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Welcome to Issue 47, a massive R&B manifesto. In this edition’s spread, you’ll find the likes of soul legends Earth, Wind & Fire, Ramsey Lewis, Roy C, Lamont Dozier, Billy Ocean, Bobby Womack, Dennis Coffey, and Solomon Burke! During the 1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire rose to fame as the most commercially successful Black band with over ninety million records sold worldwide. The dynamic ensemble created a sound of their own by effortlessly melding jazz, rock, soul, gospel, funk, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms. While soul-jazz musician Ramsey Lewis collaborated with Earth, Wind & Fire on the masterpiece Sun Goddess, he created successes of his own with his ability to consistently evolve, keeping him relevant through sixty years of recordings.

Though he began his career with dreams of becoming a boxer, a hard hit to the face redirected Roy C. Hammond’s path. Luckily Roy C acted on his other interests and has fiercely dedicated the past five decades to the music industry that he often pushed against. Ultimately Roy C became the heavyweight he’d always dreamt of being, just in another sense. In the same manner of challenging norms, Lamont Dozier and his partners Eddie and Brian Holland broke away from Motown in order to establish their own recording company. Not long after the creation of Invictus, Lamont Dozier embarked on his solo career, creating the same opportunity for himself that he afforded so many Motown acts.

What hasn’t Bobby Womack done? The self-taught soul legend has played guitar for acts such as Ray Charles and Janis Joplin, toured with Sam Cooke, and wrote the masterpiece Across 110th Street, among many other achievements. Before finding international success and stardom with a string of well-known radio hits, Billy Ocean grinded on the U.K. circuit for well over a decade. The singer-songwriter released a handful of singles and four relatively unknown albums, which included a mix of ballads, Caribbean-influenced R&B, club-shaking disco, synth-filled boogie, and even country-inflected Southern soul. Solomon Burke was born in the church—literally. So when he got his shot at Atlantic Records, he tried to reject Jerry Wexler’s notion of secular rhythm and blues, aiming to stick to his roots and make “soul” music. Despite recording and touring for five decades, and even having a bona fide late-life comeback, he never truly got the recognition he deserved in the genre he helped invent.

Join us as we head toward our fiftieth issue and ten years of publishing!

Plus:
Record Rundown with Cool Chris
Record Rundown with Dennis Coffey
David Lee
The Bo-Keys
The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Brief Encounter
Melvin Sparks Remembered
Marcia Griffiths, The Marvelettes, Ruth Copeland, The Notations, and Terry Callier RE:Discovered

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Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

theAudience said:

David Lee
The Bo-Keys
The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Brief Encounter
Melvin Sparks Remembered
Marcia Griffiths, Ruth Copeland, The Notations, and Terry Callier

Don't know these acts

MickyDolenz said:

theAudience said:

David Lee
The Bo-Keys
The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Brief Encounter
Melvin Sparks Remembered
Marcia Griffiths, Ruth Copeland, The Notations, and Terry Callier

Don't know these acts

That's what so great about the magazine.
They generally focus on musical talents that are historically significant for one reason or another.
Also showcased are behind-the-scene individuals (writers, arrangers, engineers) and also those that may be relatively unknown (to the general public anyway) that may only have a cult following but are musically viable and don't have a heavyweight publicity machine behind them.

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New-School desciples of the historic Memphis Soul sound and the band includes Old-School masters of that classic period.

The Bo-Keys...



...Spanish Delight & Work That Skirt

NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/0...phis-sound

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David Lee was an entrenpreneur (song writer, label starter & record store owner) that chronicled the Pop/Soul/Gosple/Country sounds of the Carolinas from the 50s into the 80s.




Probably his best known work would be this recording featuring a young Ann Sexton....



...You're Letting Me Down


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Don't have time to go through all the names but the above should give you an idea of the type of subject matter the magazine goes into.
If you're truly interested in the "music" aspect of things as opposed to the "celebrity" angle, this magazine is well worth the subscription price.



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

MickyDolenz said:

The Spanish Delight song is really nice.

Indeed.

Sounds authentically Old-School but was released in 2004.

Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

Marcia Griffiths was a member of the I-Threes, Bob Marley's back up singers after Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh went on to solo careers.

Besides her work with Marley she's probably best known for for the crossover disco-reaggae hit Electric Boogie but she's really an accomplished stylist.

Try this familiar classic: