Various: True Soul Volume 2 – review

(Now Again)Founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1968, the True Soul label sought to stand alongside Stax and Motown and make national stars of its local musicians. Its failure to do so had nothing to do with a lack of dedication on the part of its proprietor, Lee Anthony, who wholeheartedly sacrificed his money, time and personal life to the project, but with the lack of a singer on a par with Otis Redding or Smokey Robinson. That absence glares from this lovingly assembled compilation, but thes...

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