I'm beginning to see the light:  not only is soul music a terrific, dynamic and thoroughly enjoyable genre - but it's making a comeback.  Maybe I should have known it when Amy Winehouse hit it big by mixing vintage sounds and looks (that beehive!) with a modern sensibility, but at the time, I thought it was a novelty.  Sharon Jones ... same thing (same horn section!) - novelty, right?  Wrong. 
At some point, it started to reach CRITICAL MASS.  Case in point:  Jamie Lidell.  Nobody batted an eye when he started purveying all-out soul.  And now that he's taking it in an even edgier direction (heavier and more hip hop sounds) it'll be really interesting to see where it all goes. 
So maybe I'm the last to know.  Or the first.  Who cares.  Point is, this first hour of the show is almost evenly spit between vintage finds (like Bobby Patterson and The Fantastic Johnny C) and new soul artists, including The California Honeydrops, the Haggis Horns (UK) and Crankshaft and the Geargrinders -- from rural Minnesota.  New Soul is a world-wide movement, baby.  
Tell Tchaikovsky the news! 

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Soul Shindig Vol 22   PT 1

Did disco 'do in' soul music?   Was it murder?  Or maybe Soul Suicide?  Thanks to the listeners who participated in our week-long social media conversation about the rise and fall of Soul.  As the genre rises yet again, we return to the scene of the crime and listen to a few R & B greats who cashed in and even helped create the craze for disco - some as early as the opening O’Jays track I found from 1972. 
We atone for all the disco (including a truly questionable rendering of a New Orleans classic by none other than James Brown) with three terrific tracks from current NOLA artists.  
We also continue our exploration of rockers with a heart of soul:  Hello, Paul Weller!   

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Originally aired 4/12/13 on FarmFreshRadio.com 


Soul Shindig Vol 21 Pt 2

I’ve spent the past several months mining for lost soul gems -- while hearing some of the genres getting played in places like the gym and the store.  So I’m reclaiming some of those groovy hits of the early 70’s and putting them in their proper place:  right here - alongside current practitioners of soul.  I came across this Serb-Swiss-American soul singer with a BIG agenda (i.e. God).  Also - some folksters with funk, including Amos Lee and Paul Simon gets his gospel on.  And the latest from my current, favorite Soul Man: Curtis Salgado. 

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