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v/a - eccentric soul vol. 2 (the bandit label) - numero group - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. The Arrows - We Have Love
2. The Arrows - The Love I See Now
3. The Arrows - Boogedy Boogedy
4. The Arrows - Bring Back The One I Love
5. Johnny Davis - You've Got To Crawl To Me
6. Sandy Cleveland - My Heart Will Never Lie
7. Sandy Cleveland - We Love Together
8. Linda Ballentine - You're A Habit Hard To Break
9. Linda Ballentine - Glad About That
10. Altyrone Deno Brown - Sweet Pea
11. Altyrone Deno Brown - If You Love Me
12. Chosen Few - Lift This Hurt
13. Chosen Few - You've Been Unfair
14. Hassan - Ghetto King
15. Majestic Arrows - One More Time Around
16. Majestic Arrows - Love Is All I Need
17. Majestic Arrows - Doing It For Us
18. Majestic Arrows - Going To Make A TIme Machine
19. Majestic Arrows - Ladies & Wonderful Girls
20. Majestic Arrows - I'll Never Cry For Another Boy
21. Majestic Arrows - We Love Together
22. Majestic Arrows - Another Day
23. Majestic Arrows - The Magic Of Your Love
24. Majestic Arrows - Going To Make A Time Machine (instrumental)
25. MASO - Poon Tang Thump
26. Altyrone Deno Brown - I Will Find You
27. Altyrone Deno Brown - The Eclipse Of Love
28. Wind - Don't Let Them Tell You
29. Wind - People
30. Majestic Arrows - One More Time Around
31. Majestic Arrows - Love Is All I Need
32. Majestic Arrows - If I Had A Little Love
33. Majestic Arrows - Make Yourself Over
34. Majestic Arrows - I'll Never Cry For Another Boy
35. Altyrone Deno Brown - Through I Was A Playboy
36. Darnell Jones - Come Back Home

A story that could almost be fiction. The house passing as a home, the harem passing as a family, the rising star brutally murdered in his prime, the dream, the con: The end.

Arrow Brown inhabited the same southside Chicago landscape as Afro-Noir author Iceberg Slim's ghetto characters, taking inspiration from the same dark sources that shaded Airtight Willie, White Folks, and Blue Howard. Drawn to the underground and fancying himself a rogue entrepreneur, Brown and his Bandit label lived somewhere between money laundering outfit and sex cult. He poured proceeds from his many "daughters" straight jobs into making records by the Arrows, the Majestic Arrows, Johnny Davis, Linda Balentine, Hassan, Chosen Few, Sandy Cleveland, and even his seven-year-old son Altyrone Deno Brown. Putting beauty and genius in front of commercial viability, Arrow laid down lush, sweeping strings to lure the listener into a hipster fantasy world, sharply incongruent with the sometimes-criminal reality of the city that dreamt it. This triple LP reissue features every known song ever recorded by Brown, and includes a 14,000 word paperback novella detailing the twisted and beautiful fantasy world he created around himself.