If you peg the golden age of Soul Music as roughly between 1957 and 1975, give or take, that takes in a staggering amount of great music: Ray Charles. Aretha Franklin. Otis Redding. James Brown. Sam Cooke. Jackie Wilson. Al Green.
And perhaps saddest of all, James Carr, who rose to prominence in the 1960’s.
Carr was considered by some the greatest soul singer of all, but he had a terrible burden: he was bipolar in an era when that condition was little understood and almost untreatable.
As a result he didn’t really record all that much with only two albums early in his career, one in 1967 and one in 1968.