Mel Tillis - At His Best - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The multi-talented Mel Tillis left us in 2017, but his legacy is well preserved in this greatest hits collection. Early in his career, writing hit songs for others gave him a name, but this gathering finds Mel's own hits from the height of his popularity including InchCoca Cola Cowboy,Inch Lying Time Again,Inch InchBlind in LoveInch and more.

Mel Tillis made his way to Nashville in '57, where he became known as a prolific songwriter as well as a gifted singer. Mel released several records in the '60s and had songs on the best-seller charts. This album features Mel's first #1 country hit, InchI Ain't NeverInch (1972), as well as many of his early '80s country hits including the #1 InchSouthern Rains,Inch InchYour Body Is An Outlaw,Inch InchLying Time Again,Inch InchBlind in LoveInch and his 1981 duet with Nancy Sinatra, InchTexas Cowboy Night.Inch

Soul Jazz Records' Nigeria Soul Power 70 album showcases the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s. Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print collectors' 7' RSD box, this fully expanded album now also includes extra tracks from Sonny Okosuns, Wings, Chief Kollington Ayinla and more. While for many people the fusion of funk and jazz music with Nigerian rhythms and aesthetics began with Fela Kuti and his afro-beat sound, in fact this can be traced further back to the phenomena of the 1960s Nigerian artists and house bands in nightclubs and hotels who interpreted US soul and pop music with a local flavour and none more so than Geraldo Pino, the 'African James Brown' who features heavily in this collection. Other similarly inspired Nigerian funk and soul artists featured here included Tony Grey and his Ozimba Messengers and Don Bruce and The Angels. Nigeria Soul Power 70 includes a number of tracks from the group Wings originally known as BAF (Biafran Air Force) Wings, an army band formed during the Biafran civil war in Nigeria. The groups' heavy mixture of funk, rock and African styles was popular among many Nigerian groups at the time. Beneath the shadow of the few Nigerian artists who signed international recording deals in the 1970s ' Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Chief Ebenezer Obey ' lies of vast wealth of largely undiscovered musical transmutation and cultural cross-pollination, and included here are heavy afro-funk/rock and disco tracks from artists such as the legendary Sonny Okosuns as well as rare cuts from little-known outside of Nigeria - groups such as Colomach and MFB. Most of these obscure artists signed to major labels in Nigeria in the commercial slipstream that opened up as Philips, Decca and EMI tried to emulate the international success of the big three international Nigerian artists. Finally featured here is Kolling