Music Banter - It's Soul Week!

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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, combining elements of African American gospel music and rhythm and blues.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."[1] Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds.[2]

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RYM's Top Soul Releases

Well, since I'm the first one to post, I guess I can start things off with a super-classic.

Great song :)

Have to throw out the usual suspects here:

and finally my favourite Soul track ever. If I could only own one Soul track then this is it:

Albums to check out:
Al Green - Use Me
Aretha Franklin - Soul 69
Otis Redding - Dictionary Of Soul
Sam Cooke - One Night Stand
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Percy Sledge - The Soulful Sound Of

Modern releases that still cut the mustard try:
Gizelle Smith and the Mighty Mocambos
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Spanky Wilson and the Quantic Soul Orchestra

If you want a little Psychedelia thrown in with your Soul try:
Lotti Golden - Motorcycle.

how can people forget this definitive song?:-

and this?:-

(yes, i'm partial to Stax/Volt)