
Episodes List

Ep.1 Amazing Grace
Air Date: 2020-09-04
This first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement showed the whole world a successful, sophisticated image of black people, at a time when Motown musicians themselves were subject to the same treatment as any black American.

Ep.2 Say It Loud
Air Date: 2020-09-11
How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.

Ep.3 Sweet Love
Air Date: 2020-09-18
How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.