Soul (current Southern on labels like Ecko plus old-school and retro)

Will post some youtubes from others later, I promise

blogger Daddy B. Nice's 2011 finalists in multiple categories

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2011.cfm

another site's finalists

http://www.soulbluesmusic.com/2011BCAwardsVoting.htm

Mel Waiters "When You Get Drunk" has a nice chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PpmIa1fNU

Carl Sims "Hell on My Hands" is kinda melodramatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV59UFJaeDM&feature=related

Marlena Shaw from 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BeN75XgfQ

Xchuckx come back. Tim F. come back. Check out those Southern soul lists above. Tim, I will post the dance one

From Daddy B. Nice's list:

Best Club (Uptempo Dance) Song:

1. Young Folk Love The Blues --- Bigg Robb

2. Get Down --- Charles Wilson

3. Too Much Booty Shakin' Up In Here --- Sir Jonothan Burton

4. Rent Man --- Diedra

5. Make That Monkey Jump --- Grady Champion

6. G-Slide --- Gina Brown

7. Do It With Your Boots On --- Cupid

8. Show You A Good Time --- Bobby Rush

9. Ride It Like A Cowboy (Remix) --- Kenne Wayne

10. Only Time I Get Lonely --- Stephanie Pickett

OMG at every single song on this list!

This is amazing also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9DLM-YLPY&feature=related

Nice...

So many line dances. Here's Gina Brown's G-Slide. It starts with a lesson and then she and dancers do the song and dance routine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3jZJwzXnM

Cupid's "Do It With Your Boots On" adds zydeco and Trey Songz style contemporary r'n'b vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWm6WfD3kE

http://www.sirshambling.com/

comprehensive UK based old-school deep soul site

interview with the guy who does that blog along with some streaming songs

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/interviews/2011/dec/19/soul-man/