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Southern Soul
Critics' Highest Rated Southern Soul Albums of All Time
Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up on Me
87
critic score
(7)
Durand Jones
Wait Til I Get Over
87
critic score
(6)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Soul of a Woman
82
critic score
(24)
Mavis Staples
We Get By
79
critic score
(13)
Anderson East
Encore
78
critic score
(6)
Mavis Staples
If All I Was Was Black
78
critic score
(21)
Mavis Staples
We'll Never Turn Back
78
critic score
(10)
Al Green
I Can't Stop
77
critic score
(6)
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
Carry Me Home
77
critic score
(9)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)
76
critic score
(11)
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Users' Highest Rated Southern Soul Albums of All Time
Al Green
Greatest Hits
88
user score
(49)
Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
86
user score
(540)
Sam Cooke
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
85
user score
(139)
Otis Redding
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
85
user score
(379)
Aretha Franklin
Spirit in the Dark
85
user score
(88)
Aretha Franklin
Lady Soul
84
user score
(319)
Aretha Franklin
Young, Gifted and Black
83
user score
(103)
Al Green
Let's Stay Together
83
user score
(281)
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Now
82
user score
(171)
Otis Redding
The Dock of the Bay
82
user score
(143)
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Recent Southern Soul Albums
Durand Jones
Wait Til I Get Over
87
critic score
(6)
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Critics' Top Southern Soul Artists
Mavis Staples
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