Motown can certainly be taken to task for issuing the same old stuff over and over again no matter how great it is, how many versions of Marvin Gayes 《What's Goin On》or of Motowns Top 20 singles does anybody really need even if it is as important as Beethovens Fifth Symphony (or anybody else?s, for that matter). Not so in this case. Cellarful of Motown is a double CD chock-full of soul classics that have remained virtually unheard since they were first recorded or, in some cases, relegated to the cutting room floor by Motowns front line artists, and many that should have been. We can thank the Northern soul underground in the U.K. for this issue in a sense, due to their constant demand for rare Motown soul issues and the massive bootlegging that goes with it and a collectors market that is out of control price-wise at the dawn of the 21st century. Here are 40 tracks that were recorded in the glory days of the Detroit.