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Artist:	VA
Title:	South Dallas Pop Festival - Live 1970
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5007CD

Reissued on a division of Stones Throw. "Dallas, Texas, produced some of the finest acts from funk music's golden age. Deep funk legends like Timothy McNeally, Tickled Pink and Soul Patrol all called Dallas home. Until recently, most of their music could only be found on super expensive original 45s or on dodgy bootlegs. Now, with compilations like The Funky 16 Corners and the new Texas Funk, these artists are seeing proper re-release for the first time. Over 70 minutes of professionally recorded, full restored, funky soul music played by some of the best bands in the deep funk business, live in 1970."

Artist:	L.A. CARNIVAL
Title:	Pose A Question
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5009CD

"A full length, unreleased album -- recorded and shelved over thirty years ago. To be released on Stones Throw's reissue subsidiary, Now-Again, L.A. Carnival's Pose A Question LP runs the gamut from superb, psychedelic soul to backbeat-grounded, heavy funk (by way of syncopation and horn arrangements that hint at Fela Kuti influenced Afro-Beat and a politically charged nature that heralds Sly and The Family Stone's groundbreaking early 70s albums). Perhaps the most fully realized unreleased funk album released to date, the Pose A Question anthology has been lovingly restored and mastered, packaged with a 20-page full color booklet, chock full of liner notes, period pictures of the band, and full annotation."

Artist:	EBONY RHYTHM BAND
Title:	Soul Heart Transplant: Lamp Sessions
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5011CD

"The final -- and most exciting -- installment in Now Again Records' LAMP reissue series -- a trawl through the funk catalog of Indianapolis's most prolific soul and funk label of the 60s and 70s. The music has been remastered from the analog master tapes and the band's history has been annotated and culled into extensive liner notes. 'Soul Heart Transplant', the title cut of the anthology, is fitting. The Band couldn't help but transplant their Meters-inspired, psychedelic grooves onto not only their original compositions but also onto any funky tunes from the day. As such, groups like The Doors, Blood Sweat and Tears and Cream all receive a heavy funk workout via the Ebony Rhythm Band. This CD runs the gamut from superb, psychedelic funk to backbeat-grounded, heavy funk."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 1968-1974 Vol. 1
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5017CD

"Compiler Egon's follow up to the definitive Deep Funk compilation The Funky 16 Corners (Stones Throw, 2001). Contains rare and never-before-heard tracks by many artists featured on The Funky 16 Corners including Carleen and The Groovers, Kashmere Stage Band, Soul Seven and Ebony Rhythm Band. Another expertly assembled survey into America's late 60s and early 70s funk scenes of restored and remastered from rare 45s and master tapes for near perfect sound quality. Nearly 80 minutes of both classic and unreleased funk and soul music by some of the movement's unsung heroes -- packaged with a 28 page archival booklet, complete with bonus, CD only tracks."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Texas Funk 1968-1975
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5019CD

"Another collection of lost funk treasures from UK-based Jazzman Records, and its fanatical honchos Gerald 'Jazzman' Short and Malcolm Catto. Texas Funk, now available domestically for the first time, is the definitive look into the funk hotbed that was the late '60s and early '70s Lone Star State. From tough, urban centers such as Dallas and Houston, to the sparsely- populated dots of Pasadena and Longview, one message rings clear -- this expanse offered up musical hopefuls who offered 'black gold' equal or better to their major label peers. Included within are some of the most sought-after deep funk tracks known in the collecting world. There are verifiable funk instrumentals, vocal masterpieces, heavy duty interpolations, and unique covers of classics by The Isley Brothers, James Brown and The Meters. Twenty-one gems in all. Expertly remastered, packaged with extensive liner notes, complete annotation, a historical overview of Texas and its funk meccas, an introduction by DJ Shadow and containing more photos and memorabilia in its 24- page booklet than even the most seasoned funk fiend would expect, Texas Funk is a sure shot."

Artist:	KASHMERE STAGE BAND
Title:	Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	NA 5023CD

"The Kashmere High School Stage Band released a total of eight albums and three 45s on the Kram label under the direction of legendary Texas bandmaster Conrad O. Johnson between the years of 1968 and 1978. All are sought after by collectors and DJs not only because of their rarity, but for their top notch funk quality. This ever-changing crew of high schoolers recorded music that funked with the best of the best -- forget high school bands, we're talking about sixteen-year-old kids who would give the JBs a run for their money! Stones Throw and Now-Again Records resident archivist Egon first reissued the Kashmere Stage Band's namesake funk tune 'Kashmere' on his Funky 16 Corners compilation in 2001. Since then, he's included their music on various compilations, and even issued some vinyl-only re-releases of full length Kashmere albums. Now, Egon presents the definitive anthology of the Kashmere Stage Band as a deluxe 2CD release. Disc one includes remastered versions of both released and unreleased studio tracks. Disc two contains never-before-heard live performances and, as an enhanced CD, a mini-documentary that offers a glimpse into the reissue process that produced the anthology, shot by veteran photographer B+. The 40-page booklet contains extensive liner notes, interviews, archival photos, memorabilia and full annotation."

Artist:	HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL
Title:	Sahara Swing
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5035CD

"Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7", from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now-defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has traveled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not 'world music' -- but an album that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on 'the one.'"

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Artist:	PRICE & THE KEYSTONES, CONNIE
Title:	Wildflowers
Label:	NOW AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5014CD