(Soul, Funk) VA - Mastercuts Soul Sessions - 3CD - 2007, MP3 (tracks), VBR 128-192 kbps

DISC 1:
1. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
2. Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers
3. Let's Stay Together - Billy Paul
4. Inside My Love - Cybil Fenton
5. Always & Forever - Heatwave
6. Even Though You've Gone - The Jacksons
7. All Night Long - Rietta Austin
8. Family Affair - Sly & Family Stone
9. Personal Reality - The Guidence
10. Boulevard - Tito Pukwana
DISC 2:
1. For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays
2. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
3. On My Own - Simone Trust/Gregg Holmes
4. Yu Ma / Go Away Little Girl - Marlena Shaw
5. Moving On - Terri Love
6. Venus Rise - Mozez
7. Sumthin Sumthin - Soul Sisters
8. Soul Train - Soul Sisters
9. Something Got A Hold On Me - Memphis Soul
10. Bullet - Harlem Nights
DISC 3:
1. Change Is Gonna Come, A - Bobby Womack
2. Save The Children - Gil Scott-Heron
3. Nothing Ever Easy - The Shufflers
4. So Hung Up On You - Billy Griffin
5. Givein' It Up - Barbara Stevens
6. Changing Season - The Misha Sextet
7. Hit Me - Darius P.
8. Little Bit More, A - The Supers
9. Let's Get It On - Graham Dee
10. Can You Handle It - Tyra Fox

This 3CD compilation racks up some of the great and good of the soul community. Unfortunately, they are mostly singing other people’s songs.
Billy Paul makes an appearance with a wholly unnecessary Al Green standard, while Bobby Womack does his best Sam Cooke impression with ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’. It’s a version that many people will already know, but few could ever truly prefer. Meanwhile, someone (not even worth naming) offers up such a truly heinous rendition of ‘Let’s Get It On’ that it actually made us quite angry inside.
There are a few fleeting gems though - courtesy of Gil Scott-Heron, The Isley Brothers and Sly & The Family Stone originals. But really, there’s very little here that any soul fan worth their Detroit/Philly salt wouldn’t already own.
Cheap and nasty, they shouldn’t even be allowed to print the word ‘soul’ on the cover… Junior Morris