Numero / Previously unissued recordings by Stax cult favorite . Deluxe CD package includes embossed cover and 20 page booklet with complete history of the group and half a dozen photos from their personal archives. The Promises Of Yesterday is by no means a sequel to Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth. Missing are the poignant and bleak sermons on the pain of inner-city existence, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of love songs Warren had written as far back as 1965. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, and mission, the second 24-Carat Black album is tethered to the first by a single, crucial element: its creator.