Questions tagged [soul]

After recently exploring black American soul music of the 1970s, I found it very different than I expected. I started by listening to the album in which the song "Lean on Me" first appeared and was stunned by how ... abnormal everything seemed. It…

This is a more or less well known song, with famous versions, e.g. by Dolly Parton et al.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhNhDwlLyQ I have seen it credited to Mavis Staples, but I guess there is a previous version. Oddly enough it does not have a…