Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Scratch My Soul Northern Girls Belleruche lead singer was Kathrin DeBoer, very much in the style of Queen Latifa. A British Soul band. Their 2008 track, Northern Girls, was part of a Mercedes Advertisement in 2011. They broke up in 2018, a shame really, as they produced a smooth electronic sound which was very cool. … Read more
The Wolf That House Built (debut cd 1994) RIDE ON (Fight On) Hard Grind CD 2002 just brilliant. Dark As Night cold As Ground Unique style of mixing from Little Axe. He had a blues background with a father who was an amateur blues player, he had a sojourn into Hip Hop before returning to … Read more
Shout To The Top We think Shout To The Top has got Soul. The Jam had Soul (yes really!) and they were obviously born again Mods. The Style Council followed on. The group lasted from 1983 to 1989 and incorporated various musicians, often on the scene in different groups. Mick Talbot, the keyboard player came … Read more
Just Ain’t Gonna’ Work Out Great song, by Mayer Hawthorne and the County – nice to see Soul evolving, continuing, growing: great music genres do, they go on forever! Real name: Andrew Mayer Cohen, he is a man of many talents. As well as being a proficient musician, he is a producer, songwriter and audio … Read more
Sorry Slave To The Rhythm Pull Up To The Bumper Private Life Drama Warm Leatherette One of Grace Jones’ best records I believe is Sorry and of course many of her other songs are great, many are funky and Soulful, and disco techno style too. Grace Jones was born in Jamaica and moved to New York … Read more
Warrior Great song by Andy Caldwell Good feeling to it. Is it Soul? You decide. Lots of new wave ‘House’ music is becoming Funky, slow, Soulful. Andy Caldwell is a House DJ. The singer on Warrior is Lisa Shaw. Andy Caldwell – Wikipedia
HAPPY First recorded by Pharrell Williams father – Andre Williams as Velvet Hammer. No? Well it could have been… Unfortunately he got involved in a plagiarizing scandal with that Robin Thicke guy – maybe the names is a clue as they copied Marvin Gaye with an aptly named song: Blurred Lines Oh dear! Rather an appropriate … Read more
The Uncomfortable Truth Well, this is not bad. Pity she went Hip Hoppy – that’s the uncomfortable truth. Nneka – Wikipedia
TELEVISION – The Drug Of The Nation We don’t care for Hip Hop, but this guy is not adhering to the awful lyrics and images of modern mainstream Hip Hop. He has interesting lyrics. The artist is Michael Franti. His best CD collection is: HYPOCRISY IS THE GREATEST LUXURY An intelligent Hip Hop classic Disposable Heroes … Read more
Apple Tree On and On I first saw Erykah Badhu performing on the Jools Holland Show. She popped up as a witchy woman in the film The Blues Brothers 2000. Funky Nassau with Soul too. Great different stylist singer, she has the nickname of ‘Queen of Neo Soul’. She created a certain amount of controversy … Read more