Artist	Song
Bobby Womack	Fire and Rain
from The Best of Bobby Womack - The Soul Years (2008)
Al Green	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from Call Me (1973)
King Curtis	Whole Lotta Love
from Live At the Fillmore West (2005)
Wilson Pickett	Sugar Sugar
from The Very Best of Wilson Pickett (2006)
Booker T. & The MG's	Groovin'
from The Best of Booker T & The MGs (2005)
The Meters	Wichita Lineman
from Struttin' (2005)
Diana Ross & The Supremes	A Hard Day's Night
from Diana Ross & The Supremes: Anthology (2001)
Bobby "Blue" Bland	Lookin' for Some Tush
from Memphis Monday Morning (1998)
Bill Withers	Everybody's Talkin'
from Just As I Am (2005)
Martha Reeves	Wild Night
from Martha Reeves (2005)
Major Harris	My Way
from My Way (2005)
Otis Clay	Wonderful Tonight
from A Valentines Gift of Love (2005)
Diana Ross, The Supremes & The Temptations	Can't Take My Eyes Off You
from Joined Together: The Complete Studio Duets (2004)
Ann Peebles	Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
from I Believe to My Soul (2005)
Ron Isley	Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
from Here I Am (2003)
Howard Tate	Girl of the North Country
from Howard Tate (2005)
Solomon Burke	I Got the Blues
from Make Do With What You Got (2005)
Johnnie Taylor	Take Me to the Mardi Gras
from There's No Good In Goodbye (2003)
James Brown	Your Cheatin' Heart
from Soul On Top (2004)
Booker T. & The MG's	Mrs. Robinson
from The Best of Booker T. & the MGs (2006)
Otis Redding	Day Tripper
from The Dictionary of Soul (2008)
Billy Paul	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
from Feelin' Good At the Cadillac Club (2007)
Solomon Burke	That's How I Got to Memphis
from Nashville (2006)
The Bar-Kays	Feelin' Alright
from Money Talks - EP (2006)
Etta James	Never My Love
from Love Songs (2001)

Comment:

Country music and soul have always been kissin' cousins — two sides of the same musical coin. That's why so many soul stirrers have thrown some honky-tonk tunes onto their sonic skillet, with sweet, savory results. Hank Williams gets on the good foot courtesy of Soul Brother Number One on James Brown's funkification of the honky-tonk weeper "Your Cheatin' Heart." The Right Reverend Al Green makes a stop at the Hank bank, too, depositing some slow-rollin' Memphis magic to make the heartache melt away on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Speaking of the River City, it takes the wisdom of Solomon (Burke, that is) to put the [i]more[/i] in mournful on Tom T. Hall's my-baby-left-me ballad "That's How I Got to Memphis," turning down the volume and turning up the soul-drenched sorrow.

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