Outside the Box with Poundcake Buckemwheatflea Podcast

Happy Record Store Day! Well in honor of today's festivities I'll be loading up a bunch of new old music I picked up from my friend Fred "Fonk" White Bass player supreme from the group DU-O. Check out their new single "Grace Slick" in today's podcast. Available 5/15/12 on my new label C'Kret Records. Head over to the store and check out the vinyl being posted all weekend.

Pre-order your copy before the 5/15/12 release date and get an autographed poster with a free mp3 download of "Grace Slick" along with a bonus 45 and mp3 download of DU-O's release "Fact" on RysQue' Records.

Pre-Order Link http://outsidetheboxmusic.bigcartel.com/product/du-o-grace-slick

Alton McClain & Destiny - It Must Be Love
Isley brothers - Who's That Lady (First Version)
Goodie - Do Something
Quazar - Funk and Roll (Dancin In The Funkshine)
El Chicano - Viva Tirado
Cold Fire - Party Hardy
Maceo & All The Kings Men - Got to Getcha
John Roberts - Sophisticated Funk
Vibrations - Cause You're Mine
The 5 Stairsteps - Danger! She's A Stranger
The whispers - Planets Of Life
Rene & Angela - I Love you More
Willie Hutch - Talk to Me
Cold Fire - Badder Than Bad
Patrice Rushin - Feels So real
DU-O - Grace Slick

In this episode were going to get down with some 60's soul. I met Ted this week and he had a killer collection of 60's soul he asked me to sell for him. So here they are some absolutely cool 60s soul records. Look for these and others in my online store http://outsidetheboxmusic.bigcartel.com/ If you hear something you want contact me and let me know. don't delay these are going to move quick.

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Get Out
Emanuel Lasky - Crazy
Eddie Wilson - Toast To The Lady
Patti Labelle and Her Bluebells - Danny Boy
Sonny Oliver - Kee Moe Sabee
Soul Continentals - Goobah
The Decisions - I Can't Forget About You
Sonny Oliver - Rockin Chair
Juanita Williams - Baby Boy
Shirley Lawson - Sad Sad Day
Ronnie and the Pomona Casuals - I Wanna do The Jerk
The Decisions - It's Love That Really Counts
Sly - Buttermilk pt 1
Montego Joe - Fat Man
The Stylettes - My Boy
Freddie Goman - Take Me Back
The Delfonics - You've Been Untrue
The New Bloods - Self Service
Soul Continentals - Bowlegs
June and Donny - I Thank You Baby
The Casanova Two - We Got To Keep On
Francois and The Anglos - Mimi
The Casanova Two - I Was a Fool
Muddy Waters - My John Conquer Root
Jo Ann Garrett - A Thousand Miles Away
Juanita Williams - You Knew What You Were Getting
Dee Dee Sharp - There Ain't Nothing I Wouldn't Do For You
Jo Ann Garrett - Just Say When
Barbara and Brenda - A Special Kind Of Love
Jimmy Hughes - I Want Justice
Dave Cortez - The Question (Do You Love Me)
Springers - I Know Why
Eddie and Ernie - That's The way It Is
Marva Josie - Birthday Fella
Rico and The Ravens - Don't You Know
The Stylettes - You'll Go First
Eddie and Ernie - Time Waits For No One
Barbara and Brenda - You Don't Love Me Anymore
Shirley Lawson - So Much To Me

Picked up a nice batch of tasty biscuits a couple of weeks ago from a guy in Grass Valley Ca. Most Items are for sale.

http://outsidetheboxmusic.bigcartel.com/category/new-arrivals

Kool & The Gang - Open Sesame
Maze - Color Blind
South Side coalition - Get Down get down
The New Birth - I Can Understand It
Millie Jackson - I Got To try It One Time
Billy Butler & Infinity - I Don't Want To Lose You
Denise LaSalle - Here I Am Again
Sly & The Family Stone - Frisky
Leon Haywood - Strokin
Friends Of Distinction - I Need You
Contagious - Music Freak
Ann Sexton - You Gonna Miss Me
James brown - Slaughter House
Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Live)
Love Peace & Happiness - Stripped Me Naked
South Side Coalition - The Power
The Lovelites - Love So Strong
David Ruffin - No Matter Where
The Mad Lads - Gone! The Promises Of Yesterday
The Undisputed Truth - Show Time
Shalamar - Games
The Skull Snaps - All Of A Sudden
Gene Chandler - Tomorrow I May Not Feel The Same
The Isley Brothers - Lay Away
Lenny Williams - Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh!
Jackie Wilson - Whispers
Bobby Womack - California Dreamin'
Towana & Total Destruction - Wear your natural baby
The Soul Investigators - Broadway
Mickey & The Soul Generation - Chocolate
Parliament - Aqua Boogie
DU-O - Fact
The Heavy Heads - Hawaiian Silky

