Dave Godin is a big name, perhaps the biggest in British soul scholarship. He was a writer and critic in Blues & Soul magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, and an all-around promoter and collector who was instrumental in getting much American soul released in the U.K. This is his personal selection, accompanied by almost 10,000 words in liner notes, of 25 of his favorite "Deep Soul" tracks (a term that, according to his notes, he coined himself) from the 1960s and early 1970s. There are no songs by {$Otis...   [ read more ]

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Twenty-five "deep soul" (the term used to refer to soul music that has a generally slow tempo and is seriously emotional) tracks from 1964-1975. There are a few stars here and there (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Ben E. King, Arthur Conley and Irma Thomas, although none of them perform hits) and even a couple of cuts that have appeared on widely circulated compilations (Bessie Banks' original version of "Go Now," which was covered for a hit by the Moody Blues, and Toussaint McCall'...   [ read more ]

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Having Al Green on their artist roster was at once a blessing and a curse for Hi Records -- while Green was arguably the finest and most distinctive R&B vocalist of the 1970s, and a major hitmaker to boot, his work was both popular and unique enough that it tended to blunt recognition for the label's other artists, and this compilation makes it clear that Hi had plenty of other top-rank soul men recording for them. While the trademark studio sound that Willie Mitchell brought to {$Gree...   [ read more ]

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