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Featured:  Featured item on homepage Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter  Laura Jane ( www.laurajanemusic.net )  has turned quite a few heads with her eclectic, powerful brand of soul music. She certainly won us over when we first heard her album  Everything Changes  last year . read more ...

Featured:  Not featured SoulTrackers like young singer Cleveland P. Jones so much that they voted him New Artist of the Year for 2013.  And we are always looking forward to hearing his voice again. Well, Daniel Crawford features Cleveland in the beautiful, yet poignant second single, " Home (Africa)"  from his upcoming album, The Awakening . . read more ...

Featured:  Not featured Betty Wright has been constantly recording good music since her debut album in 1968. She is nicknamed the, "Clean Up Woman" after her 1971 US #2 R&B Soul anthem. It's hard to believe that Betty Wright was only 17 when her signature song, was first released. With her 1972 American hit, "Baby Sitter," she showed off her powerful whistle register vocals and once read...

Donnie McClurkin made some of the most memorable and best loved gospel songs of the last 15 years. Tunes such as “Stand” and “We Fall Down” continue to be played in part because of McClurkin’s powerful and passionate vocals and because listeners relate to the themes of spiritual and personal restoration heard in the lyrics.  So McClurkin could easily release another album with the focus on his...

Everything about French soul singer Loretta is vintage. With a wardrobe straight out of Mad Men and imaging ready for a Douglas Sirk film, Loretta clearly has a penchant for the bygone days of torpedo bras, pencil skirts, and liquid lunches. She also has a knack for capturing the sweet soulful essence of different eras of Black American Music without going hardcore retro ‘60s soul with it in the way...

The first thought that entered my mind when I listened to Spiritual Tapestry, the latest project by jazz, R&B, classical and gospel vocalist Gabrielle Goodman, was the timelessness of these songs that were created by bonded men and women whose names have been lost to history. We have been singing “Motherless Child,” “Swing Low,” “Steal Away,” “Heaven Heaven” and the others songs on this album...

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Rajdulari came by her love of jazz and jazz singing naturally. The Michigan native remembers watching her mother prepare for her role in productions of the musical revue “Bubbling Brown Sugar.” That Tony Award nominated play was  a homage to Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller and the other crafters of Harlem Renaissance era jazz, and Rajdulari’s mom played Billie Holiday. read more ...

Featured:  Not featured New York, NY – On March 29, 2014 at 5pm, The Indie Soul Mixer will bring artists from all over the world to Silvana in New York City to celebrate soul music.  The annual event launched in 2005 when founders Mike Ashley and Dexter Myers sought to get soul music artists and industry professionals in the same room to share ideas and experiences.  The event...

Featured:  Not featured Will Downing is one of the all-time SoulTracks favorites. He was the winner of our 2011  Lifetime Achievement Award  and our 2012 and 2013  Song of the Year  awards for "Blessing" and "You Were Meant Just For Me." Click below to pre-order  Euphoria   at Amazon.com Pre-order CD Pre-order mp3 album . read more ...

Featured:  Not featured “I sing because I must. I am compelled from within - the force sometimes ebbing…often flowing…the rhythm of it all out of my hands.  I follow where it leads; it is an essential part of my being.” Click below to listen to or purchase for just $8.99 at Amazon.com Click below to listen to or purchase for just $9.99 at iTunes   . read more ...

Featured:  Featured item on homepage (February 28, 2014) Longtime SoulTrackers know that the Chi-Lites are among our all-time favorite groups. So we're particularly distressed to give two pieces of bad news today. read more ...

We at SoulTracks love us some lists. That’s actually a weakness that afflicts all of us media types – especially in the Internet age. We love lists because you the consumer love them. We at SoulTracks give the people what they want, so our visitors can find lists of greatest songs, albums, slow jams, and disco and gospel songs for the last five decades. The writers compile personal year-end lists...

Featured:  Not featured "Now and Then With Justin Kantor" is a new SoulTracks feature where we have an in depth conversation with a classic soul star about his or her career, including what's happening now. Noted soul music writer Justin Kantor is our guide bringing SoulTrackers up to date on their favorite stars. read more ...

Featured:  Not featured Platinum-selling South African singer/model/actress Lira has already conquered South Africa and much of Europe with her irresistible blend of R & B, Jazz and African styles. Like Sade before her, she is now set to conquer America with the release of her debut U.S. single "Feel Good" and her debut U.S. album release  Rise Again , due out in April on Shanachie Entertainment....

Featured:  Not featured Floyd Taylo r, the son of the legendary Johnny Taylor and a noted blues singer in his own right, has died of a heart attack at age 60. Taylor, who was born in Chicago as Floyd Singletary, began singing in church as a toddler. When he reached is 20s, Floyd joined his famous father on stage regularly, serving as a background singer and sometimes as a duet partner. ...

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ve been big fans of Tomas Doncker and his True Groove Records family for quite awhile. And Thomas has brought together some of his label's best, to record a rousing rendition of Curtis Mayfield's classic "We...