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on September 12, 2009
I'm a big fan of Southern Soul, particularly the Memphis and Muscle Shoals forms. But because there was so much fantastic music from those two areas, it's easy to get stuck listening to Stax, Fame, Atlantic and Hi artists. Even their duds are better than most of the competition.
This year-old South ...
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on December 25, 2010
On this special day I'll share video of an amazing televised 1968 James Brown concert at the Boston Garden that is credited with muzzling rioting in Boston in the wake of the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The splicing/editing of this series of clips is very choppy but it's worth tol ...
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on March 14, 2010
Great, great record store
Good record stores seem to be making a comeback, but one that’s never gone away is the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago.
I’ve visited JRM several times, including Sunday, not so much for the jazz stuff but a deep selection of R&B, soul, blues and gospel music an ...
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on February 14, 2011
On this Valentine's Day, I'll share a recommendation for fans of Southern Soul or good music in general to check out a DVD documentary of soul legend Solomon Burke titled "Everybody Needs Somebody" .
The hourlong documentary is authorized, so there's only one side of the story to a man w ...
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on February 29, 2012
This wonderful 1969 French documentary captures some of the long-lost magic at Stax and FAME studios, home of some of the greatest music ever recorded.
The video captures Southern soul at its best, with Brook Benton letting it all out while recording at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. The act ...
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on April 1, 2010
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings are popping up all over the place in advance of a new album hitting stores next week. That's a good thing.
Jones generated critical acclaim a few years ago with the release of " 100 Days, 100 Nights ," a throwback to mid-60s Memphis soul. The Dap-Kings earned some fa ...
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on June 1, 2011
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham are legends in Memphis/Muscle Shoals music lore, but their names aren't usually the first to come to mind when discussing Southern soul and R&B from the 1960s and '70s. And that's a shame because their work writing and performing on some of the most dynamic songs of that ...
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on August 23, 2011
Southern soul legend Steve Cropper has been living off his reputation for more than 40 years since Stax Records petered out and Memphis lost its mojo.
But Cropper is back from nowhere with a surprising tribute to a band called The 5 Royales . "Dedicated: A Salute to The 5 Royales" is a star-studde ...
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on October 10, 2011
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on November 1, 2011
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