Deep Soul

Deep Soul is a musical style of R&B; music, coined by Dave Godin. Like Southern Soul, Deep Soul is gritty, funky soul music that borrows equally from the hard-driving energy of R&B; and the fervor of Southern gospel. It is distinguished by a gospel-tinged singer, punchy horns, chicken-scratch guitars, and tight rhythm sections. In deep soul, the singer tends to have more prominent gospel music influences than those in Southern soul, but the m... more
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