WHERE IT IS

There are things which precede the beginnings. There is the innermost and then there is within-within: Soul music is ah innermost within. The Soul Sound-the sound that comes to us via sitar and sarod-via an emotional Religious Vibrance-via the pens of Mayfield, Robinson, Bacherach, and the Lennon and McCartney duo-and via the gifted throats; of the blind, the cripple, the obese, the literate, the brazen, and the crusader. This music is not a conquerer? it instead surrenders itself to its next expressionist. Being a love Sound-Soul cultivates in depth intercourse between artist, sound, and lyric. (The Master Blender) Soul is a multiplicity of sound equaled in number only by it’s people-soul people. The wide spread inter-involvement brought out through the manifestations of the soul sound has changed the geography of music. There is no Detroit Sound, Memphis Sound, Chicago Sound, nor New York Sound. The soul, scene in Detroit is indicative of the totality of this integration. The sound and it’s people are in evidence from. ARTHUR to PHELPS LOUNGE. From the CHATTER BOX to tiie DRIFTWOOD. From the GRANDE to the DISC JOCKEY! Gather the impliments of your Euphoria-turn on-to the sound! Listen to the “Evil” of the Howlin Wolf, The Simple Song of the Different Strokes. The unadulterated Funk of Watts. The Julia of Meryl Saunders. The tragedy of David Ruffin, and a look back in Joy at Walter Jackson’s Greatest.

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Ciao ... Richard Smith