Freddie King and Howard Tate are the Soul of Gospel and Blues
Kirk Silsbee, Pasadena Weekly, 16 February 2006
TOO OFTEN we're reminded that soul – the fundament of black gospel and blues—is fast slipping away from us. Losing Wilson Pickett and Lou Rawls in the same month was bad enough. But to see Sly Stone, missing in action for decades, give a feeble performance at the Grammys, was too much.
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