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TarTar
Posted - 02/10/2014 : 21:33:27 I've been working as a substitute at a record store in town the last year. It's not steady work but if either of the managers cannot make it in for a shift, I cover it. One of the managers is young and ambitious about organizing the various sections to the max and I often go in to help with projects. Since the store doesn't have a lot of money to throw around, I often get paid in records or CDs in exchange for my time helping with these projects. The manager has developed a growing interest in soul and funk music the last couple years. He has a radio show on the college station where he plays only soul/funk 45s. He scours record bins around the midwest for treasures to play on this program. Our soul/funk section in the store has grown immensely as his interest and passion for the genre has, and I cannot believe how much I overlooked this genre for most of my years.
Apart from Sly & The Family Stone, Otis Redding and Parliament/Funkadelic, I hadn't really dove into this music much at all. Of course I was familiar with some of the basic Motown hits, but there's so much more. Obviously Numero has been putting out good compilations of super obscure soul music for some time, but there's a lot of forgotten bigger players in the genre, like Clyde McPhatter, Eddie Kendricks, Zapp, The Gap Band, to name but a few.
I was fortunate enough to see a newer artist to recorded soul music, Charles Bradley, back in December when a buddies girlfriend couldn't make it to a show his mother had bought them tickets to see, and it was spectacular.
