REVIEW: The revelatory new box set 'Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos' will make you rethink the history of one of America’s most important record labels, and the story of soul music itself.
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and the Staple Singers was the more authentic , counterpart to the pop-oriented Motown; a rare space of multiracial utopia in a segregated Sixties South; a locus, for Blacks in Memphis at the time, for the expressions and dreams of a better American future that lost its way in 1968 when those dreams vanished with the assassination of MLK. Or so the story goes.
a revelatory new 146-song set of previously unreleased demos from a crop of its many unheralded songwriters. That story is of a record label providing an ongoing space, creative ecosystem and infrastructure for some of the most profound popular American songwriting of the 20th century, much of which, as this collection demonstrates, the listening public has never even heard.
Hearing rough takes on established classics like the Staples Singers’ “Respect Yourself” and Wilson Pickett’s “634-5789 ” brings plenty of fresh insights. It comes as some surprise that Bettye Crutcher’s raw take of her “There Is A God,” for example, may have even more jump in its step than the 1974 Staple classic. an essential piece of music history. Some of them show a label influenced by and responsive to the pop marketplace .
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