Big sale New Years Day to celebrate the opening of the new store. Outside The Box Records. Stop by and check things out and see what's hitting the chopping block New Years Day. http://outsidetheboxmusic.bigcartel.com/

The new single from RysQue Records "FACT" by the group DU-O has just arrived and will be available 1/1/2012.

Be sure to check out "Poundcake's Crates" for some cool records for cheap. There's even talk of a $2.00 box. Guess you'll have to be there to see for yourself.

The third single from RysQue' Records RR- 003 more 80s Modern Soul "C"KRET" by Tim Tucker and Fishnets by Oakland based band Davinity Produced by Ben Johnson of Beat Electric. Now available through People Potential Unlimited.
http://ppu.bigcartel.com/

Got a sale going right now on ebay. Everything start for .99 cents. Check it out. http://www.ebay.com/sch/boxc5/m.html?item=130588854835&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562

The second 45 single from RysQue' Records due out this Oct/Nov. Duo is Freddie "Funk" White and Erika "EDL" Lawrence. Straight out of Oakland. Check it and please leave some feedback.

The new single from RysQue Records Check it out

http://ppu.bigcartel.com/product/pierre-veronica-cherri-snow-so-in-love-rysque-001

Well it's that time again I gotta thin the collection. Bounce over to the ebay store. You can hear audio clips of the items for sale. http://myworld.ebay.com/boxc5

Have You Ever Heard of Shuggie Otis?
Here's another unsung music great that I have discovered recently. Shuggie Otis was a child prodigy of sorts, the son of R&B pioneer Johnny Otis. By his mid-teens he was playing guitar on Johnny's recordings and had become a much sought after session player. Much like Terry Reid, Otis is also a mysterious figure who was criminally under-recorded. He only recorded three records of his own (and one duet record with Al Kooper) in the early to mid-70's, and then dropped out of the music scene, other than participating in the occasional session here or there. Supposedly he has a new record out later this year, but we'll see.

By his teens, he was being praised as a rising guitar great, and he was also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and singer. Al Kooper was the first to give Shuggie top billing, teaming with him for 1969's Kooper Session Featuring Shuggie Otis, Kooper's follow-up to his legendary Super Session with Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. It is a decent blues-rock set and features some fine playing from Shuggie. But he came into his own with his 1970 debut, Here Comes Shuggie Otis. While most of it is fairly straightforward blues or R&B influenced rock, the instrumental suite "Oxford Grey" is a dizzying blend of musical styles, jumping from blues, to funk, to baroque, to psychedelic...with Shuggie playing funk electric one minute, and delta slide acoustic blues the next. It is a tour de force showpiece heavily influenced by late period Hendrix. That and the psychedelic influenced "Jennie Lee" are worth the price.

His follow-up, 1971's Freedom Flight, was an impressive step forward, finding Shuggie creating an impressive mishmash of rock/blues/soul/funk/jazz. The title track veers convincingly into Miles Davis-fusion territory, a 13-minute journey that compares favorably with Miles's moody In a Silent Way. This record also features Shuggie's most famous tune, the R&B/psychedelic gem "Strawberry Letter 23," later covered and made a huge hit by the Brothers Johnson.

Shuggie took several years to craft his next record, the remarkable 1974 release and cult classic Information Inspiration. He wrote and arranged the entire record, playing every instrument except the horns and some strings. This record is why we still talk about Shuggie. It takes the rock/blues/soul/funk/jazz/psychedelic mix of the previous record and turns mere disparate influences and elements and then blends them into a seamless new whole. There are no hits here, the record works as a whole piece, a psychedelic soul masterpiece. It was also the last record he put out. He retreated into family life and only appeared as an occasional session musician, turning down offers to tour as the guitarist for the Rolling Stones and to work with Quincy Jones. Apparently he is readying a new self-produced and self-recorded album for later this year. An infectious Shuggie R&B single with a killer guitar solo popped up on iTunes last year called "If You'd Be Mine." So perhaps we have not heard the last from Shuggie Otis.

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