Hayes’s subsequent recordings like The Isaac Hayes Movement (1970), …To Be Continued (1970) and the double-album Black Moses (1971) marked Soul music as something that was vital, personal ...

Most music fans can identify Back To Black, the titular single from Amy Winehouse’s 2006 album, from the moment they hear the first line. Musically, it references the soul music of the sixties ...

Aretha Franklin’s 1967 version of Otis Redding’s Respect, and James Brown’s 1968 Say It Loud I’m Black And I’m Proud ... to the founding of soul music in the 1950s.

There’s a new soul band in town – and I gotta a good feelin’ bout it – as a soul-style lyric would say. As Nick Sampson says: ...