country got soul

Soul Jazz is a music-loving label that specializes in generous, handsome, multi-artist reissues, often focusing on a particularly label or style. The 2012 compilation Soul Jazz Records Presents Country Soul Sisters: Women in Country Music 1952-1974 doesn’t zero in on a sound, style, or imprint.
Rather, it presents a concept — female country singers who would occasionally dabbled in soul.
A good idea, but it’s not one that’s executed especiall y well, as the earliest music here pre- dates soul and doesn’t have much to do with R&B, either. Patsy Cline jumps a bit on Ain’t No Wheels on This Ship but Kitty Wells never sounded soulful, particularly not when she sang the hardcore honky tonk of It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk…
**thanks to Neil**