Sunday, July 20, 2008

Soulful Sunday

One of the greatest soul songs of all time, Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love":



You may remember it from the Blues Brothers movie, but that's cool, they had Cropper and Duck behind 'em:



Another in the same spirit is Bobby Blue Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light":



Let's not forget the biggest root of soul music, black gospel, and one of its foot-in-both-camps exponents, O.V. Wright:



God, I hate to leave James Carr out of this post, doing "You've Got My Mind Messed Up." Can anyone identify the players in this? I think I see the Memphis Horns, and Teenie Hodges in one of his space cadet outfits, playing one of those Steinberger headless guitars he likes.

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