This week in the Shack

It's been a month or so since I put together a soul set. This one's a laid-back mix of newer retro-soul and seventies stuff (and a few surprises), inspired by driving through Austin late at night last weekend in the rain, with Donny Hathaway and Corinne Bailey Rae coming through the stereo back-to-back. I've been listening to a lot of intense blues ever since Austin Blues Party, and I think this makes a much-needed change of tone.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
2. Miles Davis - So What (9:25)
3. Corinne Bailey Rae - Till It Happens to You (4:38)
4. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
5. Sade - Your Love Is King (3:42)
6. Donny Hathaway - What's Going On (5:22)
7. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)
8. Curtis Mayfield - Blue Monday People (LP Version) (4:48)
9. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
10. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
11. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
12. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love feat. Lee Fields (5:47)
13. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine [Live] (2:32)
14. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
15. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
16. Earth, Wind & Fire - All About Love (5:29)
17. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now (3:25)
18. Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free [#] (5:29)
19. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (3:59)
20. Kool & the Gang - Misled (5:01)
21. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
22. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Blues Downtown (5:13)
23. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
24. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
25. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
26. Curtis Mayfield - So In Love (LP Version) (5:14)
27. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
28. Marvin Gaye - Turn on Some Music (5:07)
29. Joan Osborne - War (5:50)
30. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Humble Me (4:05)
31. Aretha Franklin - People Get Ready (3:44)
32. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Yesterday I Had the Blues (7:31)
33. Donny Hathaway - Superwoman [#] (6:42)
34. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
35. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
36. Bettye Lavette - Salt On My Wounds (4:39)
37. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
38. Aretha Franklin - Share Your Love with Me [*] (4:28)
39. Dusty Springfield - Make It With You (3:13)
40. Joan Osborne - Smiling Faces Sometimes (4:45)

(soul 6)