How soul music can save your life in the age of virus

In these difficult times, when everything seems uncertain, when everything that was known changes and it is not known if it will return as before, it is easy to give in to despair. Every step you take, as well as every attitude you decide to take, is a choice. You can cry and despair, complain and get angry or you can take the opportunity to review some things in your life, question certainties, try to understand which life you want to return to after the storm has passed.
House arrest can be an opportunity to rediscover the beauty of your relationships, to get closer, if you have moved away, to rediscover the actual value of what you might have taken for granted.

I think the best soundtrack for these troubled days is offered by Soul music. A music that speaks of victories and defeats, joys and sorrows, perdition and redemption. The only music that has been able to tell what love really is. Not that sweet and eternal thing of pop songs, but that intense and deep feeling that one day ends up giving way to new discoveries and new joys.

The perfect metaphor for these days.

Like everything else, this tribulation will also end. As you try to spend some time with your loved one, listen to this mixtape together and choose to think well and remember that the Osama Bin Laden's Band has pulled down two buildings in the city center, but it is the American state that, with the "Patriot's Act "has deprived its citizens of several civil rights.






01 Vivian Reed - The Shape Of Things To Come
02 Betty Wright - Circle Of Heartbreak
03 O.V.Wright - A Nickel And A Nail
04 Bobby Blue Bland - Yield Not To Temptation
05 James Carr - Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
06 Sam Cooke - (Ain't That) Good News
07 Big Ella - The Queen
08 Erma Franklin - Change My Thoughts From You
09 Laura Lee - Dirty man
10 Maxine Brown - Secret Of Livin'
11 Brenda Holloway - all i do is think about you
12 Arthur Alexander - Stay By Me
13 Cheryl Johnson - It's Not Too Late
14 Barbara Trent - Heartbreak Hotel
15 Etta James - Tell Mama
16 Ike & Tina Turner - I Idolize You
17 Garnet Mimms - Cry Baby
18 Solomon Burke - Won't You Give Him
19 Freddie Scott - Let It Be Me
20 Bobby Hebb - Sunny
21 Esther Phillips - A Taste Of Honey
22 Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side
23 Johnnie Taylor - You Can't Get Away From It
24 Marie Queenie Lyons - I Want My Freedom  
25 Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to run
26 Sam & Dave - You don t know like i know
27 Johnnie Taylor - Just The One (I've Been Looking For)
28 Betty Wright - I Can't Stop My Heart
29 Inez & Charlie Foxx - baby take it all
30 Aretha Franklin - Think
31 Bettye Lavette - Piece Of My Heart
32 Otis Redding - Try a little tenderness
33 Ray Charles -Hard Times
34 Howard Tate - Get It While You Can
35 Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz
36 Freddie Scott - Open Up The Door To Your Heart
37 James Carr -The Dark End of the Street
38 Little Johnny Taylor - Somebody's Got to Pay
39 O.V.Wright - I Can't Take It
40 Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools
41 Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts
42 Joe Tex – Show Me
43 Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
44 Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson - Pure Love And Pleasure
45 Laura Lee - It's mighty hard
46 Ike and Tina Turner -Stormy Weather  
47 Ray Charles -I Believe To My Soul
48 Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
49 Jeanne & The Darlings - Hang Me Now
50 Wilson Pickett - Mustang sally
51 Vivian Reed - Walk On My Side
52 O.V.Wright - Poor Boy
53 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Tarrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
54 Johnnie Taylor - Take Care of Your Homework
55 Erma Franklin - You've Been Cancelled
56 Smokey Robinson & the miracles - Going To A Go-Go
57 Solomon Burke -Proud Mary
58 Sam Cooke - I'll Come Running Back To You
59 Irma Thomas - Hittin' On Nothin'
60 Ollie & The Nightingales - I Got A Sure Thing
61 Laura Lee - it's how you make it good
62 Irma Thomas - While The City Sleeps63 Arthur Alexander - Where have you been
64 William Bell - You Don't Miss Your Water
65 Sam Cooke - Cupid
66 Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
67 Otis Redding - Mr Pitiful
68 Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody
69 Rufus Thomas - Walkin' The Dog
70 Esther Phillips - If You Love Me, Really Love Me


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