Soul

Soul huh?

So you're looking to expand your music interests and aren't quite ready to delve into hip-hop and don't know commercial r&b music quite yet (we'll cover

hip-hop at a later time). Let me
suggest you wade into the pool of soul music for starters. In order to do so we need to differentiate a little. When I refer to soul music here I am not referring to funk or disco. I am not referring to modern day r&b either although this would be a more modern version of soul music.

But in order to decipher all of the modern day garbage produced under the guise of r&b you need to start with an understanding of what truly good soul is and is not. For this I have compiled a list of some of the essentials to start you off with. By no means is this a complete list but it is a very good start into the world of soul music and eventually into an appreciation for the good modern day r&b music.
Here goes....

If you can give yourself some honest time to devote to the list above it will change the way you view music. You will demand better from today's r&b musicians. Music meant someting other than a paycheck to every one of the above mentioned artists. They would have made soul music for free and without recognition because each of them had a story to tell.There are a few today that, at times, remind me of the soul music found in listening to Stevie and Marvin. Here's a few of them....