Casey Kasem's Rock n' Roll Goldmine - The Soul Years

Amazon.com Easily the best of the five discs packaged together in host Casey Kasem's Rock n' Roll Goldmine Boxed Set, The Soul Years features riveting performances by some of immortal black musicians who helped define the decade of the 1960s. Taking nothing away from their rock & roll contemporaries, the fact is that many of the soul and R&B artists of that era (along with their musicians, producers, and songwriters) were more experienced, more professional, and simply more entertaining than their rock counterparts. The live turns by the likes of Aretha Franklin (a febrile "Respect"), Otis Redding ("Try a Little Tenderness," recorded not long before his death in a '67 plane crash), Ike and Tina Turner ("River Deep, Mountain High"), and James Brown (check out the Godfather of Soul's dancing on "I Feel Good"), among others, are galvanizing and charismatic. Even lip-synced numbers by (Little) Stevie Wonder and the Temptations have their charm, as do some brief interview excerpts (Brown in the early '80s: "I'm 54 now... hope I don't look it... but I feel good!"). At 42 minutes, there isn't enough of this stuff--but what there is is great. --Sam Graham Product Description Featuring: James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner.