http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/12/09/benefit-for-wpfw-dj-the-gator-saturday/

Would love to see Chick Willis (“Stoop Down Baby”) and Lee Fields and Hardway Connection at this DC area event tonight.

I don’t know the Ecko label, but this morning I opened my sealed copy of John Kasandra’s ‘Color Me Human’ released on Stax’s Respect imprint. Side two is a long suite called Moses lll. It’s a sermon like rap about race and brotherhood. My favorite is (What’s Under) the Natural Do’, really funky! Would like to find more of these stax off-shoots like Gospel Truth, We Produce, and of course Enterprise.

Really digging later Stax in general, post the Atlantic years, esp the last few years when they were branching out too far into other areas.

btw I don’t mean to derail thread. Would youtubes of any new soul worth checking out as I know nothing new about soul music.

I am in love with Marlena Shaw.

All good old stuff, but Xchuck and I like some of the bluesy soulful Southern stuff that yes uses synths. Here’s a site that covers lables like Ecko:

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/newcds2009.cfm

labels.

No youtubes for Miss Jody’s latest. Her Miss Jody’s in the House cd is on Spotify. Plenty of Miss Jody line dance videos on Youtube plus some older songs. Will have to post one

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

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Carl Sims “Hell on My Hands” is kinda melodramatic

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Marlena Shaw from 1969

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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:

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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

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Cupid’s “Do It With Your Boots On” adds zydeco and Trey Songz style contemporary r’n’b vocals

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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/