VA - Looking Stateside: 80 US R&B, Mod, Soul & Garage Nuggets [3CD Box Set] (2016) Lossless

UK three CD collection that pays homage to American mod music from the 60s. Many of the tracks here are drawn from the prestigious back catalogs of Challenge, Scepter/Wand, Etiquette, Swan, Shell, and Select, and a large number of those new to CD. Looking Stateside goes back to the roots of the mod scene on Disc One. From the opening bars of Georgia Lynn's 'Sugar Shack Queen', these are the sounds you might have heard down at The Scene Club in London's Ham Yard (had Guy Stevens or other DJs have owned these tunes on import - for most of them weren't issued in the UK at the time). Mickey Lee Lane's 'Hey Sah Lo Ney' was famously covered by The Action while Curtis Knight was later a fixture on Britain's rock scene of the early 70s. Disc Two offers a superb cross-section of mid-60s soul, from familiar classics (Chuck Jackson, The Showmen, Don Varner) to more obscure fare (Timi Yuro, The Kampells, Richard Anthony & The Blue Notes) and a whole lotta quality in between. Often, we've chosen less familiar sides. The Newbeats, for example, are represented by the terrific but often overlooked 'I'm A Teardrop'. Disc Three is launched with a hail of buzzsaw fuzz guitar and snotty vocals, courtesy of The Brogues' classic 'Don't Shoot Me Down', and the pace rarely lets up thereafter. Again, the compilers have married bona fide garage punk classics (the Moving Sidewalks, The Sonics, etc.) with a clutch of tracks new to CD and others which have eluded compilations of this sort.