![]() ![]() La référence absolue sur la Soul et du rythm 'n' Blues du sud des États-Unis ! I’ll seek out Peter Guralnick’s other books because this one displays his passion for music and honest writing. ![]() How Muscle Shoals, Alabama became an unlikely recording capitol is a fascinating tale, as are the stories of Dan Penn, Chips Moman (who together wrote “Dark End of the Street,” one of the best songs of all time) and Spooner Oldham, all of whom started there and gravitated to Memphis (another soul hot spot.)Ī significant point made in the book is: in the southern soul music scene, at Stax and the other Memphis studios as well as in Muscle Shoals, “the key to it all, was black and white together, working as a team.” It takes three chapters to cover Stax Records and all the characters involved with it. Aretha Franklin gets her own substantial chapter. Solomon Burke gets his own chapter, as does Otis Redding. Guralnick focuses on these individualists who created soul and also the places they did it. Unlike Motown, “aimed specifically at reaching the white market,” and tightly controlled by the industry, “southern soul music, on the other hand, was a haven for free-lancers and individualists.” Soul was the result of gospel influencing R&B, Guralnick contends. ![]() It took Peter Guralnick five years to complete the book, originally published in 1985. This feels like a comprehensive history of southern-rooted soul music. ![]()
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