Trouble in Mind - the Soul Stirrers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RUL9yS4xQQ It annoys me, that many of the Youtube and collected Vinyl listings attribute songs to Sam...
Touch the Hem of His Garment - the Soul Stirrers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKADAdCwpYI Back to the roots - the original Souls Stirrers featuring you know who. The dentists' song. If...
Crawled Out Of The Sea - Laura Marling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9bJ5qmxWg&feature=kp One minute sixteen seconds of compressed Orbisonesque compassion. A statement of...
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0CnjXqCLE Perhaps the song that took the longest time to compose ever – Bob Dylan did the chorus and...
Shanghai Cigarettes - Caitlin Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHYYUZqX1A Simply a great song. "Here we go again, with the long goodbye, Cause you let the smoke get in...
Carol Brown - Flight of the Conchords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGoDns8wTA Carol Brown took a bus out of town - divergence for the weekend. This isn't soul, but still...
Heaven Must Have Sent You - the Elgins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6yPqcZXCY Surely the best opening line in pop I've cried so many endless nights just holding my...
Your Promise to be Mine - the Drifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQu_AMf6ics Bubba Thrasher's finest hour! The Drifters again, this time just two years later in 1956....
Whatcha Gonna Do - the Drifters
A lot of people think the Drifters began in 1959 with the classic "There goes my Baby", Ben E King's first lead vocal with them. But...
Stand By Me - Playing for Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM Buskers of the world unite. I normally would never countenance a new version of such a...