Half the fun of hearing a collection like this one is discovering some obscure gems - on The Last Soul Company, such gems include Jewell Bass' seductive "Let Your Love Rain Down on Me," Power's remake of the Rascals' "Groovin'," and male singer Ona Watson's soul makeover of Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It." Obviously, a six-CD set is too much for the casual listener, but for the seasoned R&B fanatic, The Last Soul Company is a fascinating listen. Various The Last Soul Company - Malaco A Thirty Year Retrospective. Customer Service1 (800) 272-7936Main Phone1 (601) 982 - 4522Main Fax1 (601) 982 - 45283023 West Northside DriveJackson, MS 39213P.O. Over the years, Malaco Records and the Malaco studio dabbled in disco (one of this collection's most famous tunes is Anita Ward's 1979 disco smash "Ring My Bell"), funk and urban contemporary, but essentially, Malaco has remained a soul label with an interest in blues and gospel. Big Stuff" in 1971, Dorothy Moore's "Misty Blue" in 1976 and Z.Z. Rob Bowman's March 23, 2021, release, 'The Last Soul Company: The Malaco Records Story,' came to my doorstep in a pizza box-sized package that utterly bemused my poor postman, who is otherwise. This collection contains all of the hits that defined Malaco, including King Floyd's "Groove Me" in 1970, Jean Knight's "Mr. It's miraculous that the company survived long enough to have a 30th anniversary - small R&B labels have come and gone over the years, and Malaco itself almost went under at various times. In 1999, Malaco celebrated its 30 years in business with The Last Soul Company, a six-CD box set that spans 1968-1998 and ranges from the decent to the superb. When other black-oriented independents were putting out urban contemporary, rap and house music in the 1980s and 1990s, Malaco was the place you went to hear soulsters like Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle and Latimore and soul-minded bluesmen like Little Milton and Bobby "Blue" Bland. based on dozens of interviews, in the last soul company grammy award winning writer rob bowman weaves together the tale of a half century of malaco soul and gospel productions, discussing the careers and the hit records of such seminal malaco-based artists as bobby blue bland, z.z. This label continues to be a trailblazer for African American music and was termed the last soul company by Peter Guralnick, well-known music critic and screenwriter. But ironically, Malaco would still be in business long after Stax's 1975 demise, and it would continue to favor classic soul long after most labels had moved away from it. Since then, Malaco Records has become one of the oldest, independently run record labels in America. The Jackson, MS-based Malaco, like the Memphis-based Stax, focused mainly on deep-fried Southern soul in the beginning - only in 19, Malaco was a struggling young operation that was fighting to stay afloat. When Malaco Records started out in the late 1960s, the label that small Southern R&B companies looked up to was Stax.
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