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Stacked with soul: Soulmen were spreading the word about Memphis

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[26.Aug.08] :. In the 1960s, three record labels were most responsible for soul music not only undermining and finally eradicating the racial barriers entrenched at AM radio but turning it into the sound of young...

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Fabled soul-music label gets 50th anniversary relaunch

by Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[30.Jul.07] :. By the time Otis Redding gets to the first “you-oooo” in “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now),” you know it’s there. You can feel it anytime those first...

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Stax Records turns 50, looks to a soulful future

by Nick Cristiano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. In the 1997 book Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, author Rob Bowman called the storied Memphis soul label a “grand accident.” Now the “accident” that...

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