WELCOME TO SIR SHAMBLING'S DEEP SOUL HEAVEN
Here you’ll find articles – some brief, some less so – on soul music and the artists who made it. Mostly concentrating on deep soul and southern soul recordings from below the Mason - Dixon line in the Golden Age between about 1960 and 1980 when the dreaded synthesisers began to take over. But like all the “rules” of the site, this one was made to be broken, and a lot of other sorts of black music have found their way here as well.
To help you find your way around the site:
Artists - an ever growing index that will lead you to biographies, discographies, label shots and, of course, the music from deep and southern soul artists - famous and not so famous. Sound files you can listen to or download are highlighted by this symbol 
Articles - Index of some reviews, articles and ramblings from Sir Shambling and various guest writers. These include small features on what this site is all about, a definition of the music highlighted here, who Sir Shambling is and a "thank you" list of friends without whom this site would not have been possible.
Links - Sir Shambling's favourite websites, record dealers, magazines and other friends of this site.
Contact Sir Shambling - leave your comments positive or not right here.
NEW!! Search - Search for artists, labels or anything or anybody else covered in this website.
NEW!! CD Reviews - a section highlighting CDs both old and new of interest to southern and deep soul fans.
Latest News
13 October - new artists added - Birmingham George, Morris Gardner, Billy Clark, Nate Adams and Paula West.
7 October - new artist pages added - Thrilling Dynamics, Henry Dixon, Margo White, Al Tamms and Ebonystic. There are also new CDs reviews added. The full list can be found here. I'm very grateful to Pete Nickols for his efforts.
30 September - new artist pages added - T C Lee, Barons Unlimited, Willie Mason, Shirley Karol and Lesa Stroud.
23 September - new artist pages added - Vickie Labat, Fredde Lowe, Ultimates Combo, Count Willie and Samuel T Robinson.
16 September - several new CDs reviews added. The full list can be found here. I'm very grateful to Pete Nickols and Kev Briscoe for their efforts.
9 September - new artist pages added - Bobby Dent, LH & The Memphis Sounds, Eugene Gaspard, Roger Hatcher and Othea George.
2 September - new artist pages added - A C Poston, Vicki Starr, Bennie Conn, Charles "Soul" Brown and Freddie South.
Additionally there are new CDs reviews added. The ful list can be found here. I'm very grateful to Kev Briscoe for his efforts.
19 August - new artist pages added -Mel Starr, Johnny Moffett, , Bill Brantley, Richard Wright and the Saints.
Additionally Pete Nickols has added a new article in our occasional Superstars of Southern Soul series - this piece is on the excellent singer Mighty Sam. You can find it here.
Pete himself has started a new blog entitled Deep Soul Direct. It's always great to welcome more coverage of deep soul onto the internet, and with Pete's very wide-ranging knowledge of the subject this new venture of his is sure to be essential reading. You can find the blog here. He has promised to continue writing for this website as well - for which I'm very grateful to him. There are a good few pages already uploaded to his blog - and very interesting they are too. So please do check it out. Good luck Pete!
12 August - new artist pages added - Soul Brothers, Symbols, Benny Hall, Willie Boyd and Bert Lynch.
5 August - new artist pages added - Exotics, Tommie Lee, Jessie Butler, Bobby Mack and Hot Ice.
29 July - new artist pages added - Art Wheeler, Bonnie & Sheila, Jesse Gee, Bonnie Floyd and Blue Heaven & The Cadillac Queens.
22 July - new artist pages added - Carl Bell, Vera Powell, Fabulous Tears, Lonzine Cannon and Bud Harper.
15 July - new artist pages added - Jessye Adams, Faith White, Betty Adams, Big Mack and Milton Westley.
1 July - new artist pages added - Leah Dawson, Dottie Clark, Eddie McGee, Elaine Armstrong and Johnny Soul.
24 June - several new CDs reviews added. The ful list can be found here. I'm very grateful to Pete Nickols and Kev Briscoe for their efforts.
10 June - new artist pages added - Janit & The Jays, Dee & Don, Uptights, Universals (2) and Johnnie Marie.
3 June - I've posted a new article in the occasional series of Southern Soul Heroes. This piece is one the fabulous Ella Washington and can be found here. The full list of articles can be found here.