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As I mentioned last week I'll be making more 'specific themes' compilations. A fine example is today's "Soul Party Vol 49 - The Queens Of Tears", with 20 tracks about heartache and heartbreak by the greatest female soul singers, such as Gladys Knight, Candi Staton, Betty Harris, Aretha Franklin, Kim Weston, Esther Phillips, and several others.

This style of singing is very popular in Thailand. There's an entire sub-genre of Thai pop music known as "torraman", which translates to emotional torture, and it's interesting to go to Thai coffeeshops and nightclubs and listen to these female singers decked out in their ballgowns and glittery outfits wailing away about their unbearable aching hearts.

And today's "Assorted Recordings - Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Vol 04" gives you 20 outstanding recordings ranging from Smiley Lewis' Bee's Boogie, recorded in New Orleans for Imperial in May 1951, with Dave Bartholomew and Tuts Washington lending a hand, through to Professor Longhair's 1979 'Her Mind Is Gone'. Other fine blues/R&B artists featured today include Johnnie Taylor, Andre Williams, Billy Boy Arnold, Mercy Dee Walton, Tiny Grimes, Howard Tate, and Sam Moore.