Inspired by the Women Of Soul thread and the fact that i’ve got one eye on a James Brown docu on BBC4 now. What about the soul men ?
Soul Men
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Jimmy Ruffin http://youtu.be/2vf3ZE7CLg0
Near the top of any such list, the name Clarence Carter must appear….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joXHmEOGy38
From the 2002 LP when I really GOT the idea of soul
Little Milton.
O.V. Wright
This thread will run and run!
Never a better version
Charles Bradley
Raphael Saadiq
James Carr – Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZ7yADHk_A
Jackie Wilson.
Let’s hear it for the falsetto guys.
Eddie Holman – “Hey There Lonely Girl”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lscp1GCjUQ
Wilson Pickett – Mustang Sally
Let’s see if Toots can convince you!
That was the first reggae record I ever bought, I heard it on John Peel (where else?) and it still sounds great.
Time for the Reverend Green. Some sensational Afro hairdos in this clip!
Lets have a go at a Spotify playlist for this one too
Clyde McPhatter – “Without Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is40BM_z-m8
David Oliver – Southern Comfort
One of my favourite records ever.
http://youtu.be/75BlzjqGVcc
Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It Up
Tyrone Davis – Can I Change My Mind
Always.
Arthur Conley – Sweet Soul Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8btOw69-Ow
Issac Hayes – Shaft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFvRvSxsW-I
Thanks a lot for doing a playlist, Joe. Looking forward to listening to all these too.
This performance makes me cry.
Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
You can’t have a thread called Soul Men without Sam & Dave!
http://youtu.be/8fS9-Yimdhw
It amazes me that this topic hasn’t inspired more responses. Some of the essential contributors have so far gone unmentioned. Give a brother a little help here…..
The only artist to be covered by the Beatles, the Stones and Dylan, Arthur Alexander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHdtiq6LIE
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Really Love
Mr Robinson deserves a place here.
And why not a little Brazilian soul? Funky Tim Maia.
Curtis Mayfield – Love Me Right In The Pocket
Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind
Yikes – I almost forgot Sam Cooke….
Time for some soul music from Wales?
Some Stax deep soul stunners:
The wonderful J Blackfoot on the epic “What’s Happening Baby” by the Soul Children. Love those 70s raps…
David Porter – of Hayes and Porter songwriting fame – in throat shredding form particularly from about 4,30 in when the orchestra falls away
From the same era – ex Tower of Power singer Lenny Williams
Another soul man from Brazil, Tim Maia’s nephew: Ed Motta.
Ed Motta, soul man and record collector. I discovered today that it was his copy of Tam Tam Tam that was the source of the Trunk records reissue, the subject of your earlier post.
Interesting. I was lucky enough to see Ed at Roskilde a few years back. He put on a great show.
Here’s a song that belongs here.
Not so any younger chaps on this list. Cee Lo Green certainly has the chops to deserve a place here.
I was listening to Hercules on the playlist. Great song but it doesn’t really reflect the mature Aaron Neville. Like many artists, he could do with a couple of songs here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMaVii6eb4
His singing on In The Still Of The Night might well be my favourite vocal performance of all time ever in the history of everything by anyone anywhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5uxtGkR67s
….and not forgetting Van.
http://youtu.be/JEiMQ9w3t3o
Sam Dees, please:
One Sam Dees track just isn’t enough.
This was my introduction to his work. Courtesy of Alexis Korner on Radio 1, back in the mists…
O.V. Wright. The jury is in.
Lewis Taylor
Bollocks.
Sly Stone!
Some wonderful Don Varner
The Commodores – I Like What You Do
Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Trucking
The mighty mighty David Ruffin. Never has the shiny surface of disco sounded so soulful
Walk Away From Love
Deep as deep soul gets.
Jimmy Holiday – The Turning Point
Mr. Jerry Butler
Just Because I Really Love you
Is it Luuuurve time?
Leon Haywood – I Want To Do Something Freaky To You
G C Cameron – Girl I Really Love You
Womack, Bobby.
Baby I Can’t Stand It
Sweetpea Atkinson, of Was (Not Was) is a fine singer. Here he is on a Don Was (minus David) project.
Totally reworking a Hank Williams song.
Some nice Herbie Hancock piano here too.
I love the guy’s soul voice on this Was (Not Was) track. Dunno who he is though.
Found out who he is. Harry Bowens. Apparently.
That song is possibly the greatest song [Clarkson Pause] in the world.
Three different versions – funky album, slow jazz 12″, dancefloor version – all by WNW, all totally different treatments with different lyrics, each sublimer than the others.
Have we really missed Edwin Starr?
And Denis Edwards
Tommy Navarro – I Cried My Life Away
This keeps rolling – just found another great track:
Ain’t That Good Enough – Garland Green