Slept on Soul

Slept on Soul/Digable Planets Blowout Comb by Michael A. Gonzales In 1994, the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn was a completely different world than the one that currently exists in…

Slept on Soul/André Cymone – Survivin’ In The 80’s (Columbia Records) By Michael A. Gonzales In his personal and professional life, singer/songwriter and former Prince bassist André Cymone has always…

Ladybug Mecca/Slept On Soul Trip the Light Fantastic/Nu Paradigm (2005) By Michael A. Gonzales Ever since Mary Ann Vieira was a kid growing-up in Silver Spring, Maryland, freedom in life…

Slept on Soul/Corey Glover – Hymns (LaFace Records) By Michael A. Gonzales It was February, 1987 when I first heard the voice of singer Corey Glover beautifully screeching into a microphone…

Slept on Soul/The Veldt – Afrodisiac LP By Michael A. Gonzales Twin brothers Daniel and Danny Chavis, who co-founded their rock band the Veldt in 1987, have shared their varied…

Slept on Soul/Randy & The Gypsys By Michael A. Gonzales As the last born brother born into the Jackson family, Randy began his musical career playing catch-up to the towering…

By Michael A. Gonzales | @gonzomike We are taught from a young age to “never judge a book by its cover,” but that was exactly what I did in 2001 when copies of…

Every couple of years some former fan-turned-journalist comes along to rattle the fame cage of singer/songwriter/producer Sananda Francesco Maitreya, the man who used to be called Terence Trent D’Arby. In…

Singer/songwriter Shara Nelson, who began her career as the first female vocalist to be down with electro-dub b-boys Massive Attack on the Bristol posse’s masterful 1991 debut album Blue Lines,…

Marvin Gaye has served as the coked-out patron saint for countless soul men who rightfully hear in his voice and music something sonically special and painfully honest. In his nearly…

It was the winter of 1996 and Tony! Toni! Toné! was on the verge of falling apart. A few months before, as the group was set to release their best,…

Even before Prince earned a vanity label from his slavemasters at Warner Brothers Records, he was already delivering wonderful funk and dance albums for his so-called protégés The Time, Vanity…

Dolled-up like a Phil Spector creation doo-wopping on a Bronx boulevard, Amy Winehouse came into most Americans’ homes with the release of her second album Back in Black in 2006.…

Slept on Soul:  Cree Summer/Street Faërie By Michael A. Gonzales Having spent much of the cocaine ‘80s and early ‘90s inside exciting New York City clubs (CBGB’s, Wetlands Preserve) watching…

Sleepy’s Theme – ‘The Vinyl Room‘ by Michael A. Gonzales Producer/singer/songwriter Patrick “Sleepy” Brown wasn’t just inspired by yesteryear funk, the brother grew-up in the thick of it. As a boy, he…

Jesus Wept – P.M. Dawn by Michael A. Gonzales Back in the early 1990s, when so-called “realness” began reigning supreme over rap music, most anyone not subscribing to the sinister…

Still Looking Good, Bernadette Cooper by Michael A. Gonzales Although former Klymaxx singer, songwriter and producer Bernadette Cooper has never been anything like the women the Beach Boys harmonized about…

SLEPT ON SOUL! Madame X – Madame X by Michael Gonzales A look into the salacious, sultry, singin’, sista group Back in the 1980s the girl group tradition was still…

Slept on Soul: Prototype – Rachid by Michael Gonzales Coming tardy to the party, lately it’s been all about the Weeknd: continuously YouTube playing the video to his hypnotic “Wicked…

Editorial note: soulhead.com is proud to present our newest feature “Slept on Soul”. This new column will examine back in the day albums that fell between the cracks of the Black…