Soul
Nice article on soul music and the President-Elect:
The daring fury in Chicago soul comes from the forthright nature of the city. “Our music was like a Band-Aid to make people feel better about what was going on,” Mavis Staples once told me. “We were getting requests to sing ‘We Shall Overcome.’ I never liked to sing that song. I felt ‘We Shall Overcome’ implied that we weren’t making it. Like we weren’t going forward. So we started with our own. ‘(March Up) Freedom’s Highway.’ ‘Touch a Hand, Make a Friend.’
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