The Soul Children - Finders Keepers

Suckers for good Southern soul know that the Soul Children always serve heaping helpings. Eventually reduced to a trio (they began recording for Stax Records as a quartet), they consisted of J. Blackfoot (John Colbert), Norman West, and Shelbra Bennett. Of the nine songs here, seven are stunners. For some reason, the two weakest cuts are the first two, which should have been the last two songs on the album. The strongest of the mighty includes "Midnight Sunshine," a chiller led by Blackfoot about creeping on another man's woman around midnight, but avoiding each other in the daylight -- deep soul magic. Read More