Recommend me some soul album gems?
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Just did a new digital TV scan to discover any new digital broadcast TV signals. Discovered a new "Bounce" station. They're advertising re-broadcasts of the old "Soul Train" TV show from the '70/'80s. Check that out. Can't get any more "soul" than that one!
"Shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show 'em how we do it now!"
(Shake Your Groove Thing - sang by Peaches & Herb, '79)
"Shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show 'em how we do it now!"
(Shake Your Groove Thing - sang by Peaches & Herb, '79)
Anything Otis Redding, ie. Dictionary of Soul. James Brown at the Apollo. (Also check out his performance on the T.A.M.I. Show DVD.) The Essential Sly and the Family Stone is a great collection. And, naturally, Aretha Franklin.
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Why do you want to check out soul? If it is for the horns then listen to the Joe Scott band behind Bobby Bland on his Duke/Peacock recordings. That would be a good place to start. Listen to anything with the King Curtis Band for a NY perspective. Then there's the Memphis Horns down in, ?, Memphis? yeh, that'd be right. Lots of different horn sounds in soul.
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Not sure if you just want female soul singers. If so you should begin with the woman who has been doing it longer than anyone, Etta James -- This woman is the real deal, check it out. And plenty of horns too.:
Soul doesn't get any better than this song which Etta OWNS (Beyonce Who?)
The original recording:
And a couple of live versions, each individually fantastic interpretations, just like great jazz. If chills don't run up and down your spine at 2:53 and from 4:15 on in this first one, better go to the ER for an EKG and a heart transplant.
In 1977, obviously younger and more powerful
On the BB King show in duet w/ Dr. John:
Lest you think this signature song is all she could do, check out her cover of the Eagles song Take It to The Limit if you want to hear what a real soul singer can do. She probably could sing the L.A. phone book and rip your guts out doing it.
Koko Taylor -- another great soul singer (Wang Dang Doodle) doing Etta's song justice (unlike Beyonce who should go back to the shed.)
Plus all time greats:
Tina Turner -- !!!!!
Aretha -- The Queen of Soul
Patti LaBelle -- The Soul Diva of them all!! Has Pipes that don't quit.
Erma Franklin -- Did the original Piece of My Heart that Janis stole.
Betty Everette -- You're No Good
Tammi Terrell -- Beautiful, alone or with Marvin Gaye
Maxine Brown -- Oh No, Not My Baby
Fontella Bass -- Rescue Me
Carla Thomas -- B.a.b.y., Tramp w/ Otis Redding, and w/ Rufus
Motown -- Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, the Supremes, the Marvelettes
Soul doesn't get any better than this song which Etta OWNS (Beyonce Who?)
The original recording:
And a couple of live versions, each individually fantastic interpretations, just like great jazz. If chills don't run up and down your spine at 2:53 and from 4:15 on in this first one, better go to the ER for an EKG and a heart transplant.
In 1977, obviously younger and more powerful
On the BB King show in duet w/ Dr. John:
Lest you think this signature song is all she could do, check out her cover of the Eagles song Take It to The Limit if you want to hear what a real soul singer can do. She probably could sing the L.A. phone book and rip your guts out doing it.
Koko Taylor -- another great soul singer (Wang Dang Doodle) doing Etta's song justice (unlike Beyonce who should go back to the shed.)
Plus all time greats:
Tina Turner -- !!!!!
Aretha -- The Queen of Soul
Patti LaBelle -- The Soul Diva of them all!! Has Pipes that don't quit.
Erma Franklin -- Did the original Piece of My Heart that Janis stole.
Betty Everette -- You're No Good
Tammi Terrell -- Beautiful, alone or with Marvin Gaye
Maxine Brown -- Oh No, Not My Baby
Fontella Bass -- Rescue Me
Carla Thomas -- B.a.b.y., Tramp w/ Otis Redding, and w/ Rufus
Motown -- Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, the Supremes, the Marvelettes
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Just found this live soul/blues that'll rock your socks off:
And for another example of the depth of Etta's talent, this sizzling powerhouse of a perfomance at the 1989 Montreaux Jazz Festival.
And for another example of the depth of Etta's talent, this sizzling powerhouse of a perfomance at the 1989 Montreaux Jazz Festival.
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Ruth Brown in London.... RB is great, all the tunes are great, and the whole thing hangs together will Ruth's patter between the songs .... and in the middle of many of the songs one of the baddest (IMO) all time blues tenor players, Bob Kenmotsu, steps up and really kicks out the jams.
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Yes, I posted about it two days ago right after I read it in the news: http://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?171826-Etta-James-In-The-Hospital&highlight=etta+james: The prognosis is not hopeful at all. I really have loved Etta's singing, in case you couldn't tell, and it saddens me that she someone who has given so much incredible music has to end her days in this way.
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Sorry that I missed your post. Yes, she's just a person like any other and all illness brings sadness but when someone who has given so much pleasure hits the hard time then it really does make me feel for them.
I've been listening to her since the comeback in 1967 and the classics remain classics but whenever I think about her, I think of this clip from Taylor Hackford's 'Hail Hail Rock and Roll' film from 1987. Here's a clip but skip over boring Clapton and get to the good stuff at 5:20. This is a person who who walsk onto a stage with Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Cray and I can't remember whoever else and she makes them look like dilettantes. She commands that stage from the moment she walks out there. For SaxMoose, apologies if I hijacked the thread but Etta James is soul.
I've been listening to her since the comeback in 1967 and the classics remain classics but whenever I think about her, I think of this clip from Taylor Hackford's 'Hail Hail Rock and Roll' film from 1987. Here's a clip but skip over boring Clapton and get to the good stuff at 5:20. This is a person who who walsk onto a stage with Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Cray and I can't remember whoever else and she makes them look like dilettantes. She commands that stage from the moment she walks out there. For SaxMoose, apologies if I hijacked the thread but Etta James is soul.
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