SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE

Motown dominated sixties soul, there’s no denying that. Some contend that the greatest of soul music died with the end of that incredible decade of music. Backstabbers, released only a year after Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (1971), begs to differ. By the early seventies, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were at the center of a dream-team of writers and producers located in America’s first capital: Philadelphia. Together, Gamble and Huff were two of the most prolific and active members of Philadelphia International Records—the label that would come to represent the explosion of the Philly Soul phenomenon—and are responsible for having written and/or produced over 170 gold and platinum records…READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE