Country soul

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Country soul is a music genre that fuses Southern soul music with country music. Ray Charles is often seen as being a pioneer of the style, and other country soul artists include Solomon Burke, Arthur Alexander and Mavis Staples.

[edit] References

• Barney Hoskyns, Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted: Country Soul In The American South (UK: Fontana, 1987; Bloomsbury reissue 1998).

[edit] External links

• Country soul at All Music Guide

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