Soul

My Motown to Memphis radio show on East Devon Radio.
Every Saturday from 6 to 8pm
Is all about the very best mix of music from the the wonderful world of Soul music.
Expect to hear the well known and not so well known.

Ms. Nickki, you already know her a little, even without having heard her. She, her sister, her grandmother, had been shaking the stage of black vaudeville theaters for decades when they cut the first blues in the 1920s. their voices of bronze the great orchestras of Kansas City and the pianos of the slaps of New Orleans. Rhythm’n’blues, with Big Mama, the Chicago Blues, with Koko, soul above all have consecrated them. At the end of the 1980s, their little cousin from the Bronx imposed the same freedom, the same sincerity, in macho and flashy hip-hop. Even more, when the intoxication of Saturday gives way to the joy of Sunday, you have heard them thundering in the temple the announcement of happy days. They are still there, if you listen to them.

Ms. Nickki, it’s a simple story, which you’ll recognize from all those other women. Childhood in Holly Springs, in these rural hills of North Mississippi, bastion which gave us Fred McDowell, the Burnsides, the Kimbroughs, where the Reverend John Wilkins preaches . The Sunday temple, where the whole community bursts into gospel songs and dances, and where, like so many other singers, she takes the lead as a child for her favorite hymn, her program of life: “This little light that I ai, I’m going to let her shine ”. Then adulthood, and the rural exodus to Memphis, for work.

Damn Fine Chai will quench your thirst and leave you in serenity through audio waves

Stylus were an Australian blue-eyed soul group formed in 1975. They were the only Australian act to be released by Motown Records in the USA. Stylus toured supporting George Benson, Average White Band, Ike & Tina Turner, and Little River Band. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, Stylus "scored a number of hit singles and became very popular on the Australian pub and concert circuit". The group disbanded in 1979 and subsequently had various reunions. In 1998-99 Japan's Toshiba-EMI re-issued three Stylus albums on CDs (For the Love of Music, Best Kept Secret and Part of It All). Their reunions have resulted in a live album, Still Alive (2003); and a new studio album, Across Time (2010).