Your On-The-Hour Man: Modern, Dolphin and Downey Recordings

Vintage R&B collectors will salivate at the first digital release of these rare sides by West coast soul singer Harry "Little" Caesar. YOUR ON-THE-HOUR MAN contains pretty much everything he recorded for the Modern, Dolphin, and Downey labels between 1952 and 1960. Caesar's tunes were full of pathos, and on cuts like the eerie, near-suicidal plaint "River," he comes across like a lo-fi Roy Orbison of soul, dripping with broken-hearted drama. Astonishingly, this is the first collection of his music to see an officially sanctioned CD release.