World Tour #15 - USA Southern Soul

peterjhyland
May 19
1 min read

SunNeverSetsOnMusic’s World Tour turns Stateside this month with a deep dive into USA Southern Soul - the living, breathing tradition that blends gospel, blues, R&B, funk, and country into something raw, resonant, and defiantly human. This music is forged in churches, juke joints, kitchen-table studios and front porches - a soul language passed from generation to generation and still evolving in the hands of today’s most urgent voices.

The Southern United States, stretching from the Mississippi Delta to the Appalachian foothills, from urban centers like Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans to rural backroads in Alabama, Louisiana, and North Carolina, remains the heartland of Black American musical innovation. It’s a region shaped by centuries of struggle, resilience, faith, and fierce creativity.

This month's playlist traces the roots and routes of Southern Soul as it continues to speak truth and stir hearts. From genre-defying futurists and seasoned torchbearers to boundary-pushing newcomers, the selected albums traverse blues revivalism, swamp pop, southern rock, folk-funk, and modern gospel with grit and grace.

Whether anchored in ancestral memory or charging toward reinvention, these records reaffirm the South as a cradle of American musical imagination - always grounded, always growing, always soul-deep.

Expect stories sung in full voice, and grooves you can’t shake.

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