Joe Bataan -Drug Story -Now Again LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1. DRUG STORY
2. LATIN SOUL SQUARE DANCE
3. (GOODBYE ADIOS) ROBERTO CLEMENTE
4. MY VOWS TO YOU
5. SIGUE TU VIDA
6. SOMEONE LIKE YOU
7. SCHOOL IS IN
8. NEVER LISTEN TO YOUR HEART
9. A PART OF A FOOL

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Rare and unreleased material from Joe Bataan and his Ghetto Records vaults, including an entire side of Bataanâ??s neverbefore- issued Latin Funk that spans the gamut from Salsa to Soul. Drug Story was inspired by true events and ranks highest among Bataanâ??s finest achievements as the poet laureate of El Barrio. Ghetto Records was Joe Bataanâ??s way to get over on â??The Manâ? and out of the â??hood, a bold move by an artist looking for independence and creative control in an industry that had exploited his talents and treated him like chattel. As Bataan puts it today, â??Ghetto Records was part of my journey, a stepping stone to everything else that Iâ??ve done. I learned enough that it enabled me to get out of the box with my thinking, it showed me how to deal with adversity.â? Like many dreams and schemes born of the street, this one was audacious, perhaps even reckless to a fault. Hatched from desperation yet full of hope Ghetto Records came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in its discography languished out of print - until now. These are the definitive reissues of these albums, licensed from Joe Bataan, with his oversight and input into a 16 page oversize book by Pablo Yglesias that details Bataanâ??s larger-than-imagination life and his little Latin label that could. -

(P)(C) 2023 Now Again Records, Under License From Joe Bataan. Made in Czech Republic. A1 Unreleased (rejected) track. Written by Joe Bataan. A2 Alternate unreleased (rejected) version of track issued on Fania Records ? 644J in 1972. Written by Joe Bataan. A3 Originally issued on Viterect Records,V-7011 in 1973, by [a736939] Written by Mamie Seldom. B1 & B2 Originally issued on Ghetto Records, SG-014, in 1971. Written by Eddie LeBron and The Students. B2 is misspelled "Sigue Su Vida" on both cover and label. Correct title is "Sigue Tu Vida". B3 & B4 Originally issued on Ghetto Records, SG-016, in 1972. Written by Chuck Edwards. B5 & B6 Originally issued on Ghetto Records, SG-017, in 1972. Written by Robert Banks.

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NA5235LP

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