Southern soul is a style of music that falls within the larger soul music and r&b Music genres.
Often identified with artists like Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, The Staple Singers, Sam and Dave and many others, Southern soul was a pulsating, gritty soul music style propelled by a powerful horn section and driving rhythm section. The style brought to national attention in the United States music performed by some of the first racially integrated popular music groups, including the Mar-Keys and Booker T and the M.G.'s.
Key studios that produced Southern soul were Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, and several located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Soul music is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music originating in the late 1950s in the United States.
Soul music is differentiated from rhythm and blues by its use of gospel-music devices and its greater emphasis on vocalists.
Psychedelic soul was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music in the late-1960s, which paved the way for the mainstream emergence of funk music a few years later.
Soul was what you got when Brother Ray Charles changed the lyrics to an old gospel song he'd probably sung growing up in Florida and released it as "I Got A Woman" in 1954.
Soul was James Brown and the Famous Flames' "Please Please Please." It grew from the parentage of B.B. King and the Soul Stirrers, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Hank Williams.
Soul, to put it briefly, was feeling, the weight of history and hurt put in a time and place and pressed on vinyl.
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