Description
This CD brings together some of the most enduring voices in soul music across three defining decades, offering a carefully curated journey through the genre’s warmest and most emotional corners. Bill Withers’ uplifting ‘Lean On Me’ sits alongside the smooth sophistication of Gregory Abbott’s ‘Shake You Down’ and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes’ devastating ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’ — a song that remains one of Philadelphia soul’s crowning achievements. The Isley Brothers, Natalie Cole, Peabo Bryson, and Lou Rawls round out a lineup that reads like a who’s who of classic soul balladry. An ideal disc for fans of the genre and a testament to soul music’s unmatched capacity for heartfelt expression…
- Wind Beneath My Wings – Lou Rawls
- You Don’t Have To Say You’re Sorry – Patty Austink
- Shake You Down – Gregory Abbott
- How Can You Stop – Natalie Cole
- Shower You With Love – Peabo Bryson
- Just The Lonely Talking Again – The Manhattans
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight – The Isley Brothers
- Lean On Me – Bill Withers
- Daybreak (Storybook Children) – Cheryl Lynn
- If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes
