From the album "Pity for the Lonely" on LocoBop Records. "To The Other Man" was was cut in 1972 and written by Luther with Randy Stewart.

Luther Ingram - To The Other Man

‘Intimate Storm’ was produced and written by Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks for their Soundtown label in 1984, spawning four R&B chart songs, including "This Love," which cracked the Top 40. This great album highlights Shirley’s inimitable voice performing eight wonderfully soulful songs.

Shirley Brown - This Love

‘Intimate Storm’ was produced and written by Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks for their Soundtown label in 1984, spawning four R&B chart songs, including "This Used To Be Your House," which cracked the Top 40. This great album highlights Shirley’s inimitable voice performing eight wonderfully soulful songs.

Shirley Brown - This Used To Be Your House

Jerry Butler has recorded more than 50 albums in a career spanning four decades; his voice is one of the most instantly recognizable in all of music. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer reprises ten of his greatest hits on Brand New Me – but none of the tracks are generic “re-records” or “sound-alikes.” Indeed, they are worthy, new versions of the originals, every bit as enjoyable, and "the Ice Man" is as warmly soulful as ever.

Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself

The Barkays’ 45-year career produced 27 albums (5 gold and 1 platinum), 37 singles (28 in the Top Ten) and membership in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Lead singer Larry Dodson and bassist James Alexander rekindled the group in the 1990s, and they continue performing today.

The Bar-Kays - Attitude

The Bar-Kays - Freak Show On The Dance Floor

The Bar-Kays - Do It

Carla recorded 6 albums for Stax between 1961 and
1971, including the 1967 Otis Redding collaboration,
King and Queen, and generated a number of charting
singles, such as the 1966 hit, B-A-B-Y. This version was recorded live at a 2,000 year-old Roman amphitheatre in Vienne, France during Carla’s 2003 European tour. 

Carla Thomas - B - A - B - Y

Luther Ingram's most prolific period was 1970 - 1978 for Stax/Koko Records, charting with Let's Steal Away to the Hideaway, I'll Be Your Shelter in Time of Storm, I'm Trying to Sing a Message to You, Always, I'll Just Call You Honey, Do You Love Somebody, and others. This track appears the LocoBop album entitled (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right. 

Luther Ingram - I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time Of Storm)

J. Blackfoot was recruited by Isaac Hayes and David Porter (famed for their Sam & Dave productions) to sing lead in a new vocal group, The Soul Children (who scored 15 R&B hits between 1968 and 1978). After the group split up, Blackfoot began his career as a solo artist, produced by Stax colleagues Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks. Success came with the R&B smash 'Taxi'.

J. Blackfoot - Taxi

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Butler (“The Ice Man”)reprises one of his mega-hits of the seventies - "I Stand Accused". Isaac Hayes covered this song a few years later and enjoyed a mega hit himself with Jerry's composition. From the LocoBop album Brand New Me, by Jerry Butler.

Jerry Butler - I Stand Accused

After stints with the Bar-Kays and the Soul Children, J. Blackfoot embarked on a solo career under the production guidance of former Stax colleagues Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks. Among the numerous chart successes resulting from this partnership, "Sunshine Lady" is a ready favorite, still gaining popularity almost 20 years after its release.

J. Blackfoot -  Sunshine Lady

J. Blackfoot got his break as vocalist with the Bar-Kays. Next Isaac Hayes and David Porter recruited him to join the Stax vocal group The Soul Children. After a succession of gold records, Blackfoot went solo, signing with Soundtown Records, owned by former Stax colleagues Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks. This song, from the album U-Turn, followed Blackfoot's 1st solo hit - Taxi.

J. Blackfoot - I Stood On The Sidewalk And Cried

J. Blackfoot -  Way Of The City

‘Boyfriend’ was written by Ranches Hall, Henderson, Thigpen and James Banks and produced by Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks for their Soundtown label in 1984. The album it appeared on, Intimate Storm, spawned four R&B chart songs, which cracked the Top 40.  Soundtown is now digitally distributed by LocoBop.

Shirley Brown - Boyfriend

‘Boyfriend’ was produced and written by Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks for their Soundtown label in 1984. The album it appeared on, Intimate Storm, spawned four R&B chart songs, which cracked the Top 40. Soundtown is now distributed by LocoBop.

Shirley Brown - I'm Up To No Good

The Barkays were formed in 1966; their first single, "Soul Finger," for Stax/Volt Records in early 1967. The record made the Top 20 Pop and Top 5 R&B charts. En route to a gig on December 10, 1967, four members of the Barkays were killed in the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding. The surviving Barkays reformed the band, which went on to become a popular funk act, consistently scoring R&B hits through the end of the 1980s.

The Bar-Kays -  She Talks To Me With Her Body

Papa Don McMinn was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. For years, his band had the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. His blues guitar prowess is equal to his vocal delivery. This is one of his fans' instrumental favorites.

Papa Don McMinn - Things Are Changing

The Bar-Kays are an R&B, Soul, and Funk group with staying power. Formed in 1966 they're still recording and performing fifty years later.  'Anticipation' is featured on their "Greatest Hits" album released by LocoBop.

The Bar-Kays - Anticipation

Jerry Butler has recorded more than 50 albums in a career spanning four decades; his voice is one of the most instantly recognizable in all of music. Here, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer reprises one of his greatest hits from his LocoBop album entitled Brand New Me.

Jerry Butler - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)

J. Blackfoot sang lead in the Soul Children (who scored 15 R&B hits between 1968 and 1978 on the Stax label in Memphis). When the group split up, Blackfoot began his career as a solo artist, produced by Stax colleagues Homer Banks and Chuck Brooks. Success came with the R&B smash 'Taxi´ followed by 'Just One Lifetime.’


J. Blackfoot - Let Me Put You Up For The Night

Dwayne Dopsie (pronounced "Doop-sie"), the son of Zydeco King Rocking Dopsie, remains faithful to Zydeco's roots while infusing new musical ideas and variations of Zydeco rhythms into his output - from South Louisiana Swamp Pop to mainstram funk, R&B, and reggae.

Dwayne Dopsie Reloaded

Beast of Burden

Dwayne Dopsie - Beast Of Burden

An early hit by Luther Ingram puts him in the same league with Sam Cooke as a "Sweet Soul Singer." From the album "Quintessential" on LocoBop Records.

Luther Ingram - Pity For The Lonely

The original, classic soul ballad hit from Luther Ingram on LocoBop Records.

Luther Ingram - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right

Timeless, smooth soul from the Masqueraders album "In Love" on LocoBop Records.

The Masqueraders - I'm Just an Average Guy - LocoBop Records

Dobie Gray's more mellow interpretation of the Percy Sledge hit, from Soul Romantix Vol. I on LocoBop Records.

Dobie Gray - When A Man Loves a Woman - LocoBop Records

From the album Blue's Man's Ball Vol. I on LocoBop Records, Eddie Floyd powers his way through the self-penned Trouble In Our Home

Eddie Floyd - Trouble In Our Home

The Masqueraders reprise their performance of "A Change is Gonna Come" which brought the house down on America's Got Talent last year, and scored a resounding "yes” from each of the four AGT judges.

The Masqueraders’ genesis goes back over fifty years when a group of high school buddies in Dallas, Texas formed the singing group. The Masqueraders have since evolved into one of America’s iconic vocal groups. Still very actively writing songs, performing, and recording, they now are based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Their new EP, produced by Bobby Manuel,  is available for sale and streaming worldwide. It was released by Kudzu Electric Records in late April 2018 and contains three versions of "A Change is Gonna Come", including the instrumental backing track.

The Masqueraders - A Change is Gonna Come

Three elite Memphis musicians collectively make up Third Man. They were behind the ubiquitous "Dog Police" MTV Video in the early 1980s; they've since performed and recorded with a Who's Who of famed artists. Third Man's genre is Easy Jazz fronted by a Ray-Charles-ish organ and featuring a most soulful tenor sax. This release is their instrumental version of the Patsy Cline classic "I'm Walking After Midnight".

Third Man - Walkin' After Midnight

From the phantasmal land of Neris, Serah V.3, laments the coming of the Last Dawn. The existence of this misted world has been ephemeral; its story will no longer go on.

Neris: The Last Dawn

Serah V.3 - Neris: The Last Dawn

The Loco Electric Orchestra might easily have been called the Loco Eclectic Orchestra, since its musical output flits between styles at as the mood of director Tim Whitsett changes, revealing a diversification you’d expect from someone who has worked with song catalogs ranging from Otis Redding, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Chuck Berry, and Bobby Blue Bland to Gilbert & Sullivan, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin. Here Whitsett settles on an electro-latin style, of sorts.

Mexican Honey

Loco Electric Orchestra, Tim Whitsett - Mexican Honey

Title track from Tommy Dardar's posthumously released album, "Big Daddy Gumbo" is a Louisiana-Gulf Coast party track for the Swamp and Beach music set.

Tommy Dardar - Big Daddy Gumbo

New Orleans Mystics offer their version of "Love the One You're With" - from Sound of New Orleans Records and LocoBop Digital Media.

The New Orleans Mystics-Love The One You're With

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Susanne first recorded at age 19. On this project, "Light in the Long Run", She was backed by other native Memphians, Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn from the Stax era, along with the Pointer Sisters, singing backup.

Susanne Jerome-Taylor - Light In The Long  Run

Anonymous studio musicians jam after a session is completed.

Sweet Lucy Anna

Midnite Jam Band - Sweet Lucy Anna

From LocoBop & Sound of New Orleans Records: R.I.P. Lionel Batiste, bass drummer, vocalist, and co-founder of the Treme Brass Band. He died July 8, 2012, at age 81. Batiste used his drum to stay afloat in the Hurricane Katrina floods. He was frequently seen on the HBO series ‘Treme.’

The Treme Brass Band - I Got A Big Fat Woman

The Masqueraders are one of the smoothest (and most enduring) vocal acts - their hits range from romantic ballads to uptempo disco era movers. "(Call Me) The Traveling Man" is one of our favorite ballads, from the album "Unmasked" on LocoBop Records.

The Masqueraders - (Call Me) The Traveling Man

Tim Whitsett's Caterpillars celebrate the occasion when the girl says "Yes!" Recorded in Mississippi during the year of the Mama Llama.

She Said Yes

Tim Whitsett, The Caterpillars - She Said Yes

Whispers, Rumbling, Grumbling, Mumbling; The Rumors Crescendo in a Terrifying Roar.

Rumors of War

Tim Whitsett, The 4 Peas - Rumors of War

The LocoBop label launched in 2008; genres include Classic Soul, R&B, Jazz, New Orleans, Blues, Roots, Zydeco, Cajun, Country, Easy Listening, Semi-Classical, Latin, Dance, Funk, Gospel, World, Pop, Dixieland, Brass Band. Artists include:	Eddie Floyd, Luther Ingram, The Barkays, Jerry Butler, Shirley Brown, Ivory Joe Hunter, Treme Brass Band, The Masqueraders, Dobie Gray, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, J. Blackfoot, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, The Jumpin' Chi-Chis, Don Nix, Di Anne Price, G.G. Shinn, Ruby Wilson, Papa Don McMinn, Mighty Chariots of Fire, Randy Brown, Tommy Tate, Mike Vax Big Big Band, Original Dixieland Hall Jazz Band, Fern Kinney, The Mad Lads, Percy Mayfield, and many more!

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