southern soul picked up musical cues and absorbed influences from a whole variety of sources: horn lines from Louisiana’s swamp pop
experiences and stories I‰۪d been told over the years
as the warped choir sings: ‘All the while you felt so alone/but all the while there were bugs in the phone and you were not alone
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots for answers
joined in places by David Ferguson on stand-up bass
Various - Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label Available On:2LP southern soul picked up musicalFrom 1967 1980, Kansas Citys Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement beehiver y from The Ray Ons and Four Darlings, funky soul from Gene Williams Lee Harris, Louis Chachere, and The Fantastiks, downtempo disco ballads from James Whitney and Sharon Revoal, and the newly independent work of James Browns former Soul Sister #1 Marva Whitney. Compiled here are 28 of the labels enduring sides, contextualized with