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Soul Serenade: Steve Cropper, “Dedicated – A Salute to the 5 Royales”
Lowman Pauling and the 5 Royales were a seminal influence on the young Steve Cropper. The legendary guitarist pays tribute to the group on a fine new album
Read More »Soul Serenade: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Live in Pawtucket, R.I.
Last summer Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings blew away a Newport Folk Festival crowd. Last week they were back in Rhode Island, and Ken Shane was there
Read More »Live Music: Newport Folk Festival 2010, Part Two
If anything, the final day of the 2010 Newport Folk Festival was even more beautiful than the day before, and Newport Harbor was at the height of its midsummer glory. Arriving early has its
Read More »CD Review: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, “I Learned the Hard Way”
Retro-soul is a musical style in which contemporary artists attempt to recapture the sound and feel of the great soul music of the ’60s and early ’70s. Musical touchstones include the sounds of Motown,
Read More »CD Review: Various Artists, “Daptone Gold”
At the beginning of this decade, sax player Neal Sugarman and bassist Gabriel Roth founded Daptone Records in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. They put together a studio in a small house there, and
Read More »Mojo’s Cold Shot: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
Be still my soul. Lawd have mercy. When soul first came out, so many social issues made so many people so PO’d (civil rights, Vietnam, rioting in seemingly every urban area, drug abuse, the
Read More »CD Review: The Revelations featuring Tre Williams, “Deep Soul”
I love soul music in each and every one of its glorious permutations, so it’s been gratifying for me to listen as a new generation of soul masters has taken the spotlight in the
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