Okay, draw a line in the sand. What's the best soul label of all time?
I say Stax.
Your turn.
I say Stax.
Your turn.
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Wed, January 28, 2004 - 5:25 PMWell, that's not very fair, pickin' Stax already ....geesh.
I'll get back to this tomorrow. My brain is MUSSSHHHH.
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Thu, January 29, 2004 - 4:35 PMWell, I love Stax but also Kent! I also dig old soul/ska, out of Studio 1. The simple production and sweet sincere delivery from the Jamaican artists truly sends me!
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Thu, January 29, 2004 - 4:43 PMOh yeah, that Kent shit is great. I've a buncha that stuff on disc through -Ace, is it- and it's awesome. -
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Fri, January 30, 2004 - 3:21 PMStax, but also Atlantic 'cause there's some overlap there. -
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Fri, January 30, 2004 - 5:12 PMOh yeah. Peter Guralnik's book Sweet Soul Music is a great chronicle of that relationship. It's a really fun read.
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Mon, February 9, 2004 - 8:14 PMWell I hate to be a heretic, but I listen to my Hi boxset more often than my Stax. Hi certainly was no where near as prolific or important, but they were the home to my favorite singer, Al Green and my favorite soul guitarist, Teenie Hodges. I also enjoy the quirky talents of Ann Peebles and Syl Johnson.
For hardcore R&B it's also hard to overlook Syd Nathan's fiefdom, King Records or the dream factory Atlantic was in the fifties and sixties, with the Erteguns and Wexler at the helm. -
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Tue, February 10, 2004 - 12:11 PMYou are just the kinda guy I need to be educatin' me! The bass player in my band just turned me on to Syl Johnson and I'm learing "I Lied" as we speak! I'll have to check this other stuff you referrenced too! I have some King and Hi stuff but really wanna learn and listen to more!
Thanks,
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Tue, February 10, 2004 - 3:01 PMYes, Kenny is the headmaster of the school of soul... just watch out for the "board of education."
Syl J. rules. I like that "Take You Home to See Mama song," on Hi, and his later stuff is great, too. There's too albums of one cd of later stuff that is just too much, one of 'em is "Is it Because I'm Black." Great stuff.
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Thu, February 12, 2004 - 12:22 AMThe amazing thing about sixties and seventies soul is its success rate. The worst of it is merely pedestrian or pleasant. The best is absolutely transcendent. With all apologies to the Bob Wills tribe, I'd have to say that rhythm and blues music is the apex of western civilization. -
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Thu, February 12, 2004 - 6:17 AMThat's the truth Ruth.
What other genre or movement that put forth so many artists in such abundance has such high level of quality?
Not rockabilly.
Not garage rock.
Not skiffle.
Only Soul and R&B.
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Tue, March 30, 2004 - 11:10 AMJames Brown's People label had some damn fine stuff, too. For 60s Southern Soul, one can't forget the small (fish) frys - Bell (home to James & Bobby Purify), Goldwax (James Carr), and what about Chess? Sure, they're known primarily as a Blues label, but their Soul releases were top notch. Fontella Bass, (early) Johnny Nash, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Billy Stewart (my man!), James Phelps, and Etta James. There's a great 2-CD comp. out called Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest, which is worth every penny for the lead-off track "Mama Didn't Lie" by Jan Bradley.
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