I don’t have much to say this week, so I’ll tell you what I’ve been listening to lately: Channel 60 on XM. Soul Town. Every time I put it on, I forget why it was I changed it. In particular, I dug this track I heard yesterday as me and the family were leaving HEB:
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (Featuring Sharon Paige) – “Hope That We Can Be Together Soon”
Soul Town plays classic R&B / Soul music all day without commercial interruption. Here’s the XM radio description:
Soul Town offers the best in Classic Soul from the 60′s and early 70′s! From Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye to James Brown and The Supremes, Soul Town is the home for vintage R&B. For your favorite oldies, and the legends who created them, it’s Soul Town.
Despite this description, most of the stuff that gets played isn’t something you’d hear on a conventional oldies station. It’s more stuff like this:
Bobby Womack – "I Can Understand It"
A hit on the R & B charts, sure. It was the lead track on Womack’s classic Understanding. But it’s not something you can hear on terrestrial radio. I suppose you could title this post "Marshall rediscovers what’s great about satellite radio in general: deep cuts with no commercials." And that would be true. But it was nice to drive around this morning and listen to The Temptations’ Otis Williams introduce songs and tell personal stories about his friends. So yeah. That’s what I’m listening to right now.
Well worth the $130 per year.
