Internationally known stars from the world of Black music such as Public Enemy, Mandrill, and Chico Hamilton. Fifty year plus industry veterans and Rock n' Roll Hall of Famers such as the Mighty Dells and the Coasters. Rock, Funk & Soul pioneers like Lester Chambers (Chambers Brothers), Joseph Wooten/JD Blair (Wooten Brothers Band), Mike Calhoun (Dazz Band), Waldo Weathers (James Brown's Soul Generals), Scott Free (Original P-Funk & Bo Diddley) and Cliff Perkins (Soul Generation).
Plus a host of independent/emerging artists join forces with Black music/culture portal Soul-Patrol.com (http://www.soul-patrol.com/album) community
- Play it on your computer, your iPod, your mp3 capable CD player, or convert files to standard CD format
- A 30+ page book of liner notes containing instructions, biographies of each artist, analysis & commentary (see attached)
- No African-American owned entity has ever created or developed a technological/cultural album launch with this range, this number of artists, and this amount of high quality music
--Rock n' Roll Hall of Famers, the Dells say; "Independent artist and labels, were always the heart and soul of the music industry..."
"Simply because: The labels had to have young creative artist to keep their doors opened. Once these artist reached a certain level of popularity, then the "Big Boys" took over with their
massive distribution, although they still couldn't create great music. Now we have to start over, because while the industry was spoon-feeding us all this BS, we've lost song writers,
arrangers, musicians and producers. The recording industry is in deep trouble, because they aren't recording anything that you really want to buy..."
--Stax Museum of American Soul CEO Deene Parker says; "This is really a fresh approach to packaging and distributing new music."
This is a bold move to mix the music made by great legends with songs recorded by some relatively new kids. This is an 'insidious' move to introduce 'old school' fans (like me) to other
music genres like RAP in the privacy of our own space. For many people, there's yet another bonus. It's called learning how to navigate expertly through a digital maze. Sigh. Thanks for
doing what radio won't and the majors don't.
Bob Davis - Soul-Patrol
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