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Have you ever read Peter Guralnick's book "Sweet Soul Music"? Fantastic read

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Neither of them is singing-- they're both lip-syncing to a recording of ONLY Sam Cooke singing, and they appear to be drunk and about to bust up laughing at any moment. It seems like Sam and Jackie were drinking and Sam was like "I have? to go on this silly show and lip sync to my song... wanna make it a "duet" and mess with the audience? We can dance around too. "

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Taking the form of a letter to his baby, "Hymn No. 5" opens with Hannibal's mighty belting voice but soon moves into the claustrophobic clunking of a tambourine complemented by a haunting organ, giving the song the feel of a feverish nightmare.

"Hymn No. 5" doesn't spare the listener, it pulls you into the fear and feeling of senselessness that the soldiers in Vietnam must have felt. "Tell my father" Hannibal pleads, "I'm way over here in these trenches covered with blood" he moans, baring naked the horrors of war. "There's no tomorrow" continues the song in harmonic desperation taking us in to moaning that seems to be somewhere between pain and hopelessness, while remembering he has a family and a home far from that Godforsaken jungle in Vietnam.

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Compared to the polished, pop-influenced soul music produced by its main rival, Detroit-based Motown Records, Stax delivered distinctly Southern soul music that drew upon significant influences from the blues, country music, and especially gospel. This “Stax sound” later became a major influence on the grooving rhythms of funk music in the 1970s.

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Never even heard of Stax... Great read though, I always thought that was Motown, which happens to be some of my favorite stuff... Thanks for the Stax article

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The amazing Funk Brothers, the Motown group that played on almost every one of the classic hits from the label during the 1960's, will get a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on March 21.

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The Funk Brothers, in effect, had more hits than any other artist during the 60's and early 70's with the number of songs on which they played. While the casual music fan was not familiar with the name, their popularity began to skyrocket after the releases of the superb documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown from 2002.

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