Soul Sustenance

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

A music from a people that is America's own
Yes, I lived through the following era.



The Atlantic Records Story



The VeeJay Records Story



Respect Yourself Stax Records Story (BBC 4 documentary)


Anomaly?

Muscle Shoals
This one makes a lie out of 'Blue Eyed Soul'



Wanted to go on chronologically with Atco
and Philadelphia Int'l and others but found
nothing the calibre of any of the above.

[anansi]

Hey I used to watch grown folks talked about having no good music and swing to this stuff, while we low-key tasted what they were having in them glass while they were distracted..😁

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Ooool! HaHah!!


4 me t/memory is

Block Parties in the summer in the city
Beer Garden Parties in the summer out in the country



I'ma tell you though
I felt some kinda way
finding a certain soul
sound of the 60s was
actually written
played, and produced
by Alabama yte boys
whose boss declares
himself a cracker.

Well, as the ancient African author penned
I am human and nothing human is alien to me
[not his precise words but wood drifts it does]
Talk about flip the script