The Soul Train – A Resolution? How about a Revolution
You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself…
The Soul Train – This Christmas
Hang all the mistletoe, I’m gonna get to know you better. This Christmas So the opening line of the sleigh-bells chiming soul standard that’s been an ever-present in my Christmas…
The Soul Train – Street Sounds
What do MJ’s “Thriller” album, E.T – the Extra-Terrestrial movie and the closure of the DeLorean factory in Belfast have in common? 1982. 40 years ago. 1982 also saw the…
The Soul Train – Bobby Womack
If a group of peaceful Aliens came to visit earth and said to me “What is the definition of this ‘Soul Music’ you people listen to?” – my answer would…
The Soul Train – Brit-Funk
The 1970s & 1980s in Britain, saw the nation become a proverbial melting pot. During the 1950s and 60’s immigration and population boom post World War II, we saw both…
The Soul Train – The Funk Sister
Memphis, Tennessee is famous in a musical sense for Graceland and the King of Rock-n-Roll Elvis Aaron Presley. And yet, in the midst of this, it’s also a hotbed of…
The Soul Train – The Funk Brothers
Detroit, Michigan, 1961. The music world is still gripped by Elvis Presley and that Rock-N-Roll fever. The Beatles haven’t even become the Quarrymen yet, and Stevie Wonder is 11 years…
The Soul Train – Keep On Movin’
March 1989. Rain Man wins at the Oscars. With a hole in the Ozone layer, the EU bans CFCs use by the year 2000. The Exxon Valdez disaster spills 10.8m…
The Soul Train – Mercy Mercy Me
When we think of artists and especially talented people, they’re not just pretty good, but prolific and prodigious. We can see – after their moments of prodigiousness – they are…
Soul Train #2
People, get ready, there’s a train a-comin’ You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’ Don’t need no…