Recommend me some soul ?

[Bellyheart]

Willie Mitchell

[WayToHip]

Marvin Gaye
Curtis Mayfield
Al Green
Uh, I think I should know more...

[Blackened Soul]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU[/youtube]
Had to.

[rattler420]

bill withers is the man yo

[CBGB]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPIqOh9uTU[/youtube]

[Mudfuzz]

Soul!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_nG7XavOw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nSU2hAqK4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2mzeyGZ8Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obwMsk5JzxQ[/youtube]
Warning this is funk.. but!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35mS0vCcp4[/youtube]
You should play this again right now!

afghan whigs? sorry you're on your own there..
I have to say it. more then metalz, more then punk, this stuff is bread and butter for the "soul" for me! Such bass playing!

[kaboom]

bill withers is the man yo

[74vibrolux]

Curtis Mayfield for sures. Check out the Eccentric Soul series. There are tons of great releases all centered around small, obscure labels from the 60s and 70s. Some amazing stuff there.

[dubkitty]

Motown: Temptations, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Stax/Atlantic Records: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs

other independent labels: JAMES BROWN, Curtis Mayfield with and without the Impressions (a massive influence on Bob Marley), Al Green, Bill Withers. if you want to comprehend the progress of funk music in the 20th century you've got to listen to James Brown, who cut the trail that everybody else followed.

post-psychedelic soul: the Norman Whitfield-produced Motown stuff most notably by the Temptations e.g. "Runaway Child (Runnin' Wild)," Sly and the Family Stone (incredibly important), Parliament/Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Jimi Hendrix' Cry of Love album

70s Philadelphia soul/R&B: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes w/Teddy Pendergrass

New Orleans: the Neville Brothers (as a group and in their various solo projects and appearances); the Meters; Allen Toussaint

soul-influenced rock of various persuasions: The Small Faces, Humble Pie (try the Smokin' album), Paul Weller, the early J. Geils Band, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Willy/Mink DeVille, The Radiators

[MaxMaps]

Motown: Temptations, Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Stax/Atlantic Records: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs

other independent labels: JAMES BROWN, Curtis Mayfield with and without the Impressions (a massive influence on Bob Marley), Al Green, Bill Withers. if you want to comprehend the progress of funk music in the 20th century you've got to listen to James Brown, who cut the trail that everybody else followed.

post-psychedelic soul: the Norman Whitfield-produced Motown stuff most notably by the Temptations e.g. "Runaway Child (Runnin' Wild)," Sly and the Family Stone (incredibly important), Parliament/Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Jimi Hendrix' Cry of Love album

70s Philadelphia soul/R&B: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes w/Teddy Pendergrass

New Orleans: the Neville Brothers (as a group and in their various solo projects and appearances); the Meters; Allen Toussaint

soul-influenced rock of various persuasions: The Small Faces, Humble Pie (try the Smokin' album), Paul Weller, the early J. Geils Band, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Willy/Mink DeVille, The Radiators

Kudos. This man has some soul.

[Zounds Perspex]

here are some excellent funk/soul mixes and compilations.






holy shit Gangsta Boogie rules.


and yeah obviously if you don't already have a ton of James Brown, that's the source.
at least download the Star Time box set, if nothing else.

dubkitty mentioned earlier Stax stuff, but the later stuff that is mainly represented by Isaac Hayes is pretty great.
Isaac's Hot Buttered Soul album is essential.
the first two Stax Volt Complete Singles boxes are super super great.

There's tons of good soul music from around the world, too, especially Brazil and Africa.
Every soul fan should own something from Fela & Africa 70, something from Jorge Ben, Milton Nascimento's Clube De Esquina (sic?) album, etc.

[dubkitty]

i didn't by any means intend to be totally comprehensive. the stuff i know about is what i heard coming up on the South Side of Chicago as a kid in the 60s, and reflects what black people were listening to in the big cities of the Great Lakes and to what leaked through onto white AM radio. for example, the Impressions were HUGE in Chicago because they were locals, South Siders. conversely, there was a lot of stuff happening in the South that was regional and didn't really make it up the Mississippi...i don't really know anything about e.g. the Texas stuff or the music on the Malaco label, and Louisiana music in general wasn't very popular in Chicago, whose black population migrated more from Mississippi, Tennessee, and other points farther East.

[Zounds Perspex]

oh man, your post covered a lot of ground! there are whole books written on this stuff, you couldn't possibly be comprehensive in a forum post.

interesting the geographic element...while I wasn't around while this stuff was being made,
I definitely favor the southern stuff. Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Muscle Shoals...that's where it's at for me.
I find a lot of the Northeast stuff a little polite and polished for my tastes.
Great music, but I like that RAW shit.

[CBGB]

From one of my favourite albums of all time...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqaY4Nz0yA[/youtube]

[dubkitty]

another Chicago group, and the band where Minnie Riperton ("Lovin' You") got her start.