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Saun & Starr's debut album, Look Closer, is out now!

Get it digitally - radi.al/SaunAndStarr
Get it at the Daptone Shop - https://shopdaptonerecords.com/products/hot-shot-gonna-make-time
https://shopdaptonerecords.com/products/look-closer
Listen on Spotify - spoti.fi/1v1RbD3

Recorded with The Dap-Kings, the highly anticipated album was produced by Daptone's Gabriel Roth and features ten original tracks by the duo, including the hit “Hot Shot." The album was recorded at Daptone Records’ House of Soul studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2014.

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Saun & Starr - Hot Shot

Though Bobby Nunn and Eugene Coplin were still teenagers in 1967 when Nunn's father William decided to start his own label, Mo Do Records, the duo didn't let their age stop them from spending their afternoons writing songs and practicing their harmonies. Their single "You Gave Me Love" was the first to be released on Mo Do, and before the label folded in the early '70s due to financial troubles, Bob & Gene, as they called themselves, had become local Buffalo, NY, celebrities. Looking for better musical opportunities, Bobby Nunn eventually moved to California to pursue his career further, singing with Rick James, releasing his own albums on Motown in the '80s, and working as a songwriter for other artists, while Coplin stayed in Buffalo and became an ordained minister. In 2001, record collector and soul music enthusiast David Griffiths came across a 45 from Bob & Gene, a cover of Marvin Gaye's "If This World Were Mine." Intrigued by what he heard, he contacted William Nunn, who then gave Griffiths all of Bob & Gene's old tapes. Believing there was possibility in the collection, Griffiths encouraged the family to allow him to get them released. Daptone Records, a label that specialized in funk and soul, took interest in what Griffiths presented them, and released the full-length If This World Were Mine... in 2007, shortly after the elder Nunn's death.

Bob & Gene - I Can Be Cool

For Record Store Day 2014, Charles Bradley will release a new, four-song 12-inch titled "I Hope You Find (The Good Life)." 

The record was produced by Mr. Tom Brenneck and features the Menahan Street Band and the Sha La Das backing up The Screaming Eagle Of Soul. It’s limited to 2000 copies only!

Tracklisting
SIDE A
1. “I Hope You Find (The Good Life)”
2. “I Hope You Find (The Good Life) (instrumental)”

SIDE B
1. “Electric Victim of Love”
2. “Electric Victim of Love (Instrumental)”

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Charles Bradley - "I Hope You Find (The Good Life)"

With this record, The Como Mamas join forces with the boys of Menahan Street Band (billed pseudonymously here as The Radiant Rhythm Band) to lay bare the funkier side of gospel music. 

“The rhythms we all play were already right there in their vocals,” explains drummer Homer Steinweiss, “so it felt natural to lay down the grooves behind them.” Thomas “T-N-T” Brenneck, the up-and-coming producer who brought us both Menahan Street Band and Charles Bradley, presided over the collaboration, which took place in the old Dunham Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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