Soul

Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party

Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party

It’s fun to watch bodies move around. Since Philadelphia’s jubilant Bandstand struck up a national obsession in the 1950s, the dance show has proven perhaps television’s most...

Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1

Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1

During his 40 years spent operating at the margins of the record business, Consolidated Productions founder Mel Alexander penned a total of 73 original songs. Across those same ...

Private Mind Garden

Private Mind Garden

It used to take more than a Distrokid account and cracked version of Ableton to get your music into the world. Back in the Before Times, an artist had two choices when it came t...

I Shall Wear A Crown

I Shall Wear A Crown

Never walk behind the pulpit in a Black Church. It’s an old tradition rooted in reverence and a...

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label

It looked as if a tornado had passed through the house, picked up the remnants of Arrow Brown’s strange, sordid life, and dumped them in the alley. September 1990: a warm breeze...

Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology

Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology

Four years in the making, this box set seeks not to finalize the Syl Johnson story but simply to set its foundations in stone. After three years drifting rudderless through phon...

Hoseanuary — A Month of R. Hosea Williams

Hoseanuary — A Month of R. Hosea Williams

Robert Hosea Williams was born in 1936 in tiny Princeton, Indiana. His father, Albert Williams, was far too ambitious to stay put in Princeton, a town best known as the early ho...