I have to confess I never really paid much attention to the rise of D’Angelo, wrongly filing him away as a smooth R&B crooner of bedroom ballads.

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Here’s a song from 1971 that I’ve never heard before by an artist I’ve never heard of before – Christopher Blue.

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Here’s a slice of vintage funk from the streets of the motor city. Except it’s not. D/Troit are an all-white funk revival outfit from… Copenhagen.

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Clean Up Woman is one of the greatest soul songs of all time, recorded by Betty Wright when she was only 17. I’m amazed I’ve not posted it before. (more…)

Tony Clarke never had a big hit in his lifetime but is revered here for one of the biggest Northern Soul favourites of all time – Landslide. (more…)

This was the first single The Impressions released with Curtis Mayfield as lead singer. (more…)

This song’s lyrics could not be more pertinent today – half a century after it was recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.

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Motown songwriting legend Eddie Holland wrote, sang and produced the soul song that would one day become Motorhead’s debut single.

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If James Brown was the godfather of soul, then Sly Stone was the wayward genius of a younger brother who followed him into the family trade.

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El Michels Affair make impeccably crafted cinematic instrumentals recreating the sound of late-Sixties and early-Seventies funk and soul.

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