R&B / Soul

Influenced by gospel and blues, soul music is soulful—deeply personal  and very, very vocal. No, not vocal like your mother-in-law—vocal like a Baptist preacher on Sunday morning with a choir and a horn section putting exclamation points on every “Can I get an amen?!” Soul is tons of voices with extraordinary range, lots of notes over very few syllables, and call and response wherever possible. And R&B—it’s not JUST rhythm; it’s not JUST blues. It’s both, together—longing with a groove. A lament with a killer bass line. Want that makes you wont to dance. Is that a five-string bass you hear? No, that’s a fat fretless six-string grounding those high range synth leads and sax solos!