If you’re lucky (and you are not among the heretics people who have totally abandoned radio), there’s a “souldies” station in your market. Pronounced so that it rhymes with “oldies”, it’s a format name I made up back when Denver had a classic soul station and damn, I still miss it. But the ownership of the station, as is so often the case in radio, built a loyal listener and advertiser base — thank you, Tower Liquors — but didn’t get high enough ratings (in a heavily saturated market) to satisfy some out-of-town suit, so they applied the Genghis Kahn Approach to Radio Programming and pulled the plug and flipped the format to country. Believe me when I say Denver needed another country station like Detroit needs another abandoned building.
In honor of tonight’s VH-1 Soul Train documentary and also because Lester made some good finds the other night that got me to missing this amazing music all over again, I’ll share a few with you over a series of posts, like I did with the one-hit-wonders last year.
First up: Tower of Power!
Here’s wishing you all peace, love — and SOUL!
Tags: classic soul, Denver, Detroit, Don Cornelius, radio, soul music, Soul Train, Tower of Power
That’s an awful lotta soul, for a white dude
You mean me, Tony, or one of the horn players?
OMG ! Tower of Power ! PRICELESS !
In my feeble musicology: Chicago (all time fave), Blood, Sweat & Tears, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Jack Mack & the Heart Attack, Traffic, Miles Davis, Gato Barbieri, Santana, John Klemmer, Spyro Gyra, Al Jarreau, Weather Report, HORNS, JAZZ AND LOVE !!! I’m sure there are some I’ve left out, but I love these all
Big fan of the horns here too, tcd. Earth, Wind & Fire will be on this menu too, count on it.