One of the largest private collections of soul music has a new home.
A collection of 35,000 recordings of classic sweet soul music from Chicago have been donated to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis by the late Chicago DJ Bob Abrahamian s family. He died in 2014 at age 35.
A DJ with a passion for Chicago’s signature soul sound, Abrahamian grew up listening to hip-hop in the 1990s a time when samples dominated the genre, says Jeff Kollath, executive director of the Stax Museum. The museum is located at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis.
Curious to know where the samples came from, Abrahamian dug around thrift stores looking for the “deep soul, deep funk cuts that were being sampled,” Kollath says. Instead, he uncovered a treasure trove of group soul records made by independent labels.
Unique Collection Of Classic Sweet Soul Music From Chicago Finds New Home
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