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Sampler #4
If you weren’t lucky enough to come along to Soulshack last month to catch our guest DJ set you wouldn’t of been able to pick up one of our free give away Samplers. Luckily for you though we have uploaded it to our music page. Check it out now it is quite splendid, if we do say so ourselves!
News:
SoulBoy will be screening from the 3rd –9th of September at the Empire Leicester Square, London. You can see a full list of where the film is playing here
Shimmy Marcus’s sweet film is set in the Wigan Casino northern soul scene of 1974. Martin Compston gives a very likeable performance as the delivery boy dreaming of nights of glory on the dancefloor and getting the prettiest girl , Nichola Burley.
The role of session musicians making backing tracks within the record industry is widely documented. The likes of the mighty Funk Brothers within the iron clad walls of the 1960’s Motown empire, and their equally influential counterparts in Booker T & The MG’s as the driving force for the Stax label, are global phenomena on their own merits, between them clocking up an immense catalogue of work.
Now I’m a sucker for an instrumental, I wont lie to you. As much as I love a soulful howling vocal track an instrumental gives you the opportunity to concentrate on the true genius of the musicians and arrangers of the 60’s American Soul scene. A trumpet blast here, a saxophone honk there, ringing guitars, rolling bass lines and insane tight drum breaks have all come together to create some of my favourite Northern Soul instrumentals. I’ve brought along some of my favourite 45’s for your perusal, I do hope you enjoy a look through my 45 case…
Have I mentioned I loved the Blues Brothers? For those of us not quite old enough to have gone to the Casino or the original Twisted Wheel, Va-Va’s or the Torch the stellar cast of the Blues Brothers will have been one of the first significant forays into the wonderful world of soul music and in particular the catalogues of Stax, Volt and Atlantic, and whilst undoubtedly those labels weren’t absolutely the be all and end all of soul, they were a darned fine place to start.
When you think of Soul, you might think of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson or Martha Reeves, but as great as those artists were as singers and in some cases song writers too, what would their stock have been without the incredible musicians that backed them?
