ears …
Everything about this record is right…
Extraordinary, unusual, original …