Kashmere Stage Band - Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 - 2xCD+DVD

Label: Now-Again Records
Genre: Funk / Soul
Format: 2xCD+DVD

Deluxe Edition w/ Bonus DVD!

Now-Again Records announces an expanded deluxe edition of its Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 anthology, to be released in conjunction with the Jamie Foxx-produced, award-winning documentary Thunder Soul: The True Story of Conrad Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band.

After capturing audience awards festivals like SXSW and the Los Angeles Film Festival, the word is out that Kashmere was the greatest high school band - ever. Their story is tucked in between slabs of hard 70s funk, soul, and jazz: Conrad Johnson transformed a bunch of rough-hewn high schoolers into a band that could compete with any in the nation – professional, or otherwise. Forget high school bands, we're talking about sixteen year old kids who would give the JBs a run for their money!

The Kashmere Stage Band released a total of eight albums and three 45s on Johnson’s Kram label. The band’s best tracks are collected here – in an anthology now expanded into a 2xCD + DVD deluxe edition. Producer Eothen “Egon” Alapatt features an expanded booklet with updated liner notes and essays, more rare photos and ephemera, and a DVD which contains the B+ / Flying Lotus produced Texas Jewels: The Making Of Texas Thunder Soul short, a recently unearthed 1973 documentary on the band, and a 1972 performance.

DISC ONE
1. Boss City
2. Burning Spear
3. Take Five
4. Super Bad
5. Keep Doing It
6. Thunder Soul
7. Do You Dig It, Man?
8. Headwiggle
9. Do Your Thing **
10. Scorpio **
11. Thank You **
12. Al's Tune
13. All Praises
14. Shaft
15. Kashmere
16. $$ Kash Register $$
17. Zero Point Parts 1 & 2 (45 Version) *
18. Getting It Out of My System

DISC TWO - LIVE RECORDINGS (all previously unreleased)
1. Intro
2. Zero Point
3. All Praises / Zero Point (Reprise)
4. Intro
5. Do You Dig It, Man?
6. Don't Mean A Thing
7. Thank You
8. Ain't No Sunshine
9. Do You Dig It, Man?
10. All Praises
ALTERNATE TAKES:
11. Thank You (45 Version)
12. Zero Point (LP Version)
13. Do Your Thing (Instrumental)
14. Getting It Out Of My System *

DVD: Texas Jewels: The Making of Texas Thunder Soul
1. Texas Jewels: The Making of Texas Thunder Soul
2. Kashmere Stage Band on Bubbha Thomas's "Jazz: Alive And Kicking" In Houston (1972)
3. Prof. And His Band: A Documentary by Charles Potter (1973)

* previously unreleased
** previously unissued extended version