A brief intro...
Soul Fan & Collector since I was 13 yrs Old, Love Detroit, Chicago, NY, Memphis & New Orleans music. (Just all soul music)
Primary Focus is Motown, (bit of a completist) more importantly of recent years the early & pre Motown recordings involving Berry Gordy & Billy Davis (Ro-Gor/ Fidelity etc) including all of the related Jobete recordings on other labels.
Difficult to select one favourite Soul Record, the 45 that hooked me on soul was Jackie Wilson's "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher" the ultimate Northern has to Be Johnny Sayles with "Can't Get enough" . For Motown it has to be Barbara McNair & "Your Gonna Love My Baby" so much Motown related to choose from, but again Barbara McNair gets me with "It Was Never Like This" on Warner Brothers. Deep soul has to be Tommy Turner with "I'll Be Gone". For a tinge of "Blues" nothing better than Big Maybelle & "Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me". The R&B masterpiece for me anyway has to Otis Lee "Hard Row To Hoe". Finally if ever there was a record that stops you in your tracks and brings tears to your eyes Walter Jackson's "Not You" sheer magic.
I Could just go on!
