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VA - SOUL CAL - Funky Disco & Modern Soul - 1972-1984

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The definitive survey of America’s best, independent 70s soul-ensembles. 15 rare and unreleased tracks.

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1.	Luther Davis - You Can Be A Star 04:37	buy track
2.	UPC All-Stars - Don't Get Discouraged 03:32	buy track
3.	Pure Essence - Wake Up 06:08	buy track
4.	Anubis - Ecology 04:00	buy track
5.	Rhythm Machine - Put A Smile On Time 03:53	buy track
6.	Ellis and Cephas - I'm Gonna Miss You Girl 02:51	buy track
7.	Mixed Sugar - Bad Feelings 03:03	buy track
8.	Record Player - Free Your Mind 03:50	buy track
9.	Mixed Feelings - Sha-La-La 03:28	buy track
10.	Leon Mitchinson & The Eastex Freeway Band - Love Is (Full Version) 04:17	buy track
11.	Clifford Nyren - Keep Running Away 02:56	buy track
12.	Stanton Davis and Ghetto Mysticism - Things Cannot Stop Forever (Remix) 06:06	buy track
13.	C. Henry Woods - The Stranger (Edit) 08:33	buy track
14.	Freedom Express - Get Down 03:28	buy track

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A decade in the making, Soul Cal is the definitive survey of America’s best, independent, 70s soul-ensembles. Profiled within this album and book are the bands that transitioned from funk to disco; the bands that kept up the backbeat as rhythm moved to the backseat. Against the odds, they left recorded artifacts for we at Now-Again to dig out, dust off and restore. Collected here for the first time are the musical dreams of dozens, dreams that were deferred but were never discarded.

Soul Cal is presented as both a gatefold 2LP and a CD – both formats come with a perfect-bound, 80 page book printed on heavyweight, uncoated paper stock. Photos of each format are presented below; you can also download Luther Davis’ “You Can Be A Star” – the song whose reissue kick started the Soul Cal series ten years ago.

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released March 1, 2012

This compilation produced, annotated and researched by: Egon.
Liner notes by: Egon, except for Mixed Feeling entry by Jason Perlmutter, Mixed Sugar entry by Ronnie Reese and Key and Cleary entry by David Griffiths.
Restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley and Kelly Hibbert for Elysian Masters, Los Angeles and Barcelona.
Art direction by Mathew Boyd.

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Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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