Soul
8 albums
Whats Going On
A song cycle about Vietnam veterans, ecology, poverty and faith, initially rejected by executives who thought it too pol...
Songs in the Key of Life
A double album of overflowing invention: Sir Duke, I Wish, Pastime Paradise and Isnt She Lovely. It closed the classic r...
Otis Blue
Recorded in about 24 hours at Stax with Booker T and the MGs, Otis Blue covers Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke w...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Atlantic debut, recorded largely at Muscle Shoals, opens with her rearranged Respect, a civil rights and feminist...
Live at the Apollo
Brown bet his own 5,700 dollars on recording a night at the Apollo Theater against label wishes. The screaming audience ...
Superfly
The soundtrack outclassed its blaxploitation film, with Freddie Dead and Pusherman documenting drug trade damage instead...
Back to Black
Mark Ronson and the Dap Kings built a 1960s girl group wall of sound around Winehouse self written confession, led by Re...
Innervisions
Wonder played most of the instruments himself, building layered synthesizer textures with Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margo...