I'd thought I'd post a couple of cool soul clips.

[Blazer]

Chaka Kahn - "Nevah miss the water"
MAN, she still gives me goosebumps when she revs it up and lets it rip.


Beyonce Knowels and Tina Turner
Boy, Beyonce knows her place here. But what did you expect when being face to face with an absolute goddess...

[Basvarken]

For a moment you had me fooled there Blazer.

But both ladies have seen better days IMHO (I'm just ignoring Beyoncé here since we're talking about cool soul, okay?  )

Check out the early Rufus stuff if you wanna hear Chaka rip it up






And what about this Dutch recording of the young Tina!
The audience hasn't got a clue what's happening .
I can recommend the DVD, by the way. Great footage. Excellent quality.
The band is smokin'!

[chromium]

Amen to Rufus. 

Here's a few others that come to mind...

Gladys


The Dells (love the bass in this)


Booker T & The MGs


Chambers Brothers (doing an Impressions cover)


...and there's always this guy

[uwe]

Is this too rock already? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbaHaiIldA&feature=related

Based on that one Rockpalast gig in the late seventies, hitherto in Germany totally unknown band Mothers Finest conquered ze Vaterland and introduced rock 'n' funk in unsuspecting white households.

I think they never recovered from the loss of their keyboard player who gave their sound some elegant sheen keyboardless MF lineups later on lacked. And subsequent record releases would be torn between trying to be funky for US Black Radio airplay and rock out for a predominantly white audience. But in the late seventies they seemed to have everything nailed.

Drummer of this lineup is today with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Uwe

[Chris P.]

I love Booker T. & the MGS, but those two are the best soul vids ever:

[Basvarken]

And subsequent record releases would be torn between trying to be funky for US Black Radio airplay and rock out for a predominantly white audience.

Hence the title of their 1992 album "black radio won't play this record".

They're still an awesome band (IMHO). We were support for them a month ago in a completely sold out venue in Holland. Joyce looks like she won't ever age!

[Basvarken]

but those two are the best soul vids ever:

C'mon Chris.
Those are not soul clips IMHO.
Great music. Yes.
But Soul?? No, I wouldn't call it soul.

[uwe]

Soul, R'n'B whatever ...

Unless you reduce soul to black music played by black people, I think both the Small Faces (widely hailed as co-inventors of Brit "Northern Soul" - you certainly see where Paul Weller picked up some of his chops) and the Band track qualify as soul or R'n'B.

Even Krauts can do it:



Or - worse still - Austrians (falsely described as Germans in Dutch TV):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FlF_apwAyg&feature=related (note the RD playing bassist, though the recording was done with a Ric I believe!)

Scots do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWQZ6tvT-E&feature=related


Then Dutch girls cover it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpZb3XPrXw&feature=related

I even hear soul in that debut album of those Dutch newcomers Superfloor! It's running in my car right now, Baby Floor and the boys!

[Chris P.]

Please don't talk about Weller. I had an interview with him tonight and they called it of an hour before... I got a lousy phoner now next friday... And I have a deadline for 2.500 words for thursday.

@ Rob: I guess the timing of both Steve Marriott and Rick Danko is pure soul. (And let's not forget ex-Ikette PP Arnold in the TSF vid). I guess it's 300 per cent more soul than all the R. Kellys, Rihannas, et cetera together.

As a big Stax fan I love guys like Otis Redding, Eddy Floyd, the Staples (Mavis = soul!!) and all those real black soul guys, but I think Danko and Marriott are close. Of course I did it as a bit of a joke too, but I think those 60s british guys had more soul than all the rRnB and Soul you here on MTV nowadays.

O, and don't forget Steve Winwood!

Winwood, Dank and Steve were appreciated by those black guys too!

[chromium]

O, and don't forget Steve Winwood!

Ohhh yeahhh




And as much as I might get laughed out of the room, these fellas had their moments too

[gweimer]

I'll add a couple to the blue-eyed soul pile...

Hall and Oates:
http://www.youtube.com/v/Red3R17FlUQ&hl


http://www.youtube.com/v/yZtTmJ0NqGk&hl

Jamie Lidell (new age soul, and he's really good):
http://www.youtube.com/v/fkqIsSTWSsc&hl

[nofi]

best blue eyed soul singer imo is jimmy hall from wet willie. also include jerry lacroix from edgar winter's white trash.

[gweimer]

best blue eyed soul singer imo is jimmy hall from wet willie. also include jerry lacroix from edgar winter's white trash.

I would argue that Jerry LaCroix was more gospel than soul.

[HornetAMX]

I love classic soul music.  This is one of my favorite sites that I've had bookmarked forever.

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/

[nofi]

uwe, the current drummer for lynyrd skynyrd never played for mother's finest. the mf drummer at that time was barry 'b b queen' borden. borden did play with molley hatchet, the outlaws and currently marshall tucker band.

jerry lacroix did have his gospel moments but i always considered him a soul shouter.