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Stax soul jag

It started this week when I picked up the new Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration 2CD box at a local discount store. I swear I can't go in for a bar of soap without perusing the ever diminishing CD selection & going home with something new. Anyway, these discs are really bringing back alot of great memories (wearing out those soul 45's w/a penney taped on the headshell).

What a great genre/era for music, huh? What are some of your soul favs? Going on next is Curtis Mayfield, self-titled then Black Moses.....

Have a safe & enjoyable holiday weekend & cheers!
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siliab
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Love the stuff. Stevie Wonder may be my absolute favorite but the whole genre stokes my burners. Recently picked up a 45 rpm EP of the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" and "Respect Yourself". Whoah!!!..chicken skin music for sure.
siliab
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Sfar,

What a concert that must have been!!!

Although removed by decades, I witnessed a similar case of the tune-up band eclipsing the marquis act in a Soul context. I went to see Alicia Keys just after her second record dropped and she had John Legend as her tune-up artist. While she performed respectably, John Legend thoroughly smoked her. Better songs, better played and better sung. Surely, he is not in the same class as the artists that have been discussed here, but I do like his musicianship and songcraft.
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