LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

56 songs, total running time of 160 minutes on this exquisite 3CD set compiling four albums from the end of the '60s by the fiercest couple in pop music (So Fine, The Hunter, Cussin', Cryin' & Carryin' On and Outta Season). The collection contains the four original lps plus four bonus tracks recorded live. So Fine was a strictly hardcore r&b funk album with some of Tina's grittiest vocals on record. The album made little impact commercially due to being so damn raw! The duo issued 8 albums in 1969 of pure soul r&b, riding the wave of their Spector produced masterwork River Deep Mountain High. This massively productive period resulted in their working with producer Bob Krasnow (who was working with Beefheart) Who stripped back their sound on The Hunter to obtain raw-minimal stax funk that sounds electrifying to this day.