When the going gets tough, Aloe Blacc gets going

Redundancy, resourcefulness and the sound of sneezing have made Aloe Blacc the recession's soul voice of reason. Martin Horsfield buys inSoul music thrives in hard times. After the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the riots that led to a decade of inner-city blues, black businesses daubed Soul Power on their shutters to save their shops. It was a slogan picked up on by Brit kids dancing in the dark of the three-day week in our own soul revival, while the 80s downturn saw the seemingly sh...

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