Modern Soul is very much a personal thing. Many songs calling themselves Soul are nothing of the kind of course. But just look at the group Alabama Shakes perform and tell us they are not a soul band and we will have to strongly disagree.

RESPECT (1989) Great version by Adeva just grooves along. I always loved this song first from Otis Redding, then a ...
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Alabama Shakes are a soul/blues band incorporating a real soulful sound. Comparisions have been made between the vocalist Brittney Howard ...
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Hurry On Now Alice Russell started out with the Quantic Soul Orchestra. Alice @ Wikipedia ...
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Lost Where I Belong - 2010 Andreya Triana is a modern British soul singer and songwriter from London. Lost Where ...
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Warrior Great song by Andy Caldwell Good feeling to it. Is it Soul? You decide. Andy Caldwell - Universal Truth ...
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Wish I Didn't Miss You (2002) JJ remix When I first heard this song by Angie Stone I thought 'what ...
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Scratch My Soul Northern Girls Belleruche lead singer is Kathrin DeBoer, very much in the style of Queen Latifa. A ...
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After The Lovin' Beverley Knight - the current Queen of popular British Soul music. A great voice and her covers ...
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Ja Miss Me Billy Valentine was born in 1926. Great R&B singer and musician. He also recorded as Billy Vee ...
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Never Stop Spend Some Time Dream Come True Stay This Way Midnight At The Oasis (Orig: Maria Muldower) Vocalist N'dea ...
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Eastbound (2005) Instrumental The Budos Band formed in 2005 and provide an African beat to a soul sound. The Budos ...
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Love Will Set You Free Carrie Cleveland ...
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Old Fashioned Crazy CeeLo Green first came to prominence with his huge hit as Gnarls Barkley in 2006 with the ...
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This Girl (2009) Great modern R n' B and Soul band. Sounds like they are heavily influenced by barbie cooking ...
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Put Your Records On Corinne Bailey Rae is a Sweet Soul singer and song writer from Leeds, Yorkshire, England. She ...
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TELEVISION – The Drug Of The Nation We don’t care for Hip Hop, but this guy is not adhering to ...
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MERCY (2008) Great record and homage to that Soul sound of Don Covey that inspired it: very nostalgic of 1967! ...
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A Girl Like You Len Barry's 1 2 3 drums are re-sampled on this track by Edwyn Collins but a ...
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Just a kiss from You Slick, slow modern Soul by Elizabeth Withers ...
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Apple Tree On and On I first saw Erykah Badhu performing on the Jools Holland Show. She popped up as ...
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Out Of My League (2013) Good modern Soul stuff from Fitz And The Tantrums. See their official website for more ...
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The Wig Just when you thought the sound of the sixties was well and truly over, Floyd James and The ...
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The Promise Including this song by Girls Aloud in Soulbot might upset some purists, but come on, this is a ...
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(2006) Gnarls Barkley had a Huge hit with Crazy he is the front man of several bands and 'real' name ...
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Sorry Slave To The Rhythm Pull Up To The Bumper Private Life Drama Warm Leatherette One of Grace Jones’ best ...
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FABULOUS From Ghetto Love, the album by Jaheim. Okay hands up I just like this song, I'm not getting into ...
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(Marriage Is Only) A State Of Mind (1988) James Carpenter ...
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James Hunter Lookout James Hunter was initially part of Howlin Wilf's band before forming his own, James Hunter Six. He ...
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Another Day Jamie Lidell [[Jamie Lidell]] ...
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You're Not All That A great bit of a modern soul groove by Jessica Darling (The Herbaliser) - just like ...
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I Got The Power Well, this track by JoAnn Courcy is certainly a great sound. Good example of all the ...
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Stranger In This The Land Joy Denalane is the German Soul diva. Real name: Yvonne Davis - Well, this is ...
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Mamma Used To Say Too Late Junior Giscombe [[Junior Giscombe]] ...
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When You Love Somebody (2007) Fantastically moody modern Soul song by Leela James - great stuff. [[Leela James]] ...
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Feel Like Making Love Okay some Soul purists will think we have lost our Soul marbles by including this by ...
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So Intense Get Back To Love Lisa Fischer was onne of the backing singers featured in the film 20 feet ...
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Never, Never Gonna Give You Up Ower little Lisa Stansfield frompt Rochdale! I remember her listening to records in a ...
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The Wolf That House Built (debut cd 1994) RIDE ON (Fight On) Hard Grind CD 2002 just brilliant. Dark As ...
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Fever (1970) Soul Fever. Mary Queenie Lyons' LP was released in 1970 on James Brown's King label, upon which she did ...
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Just Ain't Gonna Work Out Mayer Hawthorne. [[Mayer Hawthorne]] ...
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Just Ain't Gonna' Work Out Great song, by Mayer Hawthorne and the County - nice to see Soul evolving, continuing, ...
