But, in America, you don't get to be both a straight soul-searcher like James and a sequinned shouter like Bassey, whom we love more for her style than for her pain.
Rather than straight retro soul, however, it's the other territories Harding treads that best illustrate his voice and songcraft.
Like a sleeping stream, Come rain or sullen shine I'm peaceable.' Stretched to the horizon, placid ploughland, The sky not truly bright or overcast: I know that clay, the damp and dirt of it, The coolth along the bank, the grassy zest Of verges, the path not narrow but still straight Where soul could mind itself or stray beyond.
Christopher Smart, as Browning's poem continued, :pierced the screen :'Twixt thing and word, lit language straight from soul, — Left no fine film-flake on the naked coal Live from the censer Browning's remarks brought about a later appreciation of A Song to David and Smart's madness.
He remains a giant of the genre, a much-revered master of straight-ahead soul singing.
In Memphis, Tennessee, Stax/Volt Records was built on an unshakable foundation of straight-up soul.
Solange dug even further back for "T.O.N.Y.," from 2008, a straight-ahead soul single about a side guy disrupting a steady relationship.
The original Winehouse composition "Wake Up Alone" starts as a fairly straight sixties-soul slow jam, but the last minute of the song is a stunning, diaphanous thing, unmoored from a sound or decade, just Winehouse and her voice drifting away from genre and logic.
Two years before that TV appearance, you certainly wouldn't have picked Sly and the Family Stone as harbingers of a psychedelic musical revolution on the basis of its surprisingly straight-laced soul or, indeed, the photo of them on the cover, which features saxophonist Jerry Martini wearing socks and sandals.
As if anything else could be expected from the Soul People Music boss often known as Black Jazz Consortium, Fred came correct with a seamless hour of elegant and straight-up soul invading vibes.
(Chinen) Dave Stryker (Friday and Saturday) The guitarist Dave Stryker has made a subspecialty out of soulful hard-bop, with the occasional detour into straight funk and soul.
