Curtis Johnson and Samuel Jones Interviewer
Date: 6/30/2004 Interviewees: Curtis Johnson and Samuel Jones Interviewer: Jacob Rabinbach Location: Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, TN Collection: Stax Museum Oral Histories Notes: Interviewer: I’m going to have to ask you guys to speak up a bit because we couldn’t figure out – we don’t have the technology yet to have microphones for this thing, unfortunately. So we just gotta pick it up in here. I just want to say thanks for coming, I really appreciate it, I'm sorry you guys had to wait. I'd just like to ask, everybody, you know, what is soul music for you guys, how do you define it? Jones: Soul Music... It's gotta be from the heart, straight from the heart, you know, playing what you feel. And the way we did it here, to define soul, it was just everybody getting together and chilling, making it happen, with not a lot of arrangements, not a lot of sheet music. It was just like coming together and making it happen. Soul, you know, is just a certain feel, when you get those goose bumps and you know when it's there. [01:00] Interviewer: When was it there for you guys? Johnson: Well, we started doing background here at Stax, but we started in high school. We went to school together, and we started in high school with a little group, and we thought we had it together long before we really did. Interviewer: I think that’s how it is in high school.
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