The first ever guide to soul recordings, this book – the latest in a popular and well–established series – is an essential purchase for anyone wishing to build up a comprehensive record collection. Each chapter of the Guide provides an essential list of fifteen releases, and a basic list of thirty. The essential releases are those from artists most likely to be recognized by the general public – singers such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder – and they each get extended comments. The basic lists is designed to supplement this and cover some of the ?lesser? artists, and also the tangents and by–ways of the genre – Latin Soul, Low rider music and soul–blues. In its 405 entries, the Guide covers not only music from the golden era of soul – the early 1960s to the mid–1970s – but also the 1950s rhythm and blues that preceded it, and the disco, funk and African American styles which followed. Eight of the leading British and...

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