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My One Temptation (1988) Mica Paris [[Mica Paris]] ...
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(Bring Back) Sweet Soul Music (2010) Might Mo Rodgers is little short of a genius. This song (Bring Back) Sweet ...
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Soul is alive and kicking in the 21st century, Modern Soul. We would never have believed it in 1964 when ...
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Queen of the Minstrels That Soul Girl Dancing Mr Day (Monsieur Jour?), unusual name - sang this nice gentle track ...
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Mind The Gap Mind The Gap by Nabiha is nice but Sweet Loving is also a great track. FACEBOOK [[Nabiha]] ...
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To Prove My Love (1978) Ned Doheny [[Ned Doheny]] ...
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Indian Love Call Some great sounds of sixties style R&B and Soul from Nick Waterhouse. He is a guitarist, singer ...
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Feeling Free SOUL is alive and well and still kicking in 2014 with several emerging and established artists and groups ...
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The Uncomfortable Truth Well, this is not bad. Pity she went Hip Hoppy - that’s the uncomfortable truth. Nneka - ...
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Someone You Use Forget What I Said Soulful and Bluesy a great album from Noora Noor. She has a Somali ...
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There's Nothing Like This Omar is a British singer and song writer (real name Omar Lye-Fook) who released There's Nothing ...
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Hold You Close Open Souls are a modern Soul group from New Zealand (2001 - 2011) and a truly fantastic ...
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Quicksand With a name like Osaka Monaurail you might think they are a band of Japanese trainspotters, but far from ...
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Above The Clouds That's a great song .. but ... what's Paul Weller doin' in this Soul database? Well he ...
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HAPPY First recorded by Pharrell Williams father - Andre Williams as Velvet Hammer. No? Well it could have been... Unfortunately he ...
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Loving You, Losing You I really love this song by Phyllis Hyman, it just grows and grows on you the ...
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Money Doesn't Matter Tonight This track by Prince would certainly have got into a sixties Soul DJ's play list if ...
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Slippin Sort of nice Japanese styled song by Quadron. Alt+/RnB new styled - Soul? Who knows, who cares; great song, ...
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Baby Get Lost Okay song from Queen Latifa the popular Jazz singer. [[Queen Latifa]] ...
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Crying In The Rain Plain & Simple Rachel And The Soul Criminals ...
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LOVE THAT GIRL Movin' Down The Line Raphael Saadiq is a modern cool stylish Soul singer in the vein of ...
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Got 2 Be Down Robin Thicke? Well he can't be that thick with girls like this! And this is a ...
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YOUR LOVE IS KING Sade gives a wonderful Soul Jazz performance and this is a considerably stylish song. Then she ...
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All The Times I Cried Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish singer with Soul, part of a band called Texas. This ...
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Lots of great stuff from this ex - Jail guard - died of cancer in 2016 - fantastic voice, great ...
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JIGSAW (2009) Shawn Lee released Jigsaw in 2009. Very modern and very reminiscent of the sixties Soul sound. A really ...
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Janice (Don't Be So Blind To Love) 1980 This track by Skip Mahoney is much more of a 'modern' style ...
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Surrender Is This track by Swing Out Sister SOUL ? I like it and it certainly has a Soul feeling ...
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If You Let Me Stay Sign Your Name (across My Heart) Terence Trent D'arby served in the USA Army in ...
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Uchils Groove (1994) The Ballistic Brothers were a British based band comprising Ashley Beedle, Rocky & Diesel and David Hill ...
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The Bamboos I Don't Wanna Stop - Tru Thoughts is their independent record label based in Brighton, UK. A Soul ...
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Time Has Come Today - Colombia USA, 1968, UK DIRECTION Records Are You Ready The Chambers Brothers released a record ...
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Plenty Nasty The Diplomats of Solid Soul were an excellent band - did a very nice cover version of B-A-B-Y ...
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Homeless Child The Holmes Brothers - a Bluesy, Gospel group. They have worked with Van Morrison and made two studio ...
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Raincloud Lighthouse Family are a British duo who formed in 1993, stayed together until the early 2000s and then reformed ...
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Shout To The Top We think Shout To The Top has got Soul. The Jam had Soul (yes really!) and ...
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Do It Right (2008) The Sweet Vandals are a great Spanish outfit that did at least one great album; mainly ...
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MONEY'S TOO TIGHT (TO MENTION) (1982) The Valentine Brothers released the above which was later recorded by Mick Hucknall as ...
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All At Once (Its You I Miss) Lighten' Up Baby Wear Your Natural Baby (As: Towana & the Total Destruction) ...
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You Can't be Told Got that old style bluesy rhythm on this modern song. Sings a wide range of material, ...
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Be My Baby Quirky song French MOD sixties. Vanessa Paradis had her first success at 14 with Joe Le Taxi ...
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Groove On A remix version of Willie Hale's Groove On by Yoyo Honey, however its pretty good ...
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