The album features newly remastered demo tracks as well as their best studio recordings

New York’s Electric Lady studios

Culled from a vast archive of recordings

His lyrics are rapaciously intelligent and self-aware

F5: Blues Run The Game (Live)

Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black (180g, 50th Anniversary Edition) Sun Araw The album features newly remasteredTen years into his role as poster boy for pop soul and peak hour R&B, Syl Johnson did an unlikely about face and cut his most inspiring and powerful album. The title track, coupled with the politically charged Im Talking About Freedom and ghetto conscious Concrete Reservation sealed the albums political bonafides. Right On, Together Forever, Come Together, and Black Balloons are positively uplifting, forming their own pot of gold at the end of a