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Article: SOUL SURVIVORS THE TRAIN'S BACK ON TRACK, PROVING THERE IS LIFE AFTER RAP.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 15, 1996
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``Al Green's Greatest Hits'' is about to go gold. Etta James' version of ``I Just Wanna Make Love to You'' is on the British Top 40 charts. ``Hot Buttered Soul'' man Isaac Hayes is a DJ on a top radio station in New York City. And the Fugees' remake of Roberta Flack's biggest hit, ``Killing Me Softly,'' has put the young hip-hop group at the top of several Billboard charts.
As Marvin Gaye asked in 1974, ``What's Going On?''
It's ``Soul Power,'' as predicted by James Brown in his 1971 hit.
After a decade dominated by hard-core rap, vapid R&B hits, depressed, alternative singer-songwriters imitating Nirvana and classic rock radio formats that ...