Latimore

[Heikki]

Hi!

 

My complete Latimore story is now available as part of my report on the great Porretta Soul Festival at

https://www.soulexpress.net/deep4_2013.htm

 

There's also the question: shall we call it "soul-blues" or "southern soul" at the end of the column.

 

Best regards

Heikki

[Guest Dave Turner]

Soul-Blues or Southern Soul ... erm, hard to describe. How about as David Whiteis named his book "Southern Soul-Blues"  

 

Latimore is such a superb artist, just oozes quality

 

Enjoy very much your site and articles on the more Southern & Deep side of soul ... wonderful stuff

 

[Heikki]

Hi Dave!

 

... and thank you for your kind words.

I think "Soul-Blues" is the most common word nowadays in those circles, so I guess we have to settle for it... but not forgetting "southern Soul", which is a broader term, including older material, too.  Some seem to mix "Deep Soul" and "Soul-Blues", but there's a difference.  All those "hoochie" dancers are as far from Deep or Hard as it can get.

 

Best regards

Heikki

[boba]

I've never heard the term "soul blues". All I know is that the DJ on my radio station Arkansas Red who plays "blues" completely despises "Southern Soul" despite other people calling a lot of his music that and despite him listening to "soul" in the '70s.

[Sunnysoul]

I've never heard the term "soul blues". All I know is that the DJ on my radio station Arkansas Red who plays "blues" completely despises "Southern Soul" despite other people calling a lot of his music that and despite him listening to "soul" in the '70s.

 

 

Remember reading a Johnny Copeland interview where he chastised the interviewer for calling Johnny a "soul" singer ... Johnny thought that was an insult to a true blues man.

[Heikki]

Hi!

 

I remember when talking to Denise LaSalle a few years ago she said that "this music today is called soul-blues down here."  She didn't like the term "blues" being used to describe today's indie material, released on Malaco, Ecko, CDS and such.

It's interesting, if in Arkansas they don't know the term, where does the geographical line go?  Where is exactly "down here"? 

 

Best regards

Heikki

[Heikki]

Hi!

 

I found the interview in question.  Actually it was conducted already in 2007.

I remembered slightly wrong.  Her opinion on this issue is expressed in two last paragraphs

 

https://www.soulexpress.net/deep207.htm#deniselasalle

 

Best regards

Heikki

[Guest Dave Turner]

I've never heard the term "soul blues". All I know is that the DJ on my radio station Arkansas Red who plays "blues" completely despises "Southern Soul" despite other people calling a lot of his music that and despite him listening to "soul" in the '70s.

 

Bob, to my mind unfortunately the term "Southern Soul" no longer means what it used to mean ie as in this Wiki link

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_soul

 

I listen to nowadays "Southern Soul" and I hear what to me is a load of computerised crap. If that's what Arkansas Red despises then I can see his point as apart from a few exceptions it does nothing for me either. I really wish they'd call it something else. Shame really as there are some really talented voices let down by the crap electronic backing. Now if he means the stuff as outlined in the Wiki link then I really can't agree with him. Like the term R&B the term has been bastardised, and even "Deep Soul" to some extent.

[Peter99]

Hi!

 

My complete Latimore story is now available as part of my report on the great Porretta Soul Festival at

https://www.soulexpress.net/deep4_2013.htm

 

There's also the question: shall we call it "soul-blues" or "southern soul" at the end of the column.

 

Best regards

Heikki

Hi Heikki

 

Good to hear from you Sir. Just call it Soul Music and be done with it!

 

Another very interesting contribution - thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge.

 

Cheers buddy.

 

Peter

[Heikki]

Hi Dave!

 

You're quite right in the fact that those "all-instruments keys" have ruined a lot of the listening pleasure, behind a lot of great voices.  Luckily, more and more authentic music is created lately, wittness Barbara Carr, Latimore (80 %), Otis Clay, Tasha Taylor...  I hope we're heading in the right direction, but there's always the money factor.  If Ecko's John Ward says that those indie SS CD's sell approximately 3,000 pieces, the shoestring budget is understandable; from the business point of view, not music. 

 

Hi Peter!  That's a good suggestion, but sometimes I'd like to define it a bit more :-).

 

Best regards

Heikki