{"id":2303398,"date":"2026-02-27T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303398"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:01","slug":"new-book-to-feature-profiles-of-key-soul-music-artists-60s-80s-living-life-fearless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-book-to-feature-profiles-of-key-soul-music-artists-60s-80s-living-life-fearless\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book to Feature Profiles of Key Soul Music Artists ’60s-’80s\u00a0 \u00bb LIVING LIFE FEARLESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars<\/em>,\u00a0a book written by longtime music industry executive Joe McEwen, is set to profile key great soul artists from the 60s to 80s. It will be published April 28, 2026, by ZE Books. It\u2019s available to order in the U.S. here<\/a>, in Canada here<\/a> and in the U.K. here<\/a> (where it arrives on June 11).<\/p>\n

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According to the press release, the book features what\u2019s \u201cvivid, compelling, up-front and personal profiles (predominantly written by McEwen while working as a music journalist in the 1970s) with a host of indelible figures: Pops and Mavis Staples, George Clinton, Allen Toussaint, Betty Wright, Michael Jackson<\/strong>, Gamble and Huff, Don Covay and many more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Philadelphia native and an A&R executive for Columbia, Sire\/Warner Brothers, Verve and Concord Music Group, McEwen gathers a lifetime\u2019s worth of encounters, essays and reveries into one radiant collection, a love letter to rhythm-and-blues and soul music,\u201d says the announcement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlongside these portraits of legends at the peak of their powers are heartfelt musings spanning the 1960s through the \u201980s, illuminating the creative processes behind the songs that defined a generation,\u201d says the press release. \u201cInterwoven throughout are reflections on basketball, memory and movement\u2014parallel sources of rhythm, improvisation and joy.\u201d The book culminates in an extended 2024 conversation with music author and longtime confidant Peter Guralnick (who has written books on Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and others), \u201ca fitting finale to a collection that captures the soul of a lifetime in music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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