Various
Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label
The Bandit Records legend 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 south-side
Chicago landscape as Afro-Noir author Iceberg Slim's ghetto characters, taking inspiration from the same 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 operated somewhere in the space between money laundering outfit and sex cult.
Brown poured proceeds from straight jobs held by his many "daughters" into sumptuously rendered, forward-looking soul
records by the egotistically named Arrows and the Majestic Arrows, as well his seven-year-old son Altyrone Deno Brown,
whose father hoped to push to Jackson-style child-fame heights. 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. Our triple-LP unabridged edition brings 40 tracks to the
CD's 20, and the 14,000-word accompanying book, crackling with odd and dazzling imagery, makes our original notes read
like a Babysitter's Club entry. In 2005, novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem called the entirety of the Bandit Records
tale "Haunting... haunted... Like a little novel." In its darker corners, Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label may more
closely resemble true crime.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 3 disk
Release
16-07-2013
Label
Item-nr
366495
EAN
0825764100311
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
WE HAVE LOVE
THE ARROWS
2
THE LOVE I SEE NOW
THE ARROWS
3
BOOGEDY BOOGEDY
THE ARROWS
4
BRING BACK THE ONE I LOVE
THE ARROWS
5
YOU'VE GOT TO CRAWL TO ME
JOHNNY DAVIS
6
MY HEART WILL NEVER LIE
SANDY CLEVELAND
7
WE LOVE TOGETHER
SANDY CLEVELAND
8
YOU'RE A HARD HABIT TO BREAK
LINDA BALLENTINE
9
GLAD ABOUT THAT
LINDA BALLENTINE
10
SWEET PEA
ALTYRONE DENO BROWN
11
IF YOU LOVE ME
ALTYRONE DENO BROWN
12
LIFT THIS HURT
CHOSEN FEW
13
YOU'VE BEEN UNFAIR
CHOSEN FEW
14
GHETTO KING
HASSAN
1
ONE MORE TIME AROUND
MAJESTIC ARROWS
2
LOVE IS ALL I NEED
MAJESTIC ARROWS
3
DOING IT FOR US
MAJESTIC ARROWS
4
GOING TO MAKE A TIME MACHINE
MAJESTIC ARROWS
5
LADIES AND WONDERFUL GIRLS
MAJESTIC ARROWS
6
I'LL NEVER CRY FOR ANOTHER BOY
MAJESTIC ARROWS
7
WE LOVE TOGETHER
MAJESTIC ARROWS
8
ANOTHER DAY
MAJESTIC ARROWS
9
THE MAGIC OF YOUR LOVE
MAJESTIC ARROWS
10
GOING TO MAKE A TIME MACHINE (INSTRUMENTAL)
1
POON TANG THUMP
M.A.S.O.
2
I WILL FIND YOU
ALTYRONE DENO BROWN
3
THE ECLIPSE OF LOVE
ALTYRONE DENO BROWN
4
DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU
WIND
5
PEOPLE
WIND
6
ONE MORE TIME AROUND
MAJESTIC ARROWS
7
LOVE IS ALL I NEED
MAJESTIC ARROWS
8
IF I HAD A LITTLE LOVE
MAJESTIC ARROWS
9
MAKE YOURSELF OVER
MAJESTIC ARROWS
10
I'LL NEVER CRY FOR ANOTHER BOY
MAJESTIC ARROWS
11
THOUGHT I WAS A PLABOY
ALTYRONE DENO BROWN
12
COME BACK HOME
DARNELL JONES
