The June issue of Black Grooves has now been posted at www.blackgrooves.org<http://www.blackgrooves.org>
This month we're featuring the newly re-mastered, expanded and enhanced edition of Little Richard's 1957 classic album Here's Little Richard<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8256> plus three more compilations: The Best of Perception & Today Records<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8149>; The Clovers: The Winley Recordings 1957-62<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8046>; and Mixed Sugar: The Complete Works, 1970-1987<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8203>, which includes the funk, soul, and disco catalog of Flint, Michigan producer, singer/songwriter Regional Garland.
New gospel releases include Marvin Sapp's inspirational DVD/CD I Win<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8285> and Take 6's One<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8217>, featuring the a cappella gospel-jazz quartet's own unique arrangements of traditional spirituals and gospel standards.  New blues releases include B.B. King's DVD/CD <http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8280> Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8280> and newcomer Gary Clark, Jr.'s The Bright Lights EP.<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8176>
Under the broad category of world music are two new CDs: Meditations<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8289> by the Nazarenes, an Ethiopian-born Swedish-based roots reggae group, as well as South African rapper Spoek Mathambo's Afro-futurist sophomore album Father Creeper<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8211>. Other rap albums include Mobb Deep's Black Cocaine EP<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8156>, DJ Quik's The Book of David<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8166>, Seattle duo THEESatisfaction's awE naturalE<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8228>, UK rapper Tinie Tempah's Disc-Overy<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8234>, Homeboy Sandman's Subject-Matter<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=7902>, and Wordsmith's Father's Day themed project King Noah<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8197>.
Other reviews this month include Robert Glasper Experiment's Black Radio<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8183>, the new Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921-1955<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8315>,  jazz vocalist Gregory Porter's Be Good<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8192>, and Acousmatic Sorcery<http://blackgrooves.org/?p=8243> by Chicago-based lo-fi "outsider" artist Willis Earl Beal.
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Brenda Nelson-Strauss
Editor, Black Grooves
Archives of African American Music & Culture
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