Sweet Soul Music: Voices From The Shadows
Inspired by Peter Guralnick's great bookSweet Soul Music, this 15-track CD collects obscure singles and album cuts by artists both well-known (Aretha Franklin's cover of theJohnny Aceballad "My Song") and lost to the ages (the Invincibles' sweet-soul "Heart Full of Love," the gospel-drenched "Crying in the Streets" by George Perkins and the Silver Stars). As consistent as any such set,Sweet Soul Musicis a disc that anyone who cares about the genre will listen to hundreds of times with no drop in fascination.--Rickey Wright