Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LADY SOUL (Atlantic). When ex-Gospel Singer Aretha Franklin sings the blues, they are likely to pour forth wild, bright and triumphant. Aretha's big voice soars and loops and knifes through a swinging rock combo as she sings her own hit, Since You've Been Gone, and her sister
Carolyn's plaintive outcry, Ain't No Way. Then there is Chain of Fools, with its heavy rhythm and mesmerizing chant ("Chain, chain, chain") by the harmonious quartet known as The Sweet Inspirations. AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE (Reprise). Soul gone psychedelic? Oldtime Blues Singer Muddy Waters recently sounded the death knell of his own brand of blues: "They ain't no more of our kids comin' up. They been havin' too good a time." Jimi Hendrix, whose recording this is, learned guitar from Muddy Waters records, but Muddy never taught him to pluck the strings...
...wonder. Tiny Tim is a gentle soul who happens to be the most bizarre entertainer this side of Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. His specialties are pop songs from early decades of the century, and his performances flicker with a genuine talent for re-creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption...
...rejecting the most intensive contact that can exist among human beings outside their private lives. As opposed to those who play it cool, the theater at its passionate best plays it nothing but hot. With molten fury it welds mind to mind, heart to heart, skin to skin, and soul to soul. Whenever the theater is weak, it is because man is denying man and shielding his feeblest self from the pain, power, majesty and glory of existence. But this is the only language that great drama ever spoke, and will again speak in a great theatrical...