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who played in Sergio Mendes’ original seminal bossa nova group Brasil 65 (during which time she married the artist Edu Lobo) and legendary saxophone / flautist Teco Cardoso

joined in places by David Ferguson on stand-up bass

southern soul picked up musical cues and absorbed influences from a whole variety of sources: horn lines from Louisiana’s swamp pop

Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots for answers

Various - Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label Available On:2LP with the album opening withåÊMrFrom 1967 1980, Kansas Citys Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement beehiver y from The Ray Ons and Four Darlings, funky soul from Gene Williams Lee Harris, Louis Chachere, and The Fantastiks, downtempo disco ballads from James Whitney and Sharon Revoal, and the newly independent work of James Browns former Soul Sister #1 Marva Whitney. Compiled here are 28 of the labels enduring sides, contextualized with