The first Country Got Soul CD (never available on vinyl) was released in 2003 on the London Casual Records label. The second volume a year later. Also in 2004, the Country Soul Revue CD was released, which presented new studio recordings by the artists who were still active at the time.
The story of Country Got Soul began in the late 1960s in Muscle Shoals, a small town in Alabama, where a certain Rick Hall founded Fame Studio, where black and white musicians recorded hits together. Which wasn't easy in Alabama at the time because of racial segregation. rick Hall's studio band, four seasoned men called the Swampers, struck out on their own in 1969 and founded Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. And that was kind of the birthplace of this kind of music, where white musicians were making black music. “Our skin is white, but our soul is black!”
Some artists represented here belonged to the studio's inner circle such as Dan Penn, Travis Wammack, Donnie Fritts and George Soule. Others at least recorded their records in Muscle Shoals, and a few didn't have much to do with Alabama (like Jim Ford) but fit the mold perfectly.
Here is what you get:
6 x CD-R in a big jewel box that holds 6 discs. A covercard for each CD with Tracklisting.
Plus
Country Got Soul - Vol. 1
The original first volume compiled by Jeb Loy Nichols.Out of print for a long time and even the second hand CDs are becoming rare.
Country Got Soul - Vol. 2
Also compiled by Jeb Loy and even rarer than Vol. 1..
Country Got Soul - Vol. 3
Parts of what was supposed to be volume 3 (but never materialized). The others come from Love Rustler's selection. Tracklisting is different from the tin box that was done ages ago.
Country Got Soul - Vol. 4
Again tracks selected by the Love Rustler fitting the CountrySoul/Funk genre. All of them are spread over various Keep On Chooglin' CDs, but here put together with one particular sound in mind..
Country Got Soul - Vol. 5
15 more Country-Soul-Funk tracks compiled by the Love Rustler.
Country Got Soul - Vol. 6
Yet another 15 Country-Soul-Funk tracks compiled by the Love Rustler.
