Thing is Jerry, people have a limited budget to spend on music and don't wish to buy music they MAY like rather than music the KNOW they will like. Problem to...
Hi John, Clive and Floris, Many thanks for responding to my request for info on NATRA and for reminding me about the piece in Guralnick's 'Sweet Soul Music' on...
... is ... I would agree with this, Phil. For example, I bought four successive Shirley Brown CDs and came to the conclusion that I didn' t actually like them...
The Soul Queen of New Orleans was fantastic last night on Jools Holland 'Hootenany' celebrations on BBC TV. Pure class and its had me on the internet today...
on 1/1/06 17:22, southernsoul@yahoogroups.com at ... Dear Jerry, I note what you say and am, to a certain extent sympathetic but what most folks on this side...
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... <philip.newton4@n...> ... and ... art ... successive ... actually ... Happy New Year,John and Phil I cant think of many old school soul artist that has the...
I've come into this a bit late but: 1) I agree that there is no longer the plethora of quality soul music there was in the 60s and 70s but 2) Look and you...
Agreed - very enjoyable, was watching it on tape this morning. The whole program was particularly good for anyone of our taste with Ruby Turner and a young ...
Sex and soul.... It may be worth bearing in mind that what (lyrically/ thematically) may be acceptable (and entertaining) in live performance can be a distance...
... Hi Greg, This show was recorded some weeks ago, Irma flew in just to tape this show as far as I know. Happy New year to all SS members. I'll be at the...
Hi all,first posting here prompted by the Little Richard thread ! I'm totally biased - but for me Richard has always been very undevalued as a "Soul" performer...
... range ,voice ... been a ... true ... art ... from ... I ... young ... I ... Happy new year to you too, Jerry. Having bought soul records fairly obsessively...
... Happy new year to you too, mate. As to your question : The most recent Irma Cds I have are as follows : " True Believer " - Rounder 1992 - Like it a great...
... Gordon You didn't post it! I would be interested to hear members' choices of top CD issues this year. Not necessarily limited to 10. I have been busy with...
I have to agree with Clive. Absolutely there is a place that "Neo-Soul and everything that falls in that category" will occupy in the history vaults and on the...
Kevin, There was a link rto my site in the signature. But I've copied the text anyway (not a lot of southern this year - maybe I need to look for some more...
Last night I noticed a flyer for Syl (and Jackie Ross) performing in Yorkshire in March. Has anyone seen Syl perform recently? Regards Gordon Stone ...
Hi, I have a record I picked up years ago purporting to be by Doris Duke and Friends on the record sleeve and called 'Funky Fox' by Sister Doris Duke on the...
Yep, he was pretty good at the Barbican last year at the Hi Rhythm concert. There are some reports on the shows in this group if you do a search. M ... ...
... Here's a top 10 list from my local newspaper that may contain one of YOUR particular favorites: <http://www.startribune.com/457/story/153435.html> Best, ...
... YOUR ... Sorry group, I meant to send this to KK himself but routed it to all instead... It's just a top 10 list that contains Bettye's new release at #8....
Show 178 can be downloaded from here, the webpage.. or..for 7 days.HERE: http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BJ6MKD9XVIAK2O8T8CPXISXCM Regards Barry ... TO...
Murray I have the following artist listed for this album ... Bobby Jean Bland was married to Monk Higgins aka Milton Bland. I think all but the Uni track come...
... Duke ... them ... might ... is him. ... Murray, if memory serves me well - and I don' t have the album - at least some of the tracks were by Mamie Galore.I...
OK maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon but I thought it very dissappointing. Irma Thomas had a slight rabbit in the headlights quality when singing I thought and...