PUBLISHER'S JUKEBOX: Syl Johnson

By Richard Meeker

For this week's installment of WW publisher Richard Meeker's weekly tutorial on shamefully neglected R&B artists of the '60s and '70s, Meeker walks the soul train tracks from Syl Johnson's "Any Way the Wind Blows"...
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..to Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black?"...
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...to Wu-Tang Clan's "Hollow Bones," which samples Johnson:
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