VARIOUS ARTISTS TURBAN RENEWAL: A TRIBUTE TO SAM THE SHAM NEW LP
Take one obscure but deserving artist, assemble the right bunch of in-with-the-out-crowd suspects cum fans, and let ‘em loose on the songbook. It may have prompted Rhino to get its Pharaohization best-of compilation out on CD a couple of years later — but Turban Renewal shows even more clearly how distinctive Sam the Sham himself really is.