This week in the Shack

Apparently, when one spends part of the day reading about the LAPD and the Watts and Rodney King riots, one ends up putting together a somewhat grim set of soul music afterwards.

1. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
2. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (3:06)
3. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
4. Solange Knowles - Ode to Marvin (3:15)
5. Mayer Hawthorne - The Ills (2:49)
6. Eric Burdon; War - Spill the Wine (4:52)
7. Booker T. Jones - She Breaks (4:22)
8. Sly & the Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies (3:39)
9. The Whitefield Brothers - Prowlin' (5:57)
10. Darondo - Let My People Go (3:58)
11. Isaac Hayes - Early Sunday Morning (3:46)
12. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out (4:47)
13. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (3:05)
14. Esther Phillips - Home Is Where the Hatred Is (3:27)
15. Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - H2Ogate Blues (8:13)
16. Billy Preston - Ferry Across the Mersey (2:49)
17. The Lost Generation - This Is the Lost Generation (3:34)
18. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
19. Pat Wright - Jesus Christ Pose (3:32)
20. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight (3:31)
21. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
22. Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left Handed (6:43)
23. Bettye LaVette - Talking Old Soldiers (4:25)
24. Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle (5:10)
25. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (7:25)
26. Doris Duke - To the Other Woman (I'm the Other Woman) (2:59)
27. Isaac Hayes - Soulsville (4:37)
28. Billy Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones (4:46)
29. Joan Osborne - War (5:50)
30. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Shoot'n up and Gett'n High (4:13)
31. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (3:37)
32. Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild (5:26)
33. War - The World Is a Ghetto (10:17)
34. Calvin Law - Fools Gold (5:18)
35. JJ Grey & Mofro - Everything Good Is Bad (3:40)
36. Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (3:12)
37. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
38. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (3:52)
39. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)

(soul 21)