The Archive: January 2008

About Author/Site

Oliver Wang has been writing on music, culture and society since 1994. I live and work out of Los Angeles. For more info, visit here.

The Archive compiles my major published works since 2004. For older work (1998-2003), go here.

The Book

Liner Notes

2002 - 2008

Wednesday, January 16

JANUARY 2008

Boogaloo Nights
(Feature)
Appears In: The Nation (January, 2008)

Wednesday, January 9

ALBUM LINER NOTES BY OLIVER WANG

The following is a list of albums that I have written liner notes for, organized in reverse chronological order:

Joe Bataan: Under the Streeplamps (1968-1972) (Fania/Emusica, 2008)
Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Band: Puckey Puckey (Rhino Handmade, 2008)
Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Band: Live at the Haunted House (Rhino Handmade, 2008)
Betty Davis: S/T (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic, 2007)
Betty Davis: They Say I'm DIfferent (Just Sunshine/Light In the Attic, 2007)
Various Artists: Sugar Hill Records/The Definitive Groove Collection (Sugar Hill/Rhino, 2006)
Various Artists: Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five/The Definitive Groove Collection (Sugar Hill/Rhino, 2006)
Bootsy Collins: The Definitive Groove Collection (Rhino, unreleased, orig. 2006)
Various Artists: What It Is! Funky Soul and and Rare Grooves (1967 - 1977) (Rhino, 2006)[1]
The Dereliks: Change For the Bus Ride Home (unpublished) (Sublevel Epidemic, 2004)
Jel: 10 Seconds (Mush, 2002)

[1] Introductory essay, not liner notes

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