Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afterward, spent and exalted, Lady Soul said something that nobody in the church that night needed to be told: "My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left...
...fierce, gritty conviction. She flexes her rich, cutting voice like a whip; she lashes her listeners ?in her words?"to the bone, for deepness." "Aretha's music makes you sweaty, gives you a chill, makes you want to stomp your feet," says Bobby Taylor, leader of a soul group called Bobby and the Vancouvers. More simply, a 19-year-old Chicago fan named Lorraine Williams explains: "If Aretha says it, then it's important...
...opts for those that frame her own view of life. "If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good," she says. "But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is about?just living and having to get along...
...Aretha, as for soul singers generally, "just living and having to get along" mostly involves love?seeking it, celebrating its fulfillment, and especially bemoaning its loss. Aretha pleads in Since You've Been Gone...
...earthy candor of the soul sound, love is inescapably, bluntly physical. In Respect, she wails...