soul Archive
22 Jul 2017
Album Review: John Gary Williams
Memphis-based Stax Records had a long, impressive and tumultuous history. The label that was home to legendary artists like Booker T & the MGs, Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes produced […]
01 Jul 2017
Musoscribe’s 8th Anniversary Post: Four from Playback Records
Today I’m celebrating the eight-year anniversary of this Musoscribe online music magazine. I started the blog in June 2009, but I had already been writing for many years. Eventually I […]
01 May 2017
Album Mini-review: Chicano Batman — Freedom is Free
File next to: War, Mayer Hawthorne, Sly & the Family Stone The spirit of late-sixties psychedelic soul is alive in Chicano Batman. On this collection of twelve socially aware originals, […]
19 Apr 2017
Chicano Batman: It’s Playtime
The style of music known as “psychedelic soul” enjoyed an all-too-brief heyday in the late 1960s. Deftly fusing elements of African American soul and the dreamier end of psychedelic rock, […]
13 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: Wild Adriatic — Feel
File next to: The Heavy, The New Mastersounds, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings This NYC-based trio describes its music as “power soul,” and for once a genre label is dead-on […]
28 Mar 2017
Lee Fields’ Pure Soul Music
Sometimes it takes decades to become an overnight sensation. Such is the case of soul stirrer Lee Fields; though he released his first single, “Bewildered” b/w “Tell Her I Love […]
24 Mar 2017
Roy Ayers’ Positive Vibrations
Few popular musicians have been successful at making a switch from one genre to another while holding on to a substantial fan base. Singer and vibraphonst Roy Ayers has done […]
22 Mar 2017
Quick Takes, Part Three
Today I take a quick look at ten archival releases of note. Tim Buckley — Wings: The Complete Singles 1966-1974 The music of Tim Buckley (yeah, late father of the […]
21 Mar 2017
Quick Takes, Part Two
More quick-take reviews … Pop Co-op – Four State Solution Making an album via file sharing – instead of the old-fashioned method of gathering in a studio – is now […]
17 Mar 2017
The Nth Power: Maximum Musical Skills
New Orleans supergroup delivers spirituality and soul live onstage and on a pair of new albums The hypnotic, deep-groove funky soul of The Nth Power is a big draw on […]