v/a- YOU GOTTA HAVE SOUL: Raw Sonoran R&B and Funk LP (colour vinyl)

Record Store Day 2020.

Limited edition colour vinyl.

11 tracks of desert RandB rarities curated by Arizona disc jockey and archivist John Dixon. In the late '50s and on through the 1960s, Phoenix, Arizona, was home to a thriving RandB scene.

Though no other song catapulted onto the national charts like Dyke and the Blazer's signature ''Funky Broadway,'' inspired by the South Phoenix road of the same name, regional soul and funk acts picked up steam in the Valley of the Sun as established artists passed through on the way to the West Coast and performers traveled along the bustling Southern California to Texas black corridor.

Culled from the vaults of Arizona music archivist and legendary Arizona disc jockey John ''Johnny D'' Dixon, You Gotta Have Soul: Raw Sonoran RandB and Funk (1957-1971), compiles essential desert RandB rarities, from Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls' breakbeat heavy ''Ham Hocks and Beans'' to the raw snap of Jimmie ''Playboy'' McKnight's ''Little Anne'' to the brown-eyed Latin soul of Eddie Dimas and the Upsets.

Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls, ''Ham Hocks and Beans, Pt. 1'' (1970), Lon Rogers and the Soul Blenders, ''Too Good to Be True'' (1968), The Tads, ''Wolf Call'' (1957), Jimmie ''Playboy'' McKnight with Henry ''Mojo'' Thompson, ''Little Ann'' (1962), Eddie Dimas and the Upsets, ''Cry, Cry, Cry'' (1966), Butch McGee, ''Stacked'' (1958), The Four Dimensions, ''You Gotta Have Soul'' (1966), Brother Zee and the Decades w/M.M. combo, ''Smokey the Bear'' (1963), The Soulsations, ''Funky Night Club (1967), Little Worley and the Drops, ''Who Stole My Girl'' (1961), Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls, ''Ham Hocks and Beans, Pt. 2'' (1970)