Soul music made it’s way North, East & West via the same train routes that carried rural black workers from their homes in the south to the industrial north. As these "Blues people" made their way north, the music that they brought with them fused with the sophisticated urban sounds of jazz to create the sound first called "race music" and then later referred to as "rhythm & blues". As this music known as R&B began to gain acceptance among whites, it became split artificially and became known as "rock n’ roll" (for whites only) and "soul" (for Blacks only). As far as we are concerned it’s ALL Classic Soul !!! This web site will explore the past, present & future of the music that was the "soul" of the greatest freedom movement in the history of the United States of America.
http://www.soul-patrol.com/soul/ ... there are definate gems in the rough like Erykah Badu all silky and sweet. I see her in any Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughn album that I could break out ... to feature Gil's "Home is where the Hatred is" in the Gil Scott-Heron section. That is arguably one of my favorite songs from him, and it has remarkable teleportational power. When I listen to that I always find myself in some scene not unlike Frankford Terminal here in Philadelphia twenty-five years ago - the same feeling I get when I listen to the Last Poets rap about New York in "New York, New York" - its like an impressionist painting done all with shades of purple and ebony, with a '65 black imperial driving by, men of character huddled by a can-fire, and the plastic, with vapor-locked expressions walking around, to borrow a last poets expression, with "clairol on the brain". I love the first three Funkadelic albums (Eddie Hazel is a rare talent), ...
" You take the Soul out of reggae, you get ragga. You put the soul back into reggae, you get lovers rock. You take the soul out of jazz you get bebop, you put the soul back onto jazz you get latin jazz, vocal jazz".
"You take the soul out of house you get hardcore, gabba, even techno. You put the soul back into house, and you'll get garage or some deep house. Soul is the basis of modern dance music. Even when its not in the makeup of modern day dance music itself, its influence is strong that the industry would collapse without it".
http://www.keme.net/~carl/soul.htm -- Carly's garage site