![]() Listening to this 34-track, 155-plus minute compilation is both a painfully effective lesson in just how much classic music is passing quietly out of the annals of history into the hearts and minds of the far-too-few, and, for someone whose musical knowledge covers a wide range of contemporary artists and genres but falls off fairly quickly after the late ’80s (like mine), a shock akin to that probably experienced by anyone getting an eyeful of the story J.K. The Isley Brothers could be the definition of the supreme (and supremely important/influential) artists who never really saw the financial rewards, or for that matter the international renown, that their wonderful music and years spent hustling on the chitlin’ circuit should have brought them. “Somebody please take me back/to when the artists were poor/’cos when they made less/they gave us/ so much more” sings Tanya Stephens on the opening song of her wonderful recent album.
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